Very bold of us all to assume Gandalf has a gender and adheres to the modern gender binary
pippin at 3am: pretty fucked up that we assume gandalf is a man. they’re a maia. merry? wake up merry. listen. they’re sexless.
gandalf at 3am: I identify as Tired, peregrin took
The Silmarillion makes it pretty clear that the Ainur in general do have specific genders:
Therefore the Valar may walk, if they will, unclad, and then even the Eldar cannot clearly perceive them, though they be present. But when they desire to clothe themselves the Valar take upon them forms some as of male and some as of female; for that difference of temper they had even from their beginning, and it is but bodied forth in the choice of each, not made by the choice, even as with us male and female may be shown by the raiment but is not made thereby.
But again, this only applies to the Valar and Maiar in general; Olorin/Gandalf as an individual is still open to interpretation.























