2006-12-14 23:11:18 · 22 answers · asked by chris787782 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
they were both concieved through practicing bad hobbits?
2006-12-15 04:07:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
There is this scene scene where Gandalf is not wanting to go to Moria, but he lets the ringbearer decide. Gandalf probably knows what awaits him, and doesnt want to go through the fire even though he knows he will be victorious and rise again. He sacrifices himself for the final outcome. In the garden the night before going to the cross, Jesus prays to his father that if there is any way for it not to happen, then please take 'this cup from me'...but he knows there is not, and so goes anyway and sacrifices himself for all of humanity.
Tolkien's story is not an allegory like CS Lewis'. Instead his story contains little hints of similarities between his characters and Jesus. Gandalf is a little like Jesus, because he was sent to Middle Earth to help in the fight against evil. He died to save his friends and then came back to life.
2006-12-15 07:29:06 · answer #2 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
WHY do you have to get LOTR involved with Christianity. OR religion at all.
Leave religion out of one of the best series of movies ever.
He is not related to Jesus.
Jesus is believed to be real by many people, and of course some not.
Gandalf is fictional.
Plus Gandalf is cooler than Jesus. And Im sorry if that upsets a few of you. But Im not a follower of Christ. So live with it.
2006-12-15 07:20:30 · answer #3 · answered by Branwen 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Gandalf rose from the dead and saved a whole bunch of people in Middle Earth. Much like Aslan of Narnia.
2006-12-15 07:23:31 · answer #4 · answered by mithril 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gandalf the White
Jesus the White????
Wahoo!!!
2006-12-15 07:15:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are both fictional characters. The only difference is; Gandalf is believable...
2006-12-15 07:31:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both are of divine nature, but chose to share in the human condition, both are apparently vanquished and die, both come back from the dead to finish their tasks.
Gandalf is of course more in the heroic tradition of the antique Heros, like Herakles, who is a demigod and saves his people from great dangers, then dies and becomes immortal, but we know that in early Christian times, before the Church went all dogmatic about it, Jesus was seen as another form of Heracles and Mithras, and openly compared and identified with them as well.
2006-12-15 07:26:58 · answer #7 · answered by haggesitze 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are both Made UP FICTIONAL characters, although Gandalf had by far the best beard, and his staff was way cooler.
Mind you the old 'water into wine' would be a great super power to have!
hic hic
2006-12-15 07:14:38 · answer #8 · answered by Chris M 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The parallel between the two stories is clear to me.
Frodo is on a quest to complete a certain task. He wants to complete it on his own and becomes obsessed with his mission. He cannot succeed alone. His friend, who would die for him, aids him in doing what he knows he must, but can't.
Gandalf represents Christ on a white horse (Revelation) coming back to do final battle against evil.
I really have no idea if J.J.R. Tolkien was retelling Pilgrim's Progress, but it sure looks like it to me.
2006-12-15 07:27:49 · answer #9 · answered by nancy jo 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
cousin 7 times removed or something...dya think its a coincidence that all the weird questions bout jesus have a person called chris doing the asking?
2006-12-15 07:13:50 · answer #10 · answered by keeky.c 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cuz he died and came back to life. Frankly I think that Tolkien was a closet Pagan who said that to appease the Christians.
2006-12-15 07:31:03 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋