What color of Wizards would you like to see?
White, with a tan beard.
Tan with a brown beard.
Grey with red beard.
Red with a black beard.
Steve
Tan with a brown beard.
Grey with red beard.
Red with a black beard.
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Kind of off topic, but where did you find out the names of the Blue Istari? Unfinished Tales identifies them only as blue, and passing off into the east.Bruce N H wrote:Well, there's Saruman the White, Gandalf the Gray, Radagast the Brown, and Alatar and Pallando the Blue.
Need I say more.
Oh, it would also be cool to have a blue hat with moon and stars like Mickey in the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Bruce
On topic, I like the idea of having a Gandalf style wizard, with grey robes and a tattered hat. Majisto and Dumbledore looked to polished and affluent, in my opinion.
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C'mon, Bruce! You of all people should know better! From the page with Gandalf's introduction in the Fellowship of the Ring...Bruce N H wrote:Gandalf the Gray
So there.On page 48 of the 50th anniversary edition, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote:At the end of the second week in September a cart came in through Bywater from the direction of Brandyywine bridge in broad daylight. An old man was driving it alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf. He had a long white beard and bushy eyebrows that stuck out the brim of his hat. Small Hobbit-children ran after the cart all through Hobbiton and right up the hill. It had a cargo of fireworks, as they rightly guessed.
Frankly, I'd rather not have more pointy hats. Wizards, sure. But those things are virtually useless to me.
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Definitely red wizards and black wizards. Although we sort of have these already, it would be nice to get a more readily available red wizard's hat and new 2x2x2 slope print for both of them.
Tan, white, and light grey would all be wonderful as well. Just think of the pieces!
Also, maybe some new beard molds, similar to RedBean's? They could be used for chieftains, dwarves, and warriors as well as wizards. That may be too expensive though. New beard colors, at least, would be a must, even if we didn't get new shapes. Brown, black, and tan at the very least.
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Tan, white, and light grey would all be wonderful as well. Just think of the pieces!
Also, maybe some new beard molds, similar to RedBean's? They could be used for chieftains, dwarves, and warriors as well as wizards. That may be too expensive though. New beard colors, at least, would be a must, even if we didn't get new shapes. Brown, black, and tan at the very least.
I know! I always think it's kinda funny when I see a review of a Gandalf with a blue hat, and the review says 'you got his hat color wrong'. Although, I'm not quite sure Bruce didn't know that.Shadowviking wrote:On page 48 of the 50th anniversary edition, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote:. An old man was driving it alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf.
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Yeah, he probably did... but I've been wanting to do that for a long time!smcginnis wrote:I know! I always think it's kinda funny when I see a review of a Gandalf with a blue hat, and the review says 'you got his hat color wrong'. Although, I'm not quite sure Bruce didn't know that.Shadowviking wrote:On page 48 of the 50th anniversary edition, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote:. An old man was driving it alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf.
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The names of the Blue Wizards are not truly official. They appeared in the old ICE MERP (Middle-Earth RP) books, and were kind of adopted unofficially. In the core material, Tolkien never names the Blue Wizards, as you say.Kind of off topic, but where did you find out the names of the Blue Istari? Unfinished Tales identifies them only as blue, and passing off into the east.
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Well... I think a transparent wizard would be kind of cool, some elemental mage or what-not. Maybe a whole bunch of them; transparent red for fire, blue for water etc...
And NO pointed hats!
And NO pointed hats!
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Hey,
On the Blue Wizards, the names Alatar and Pallando were "official", in that they were written by Tolkien, but they never reached publication during his life, so you may call that "unofficial". I don't have my books with me, but it was either out of Letters of JRRT or Unfinished Tales. Wikipedia indicates it was from UT, but I'll dig out the books when I can to confirm this. Hmm, Wikipedia also says that alternate names, Morinehtar and Rómestámo, were given in Peoples of Middle Earth. I have to admit that I never read that -- I stalled out about half way through the whole History of Middle Earth 12 volume set and never even bought the last couple of them.
You may have been thinking of the Witch-King, whom Tolkien never named, but was named in ICE materials.
Bruce
On the Blue Wizards, the names Alatar and Pallando were "official", in that they were written by Tolkien, but they never reached publication during his life, so you may call that "unofficial". I don't have my books with me, but it was either out of Letters of JRRT or Unfinished Tales. Wikipedia indicates it was from UT, but I'll dig out the books when I can to confirm this. Hmm, Wikipedia also says that alternate names, Morinehtar and Rómestámo, were given in Peoples of Middle Earth. I have to admit that I never read that -- I stalled out about half way through the whole History of Middle Earth 12 volume set and never even bought the last couple of them.
You may have been thinking of the Witch-King, whom Tolkien never named, but was named in ICE materials.
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I would like a wizard that did not have a wizards hat. Perhaps something different than the usual European Folklore design, with those beards and pointed hats.
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