can you describe his looks?
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when does gandalf return as the white wizard UNANSWERABLE who is he? He is a protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" - wizard, one of the "Istari" order, and the leader and mentor of the Fellowship of the Ring. where did his name come from? The author took the name from the Old Norse "Catalogue of Dwarves" ("Dvergatal") in the "Völuspá". is he known by other names? Yes, several including Mithrandir, Tharkûn, Olórin and Bladorthin.
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Gandalf [SEP] Appearance
Tolkien's biographer Humphrey Carpenter relates that Tolkien owned a postcard entitled "Der Berggeist" ("the mountain spirit"), which he labelled "the origin of Gandalf". It shows a white-bearded man in a large hat and cloak seated among boulders in a mountain forest. Carpenter said that Tolkien recalled buying the postcard during his holiday in Switzerland in 1911. Manfred Zimmerman, however, discovered that the painting was by the German artist Josef Madlener and dates from the mid-1920s. Carpenter acknowledged that Tolkien was probably mistaken about the origin of the postcard. An additional influence may have been Väinämöinen, an old and wise demigod and the central character in Finnish folklore and the national epic "Kalevala" by Elias Lönnrot.