Gandalfish

English

Etymology

From Gandalf +‎ -ish.

Adjective

Gandalfish (comparative more Gandalfish, superlative most Gandalfish)

  1. Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Gandalf from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
    • 1980, Brian Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 156:
      It has an Aragorn figure called Gwydion, a Gandalfish wizard called Dallben, a dwarf named Doli, […]
    • 1986, Jan Hokenson, Howard Pearce, editors, Forms of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Third International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 36:
      The archetypical instance is Ralph Bakshi's film Wizards, in which, at the final duel between the Disneylike good wizard and the Gandalfish evil wizard, […]
    • 1999 September 16, Ola Lundgren, “Re: The Character of Sauron?”, in alt.fan.tolkien‎[1] (Usenet):
      IMHO it would be a disaster to make a sort of Gandalfish wizard out of Sauron, with black robes and all the other Evil Accessories (tm).

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