Gandalfish
English
Etymology
Gandalf + -ish
Adjective
Gandalfish (comparative more Gandalfish, superlative most Gandalfish)
- Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Gandalf from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
- 1980, Brian Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 156:
- It has an Aragorn figure called Gwydion, a Gandalfish wizard called Dallben, a dwarf named Doli, […]
- 1986, Jan Hokenson; Howard Pearce, editor, Forms of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Third International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 36:
- The archetypical instance is Ralph Bakshi's film Wizards, in which, at the final duel between the Disneylike good wizard and the Gandalfish evil wizard, […]
- 1999 September 16, Ola Lundgren, “Re: The Character of Sauron?”, in alt.fan.tolkien, Usenet:
- IMHO it would be a disaster to make a sort of Gandalfish wizard out of Sauron, with black robes and all the other Evil Accessories (tm).
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Synonyms
- Gandalfesque, Gandalfian