Which film does gandalf die

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There has been debate over whether Gandalf could have died again either in battle or by some other means. It is a pointless debate because Gandalf never again faces anything comparable to a Balrog. Have you read our other Tolkien and Middle-earth Questions and Answers articles? Your email:. I also always felt that the departure from middle-earth was a type of death. When I read of their departure, I should have felt happy but I felt sad because I knew their friends would never see them again.

And as readers we would never know what happened to them. This Website does not collect personally identifying information for the sake of processing user data. Org earns commissions from qualifying purchases. Skip to content. Where in the story does this event occur? Q: When Does Gandalf Die? I enjoyed reading it. Thank you. Welcome to Middle-earth, Goldie.

I am so glad to see you here. Are There Female Orcs in Middle-earth? Did J. Tolkien Invent Orcs. Tolkien, ] So when Gandalf confronts the Balrog on the Bridge of Moria he faces a real and deadly danger. But he realizes the Quest is in peril and so sacrifices himself to ensure their escape; he falls from the bridge and fights the Balrog, but is himself killed.

Yet he returns and is enhanced in power and clothed in white. The question is by whom: "For in his condition it was for him a sacrifice to perish on the Bridge in defence of his companions, less perhaps than a mortal Man or Hobbit, since he had a far greater inner power than they; but also more, since it was a humbling and abnegation of himself in confirmity to 'the Rules': for all he could know at that moment he was the only person who could direct the resistance to Sauron successfully, and all his mission was in vain.

He was handing over to the Authority that ordained the Rules, and giving up personal hope of success. So Gandalf sacrificed himself, was accepted, and enhanced, and returned. I was Gandalf. When he speaks he commands attention; the old Gandalf could not have dealt so with Theoden, nor with Saruman. He is still under the obligation of concealing his power and teaching rather than forcing or dominating wills, but where the physical powers of the Enemy are too great for the good will of the opposers to be effective he can act in emergency as an 'angel' - no more violently than the release of St.

Peter from prison Gandalf really 'died', and was changed: for that seems to me the only real cheating, to represent anything that can be called 'death' as making no difference