Why did Gandalf only use magic once? When he turned the trolls into tone. Do his spells have a six movie cooldown?
He didn't turn them into stone you fucktard, what a waste of trips.
>>63066465
Alrighty then
>>63066444
Why didn't he just the his giant eagles to fly the rings to the mountain from the shire and safe everyone the journey?
>>63066496
>movies
in the book he just distracted them during sunrise
trolls turn to stone in sunlight
i thought this yesterday whilst watching the EE of BOTFA
>>63066444
>he turned the trolls into tone
>>63066498
He planned to, but the rest of the fellowship were fucking retards.
When he faced the balrog, and fell, he literally told them "Fly, you fools" Which meant go to the eagles, but they misinterpreted it as "run away"
>>63066556
>>63066556
Yo senpai baka lol I was like thinking this too like why this nigga not using his magic more like he out of mana or sum shit baka desu senpai
>>63066444
he used it more than once you casual fgt
>>63066444
Sigh
Do I have to list all the spells he cast, again?
He made a boulder out of thin air in AUJ
>>63066583
All I know of is he used turn to stone once on the trolls
and once he used magic to turn his smoke into a boat
>>63066608
Light from staff
Stun blast on goblins
pyrokinesis
aura shield vs wraith sauron
telepathy
...
more in LOTR
>>63066496
>>63066444
He cracked the stone with his staff so the sun could shine on the trolls and turn them into stone. FFS its painfully ovbious.
>>63066444
This isn't Harry Potter, wizards have subtler powers in the work of Tolkien.
>>63066569
This guy gets it.
Would trust those little yards with the master plan?
>>63066569
>>63068755
And the rest of them know how to find and contact the eagles how?
>>63068267
This magic is weak as shit in lotr which is saying something compared to how weak and shit magic was in HP. HP strongest spell is basically a glorified gun with guaranteed headshot affect that any nigger could learn. Remind me again why Voldemort was so scary and strong and what the elder wand would of let Voldemort do that he couldn't already do? Did it give his glorified gun homing capabilities or maybe multishot?
>>63069740
>he doesn't know about fiendfyre
Voldemort could've destroyed all of Isengard and its army with one spell. Gandalf was a shit wizard.
>>63069740
Not everything needs to be like videogame RPGs where magic is just a glorified ranged weapon.
>>63066496
See >>63066531 and >>63068142. The trolls were turned to stone by sunlight, all he did was keep them distracted till it rose
>>63066496
Did the movie make it seem like he could turn night to day or something retarded?
>>63069740
Harry Potter spells require line of sight to actually work. They shoot out of the wands like laser blasts. The death eaters would get rekt by modern day military weaponry.
>>63066531
How come the trolls in return of the king don't turn to stone in sunlight?
>>63070216
They're a different breed or something.
>>63070216
Saruman bred orcs and trolls. It was pretty sick.
Why did these weird creator gods of middle earth invent wizards in the first place and send them down to aid the higher races when their powers were so shit and limited?
>>63071052
Would you impregnate a femtroll?
why did tolkien die like a bitch?
>>63070216
Big Blinky sends out a thick set of ash clouds from Mt Doom to block the sun when they marched on Gondor. Gandalf mentions it in RotK after they lose Osgiliath. It's shown again at the part where you see the Nine attacking the retreating cavalry. They just didn't make it super dark because of filming requirements I suppose.
Goblins and orcs aren't supposed to travel in sunlight either. That's what made Saruman's half-orcs who could so fucking scary.
Of course, they all seemed to forget about that in the hobbit movies except in the case of the three trolls so that was disappointing.
>>63071520
do they exist?
>>63071587
>implying he's dead
>>63068267
except for that part in the hobbit where he throws a fireball at the goblins
>>63071629
he literally lit a coconut or pinecone or whatever on fire. granted the fire was magical but it wasn't a d&d fireball that just shoots from his palms.
gandalf is probably insanely strong in terms of magical potential, at least equal to sauron if not stronger, but his stipulation is that if he uses his magical powers to directly affect the mortal realm he loses them. so he can, say, use magic to crack a slab of rock so sunshine can turn the trolls to stone, but he can't speed up the sunrise or conjure sunlight or anything like that.
pretty clever character when you think about it, unfortunately that doesn't come through in the movies so well since the full extent of his power is never mentioned. in the movies he just comes across as a guy who can do magic tricks.
>Middle Earth will never be real
>>63070216
Those were Olog-hai, Sauron's own supersoldier project. They were bigger, meaner and could handle sunlight.
>>63071810
This is OP as fuck m8
https://youtu.be/AFybGO6lO9U?t=23s
>trolls turn into Tone
>they eat all the gabagool
>mfw
>He uses his staff as a flashlight
>Speaks to a bug
>Attacks Saruman with a spell ( that spell simillar to the force in star wars)
>Can be heard thousands of miles away to reply to Saruman
>Sets the king of Rohan free of his spell
No, he doesn't use magic fucking retard
>>63066569
Reddit-tier fantheory. Old and gay
>>63071859
ik senpai, ik
>>63069810
"no"
>>63066496
Somebody didn't pay attention to FOTR.
>>63071810
Gandalf is strong for sure but sauron is definitely stronger
>>63072634
i had a dream that i was literally riding glaurung and fighting ancalagon last night
it was epin
Tolkien was bad at showing rather than telling. sauron never appears despite the hype, we never exactly get why the one ring is so powerful besides restoring saurons power, and neither saruman or gandalf use magic in the books
Gandald uses the magic of his ring, Narya, in every scene he interacts with other people.
