Dear Uncle Danny, My friends and I debate at length which fantasy world is better… Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. I personally argue that Harry Potter is practically plagiarism. The differences between Gandalf and Dumbledore are almost non-existant. Can you help settle the issue once and for all?
~Hobbitsrockmysox
Dear Hobbitsrockmysox,
You are correct when you say that Dumbldore is a knock off of Gandalf. However, you could say that Gandalf is a knock off of Merlin. In fact all of the lineage of these fine wizards can be traced back to Moses. He was the original and most powerful of all. I never heard of Gandalf, Dumbledore or Merlin parting the Red Sea and freeing a ton of people from Egypt and leading them to the promised land.
True Sauron was quite a formidable foe, but really… he could go absolutely nowhere. He was a tower with an eye on it. This really shouldn’t have been a challenge to Gandalf. If he had the power of Moses, he could have flooded Mordor in the same manner that Isengard was flooded. It wouldn’t have even been a fair fight.
Most of Moses’ power was passed straight to Merlin through a type of magical epoch infusion. This is where magic remains dormant in the genes of a wizard until time comes where it must be released in full force to combat evil. It is similar to a zip drive on a computer. It condenses magical power into the genes for tight storage.
Unfortunately when Merlin’s power made it to Gandalf, he had trouble activating the epoch genes. It may be because he had developed a liking for the halflings pipe weed. None of this is certain, but when this power was passed down from Gandalf to Dumbledore, most of the gene power had been squandered. This is why you see little difference between Gandalf and Dumbledore.
So in the end you get a couple of wizards who appear similar and powerful in many ways, but fail when they are compared to Moses and his child prodigy Merlin. So the next time you bring up this argument, take the side of Moses. He roles a natural 20 everytime and no others can compete with him.
I hope this answers your question. I think it does…..GO MOSES!!!!!
LMFAO, awesome. Pure awesome. P.S. you spelled Sauron wrong… LOL
Thanks for the heads up. I just fixed it.
What about the Wizard Whitebeard from the Where’s Waldo books? Where does he fit in?
You are wrong about Sauron. He was the strongest magician in Middle Earth in Second Age. In third age he couldn’t walk or even kill anyone, but existing just as an eye and he could see anything and control all mordor army.
sauron had physical form, but he chose not to leave his throne, but instead spread his influence passively. Gandalf and all of the Lord of the Rings are based in German myth and are actually far from Merlin. and to say that Moses is a wizard is actually heretical. Moses had no power himself, all he had came from God
But…they all have beards!
Hmm… if we want to exclude the allegorical nature of Moses’s powers, Moses was a human who got his powers from god, when god seemed fit to endow him with such. Gandalf, in the literature, was one of the Istari, who are actually more or less angelic beings from heaven sent to middle earth to confront Sauron in human form, as was Saruman. So I say Istari>human. Otherwise, you may say that Gandalf and Moses may have been one of the same since there are such parallels between Tolkien’s literature and the biblical literature which suggest it.