Who is your favorite wizard?
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- GandalfTheFey
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Who is your favorite wizard?
Fantasy isn't very fantastic without magic. Faeries, Elves, Wizards, and what have you. Wizards tend to be very powerful magical practitioners, and can effect a story greatly. Can't make them TOO powerful, but can't make them too much of a joke or else they are... I don't know, maybe a magician? Something undesirable, anyway. But often wizards are the best characters! Anyway, let's get down to business.
For me personally (beside Gandalf) I would have to say Merlin and Schmendrick are tied. Merlin is the original badass, but Schmendrick is a lovable ponce with potential, and I have read The Last Unicorn more times than Once and Future King (yes some call him a magician, but in my heart I believe him to be a wizard by the end.)
So who is your favorite Wizard? And why?
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Besides him Professor McGonagal, my favorite member of the Hogwarts staff.
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You know what? I have never read this series. Checking it out, the first books sample on Amazon is beyond cromulent. I will rectify this shortcoming!Erick1853 wrote:Um. All the people you all have named would be crushed by the one any only Sorceress. Perenelle Flamel from "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" Which I did a small review on.
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I have the paper books, but didn't read them yet.Erick1853 wrote:Um. All the people you all have named would be crushed by the one any only Sorceress. Perenelle Flamel from "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" Which I did a small review on.
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I've recently read 'Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris' and you can see the character that Gandalf is based on in that and he's not very nice, although he is useful just like Tolkien's version.
You know Gandalf sent the dwarves to wake up Smaug as a strategic ploy to prevent Smaug making an alliance with Sauron, even though he had NO idea if the dragon would be killed and he didn't care how many people died in the aftermath.
There's also his screwing over of the Shire in lotr's which he kept from the hobbits less they decide to go back home and help their people. Gandalf is a General like Xavier in the x-men, you might need him but that doesn't mean you should like him.
I'm going to go with Raistlin from the dragonlance series , he's a great character with understandable motives and its great he doesn't get sentimentalized like other characters. And yes i admit he also is a tool like Gandalf, in fact much worse than Gandalf but at least he's not disingenuous . Right from the start you know he'd sell you down the river in a heart beat and its nice to know where one stands .
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