Clear some shelf space, dust off your old extended cuts of The Lord of the Rings, and get ready to take your collection up a ...

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Ian McKellen’s Gandalf the Grey. 1:6 scale statue derived from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Created by the same artists and craftspeople who worked on the film! Looking as mysterious as ever, ...

Reflecting on the fact that the name "Grand Elf" will stick leads to the slight tweak of "Gandalf," the name The Stranger already senses will be his fate. The "mystery" of Gandalf's identity in ...

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The Rings of Power‘s “The Stranger” is Gandalf, the most beloved wizard in all of The Lord of the Rings. How did we finally learn his true identity in the season finale? In a very silly ...

In the eastern lands of Rhûn, the Stranger (Daniel Weyman) has finally assumed the name of Gandalf along with the mission to stand up to Sauron and Ciarán Hinds’s mysterious “Dark Wizard.” ...

After almost two seasons of speculation – and so many hints it was starting to become overload – we know now he is Gandalf after all. He encounters the Dark Wizard in the finale who hints that ...

There’s a lot to cover, starting with the confirmation that The Stranger is, yup, Gandalf the Grey… I was relieved that you didn’t stick with “Grand Elf” because I was thinking ...

Gandalf says something similar later to the council that has gathered to decide what to do with the One Ring: “He is his own master … If he were given the Ring, he would soon forget it ...

Please verify your email address. Readers and viewers of The Lord of the Rings are introduced to this character as Gandalf the Grey, a powerful Wizard who travels throughout Middle-earth.