Gandalf Ushers in the End of a Legendary Journey The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Here, at last, on the shores of The Sea comes the end of our Fellowship.

Gandalf is a character synonymous with the movie adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The wizard is played by the legendary Sir Ian McKellen, a role for which he ...

Gandalf is a divine spirit clothed in a mortal form. In Middle-earth parlance, he’s a creature known as a Maia (plural: Maiar). The Maiar are sort of like demigods, in that they serve a higher ...

“In my books, death means something final, or at least an irreversible change. But in The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf comes back stronger , which dilutes that sense of danger,” he added.

Fantasy author George R.R. Martin credits the death of Gandalf in “The Lord of the Rings” with how he handles his own book characters. The “Game of Thrones” author, 69, spoke about the J.R ...

In a 1954 letter J.R.R. Tolkien explained further what happened after Gandalf’s death. In “ Letter 156 ” the author suggested the ultimate god of his fantasy world, Eru Ilúvatar, did ...