#mithrandir

I'm crocheting Gandalf as a gift, although I still need to make the setting.

The Journey Of Gandalf | The Ruins of Gondolin - Animated Lord of the Rings Short Film

Gandalf's Journey From Valinor to Middle-Earth Animated in the Byzantine Art Style.

Scenes :

Intro/Decay of the Two Trees of Valinor.

Gandalf/Olórin Gets Chosen as an Istari.

Crossing the Ocean From Aman to Middle-Earth.

Starting the Quest for Erebor.

The 3 Trolls Get Turned to Stone.

Escape From the Wargs & Goblins From the Misty Mountains.

Arrival in Mirk-Wood.

Fight Versus the Necromancer in Dol-Guldur.

Gandalf Studies the Ring in Minas Tirith.

Interrogation of Gollum in the Prisons of Mirk-Wood.

Gandalf Discovers the Ring With Frodo.

Fight Versus Saruman.

Fight Versus the Nazgûl on Amon Sûl.

Gandalf Fights Durin's Bane.

The Death of Gandalf & his Resurrection by Eru Ilúvatar .

Gandalf the White Meets Aragorn, Gimli & Legolas in Fangorn.

Encounter With the Witch King.

The Collapse of Barad-Dûr & the Shadow of Sauron.

“Ill i hevib a-thannad i garathab ilú i annen aphen”

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time given us.”

I’m about to turn 40, and the last several months have been spent thinking about what that means… understanding my reaction to my own mortality. This quote had helped me through the existential angst.

Sindarin translation is by Elaran from the Vinye Lambengolmor server on Discord.

Also: WHY IS THIS INK SO PRETTY!? 😭✨💝

I believe it’s DeAtramentis shimmering magenta or something like that. I only have a sample and i lost the label! Look at the copper shimmer!

EDIT: the ink is DeAtramentis Magenta Red-Copper

C-1 dip nib

Who said Gandalf was never pretty?

I have a really funny headcanon that the wizards didn't get sent as old men to Middle-Earth, but initially came as their Maiar forms and only began to age rapidly after getting addicted to smoking their precious barrels of Longbottom Leaf <3

This text is adapted from a random post I found online.

Imagine you are one of the Rohirrim, riding with Gandalf, feeling the anxiety of whether it is too late to save Helm's Deep and your King. As dawn begins to break, you hear the Horn of Helm Hammerhand over the nearby hills...

(Gimli blasts the horn while Théoden performs what he believes is his last charge, declaring, “Ride now! Ride for ruin and the world's ending!”) In that moment, when you hear the horn from a distant horizon, you know the fortress is not yet lost.

You arrive just in time... Mithrandir did not use magic to stun the Uruk-hai upon his charge; he used nature and his sense of time to ensure the sun was in the right place at the right time. For an ancient entity who has existed for over 7,000 years, he understands time better than anyone when he declares,