He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford.

May 28, 2019 · Gandalf the Grey, long before the events of the Hobbit, finds himself in a strange new world. He soon meets Dumbledore, and quickly earns a job. How did he get here?

Gandalf is a protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien 's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He is a wizard, one of the Istari order, and the leader of the Company of the Ring. Tolkien took the name "Gandalf" from the Old Norse "Catalogue of Dwarves" (Dvergatal) in the Völuspá.

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Corey Olsen (born August 16, 1974), also known as the "Tolkien Professor", is an American teacher and podcaster, best known for his work in new media promoting the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and medieval literature. [2]

Gandalf, known largely as the Grey and later, briefly, the White, and originally named Olórin (Quenya), was an Istar (Wizard), dispatched to Middle-earth in the Third Age to combat the threat of Sauron.

There comes to Bilbo’s door one morning a wandering wizard (Gandalf) and thirteen dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, the descendent of dwarf kings. Tolkien shuns satire as frivolous and...

May 15, 2021 · Gandalf the Grey, long before the events of the Hobbit, finds himself in a strange new world. He soon meets Dumbledore, and quickly earns a job. How did he get here?

Apr 30, 2022 · Given that Professor Tolkien put great care into his work, such an assumption about a central character like Gandalf, seems hasty. A moment of consideration might reveal something about the...

Oct 12, 2021 · Gandalf operates similarly to a teacher who engages in classroom experiential learning. I describe the concept in more detail in my 2019 presentation at the Chestnut Hill Harry Potter Conference, but, in essence, the teacher acts as a facilitator while students try out the concept on their own.