How is Gandolf like Jesus?

Question

I have to write a paper on this.

Answer 1

both have long grey hair and a beard.

Answer 2

Isn't Ian McKellan g*y?

This could possibly be a comparison.

Answer 3

Both are sacrificial heroes...and both come back to life again after descending into a pit.

Answer 4

Gandalf you mean?  

What paper do you mean?  Toilet paper?  As we say these days...

Answer 5

both were underestimated,  I like the answer about falling in the pit

see God tube Gandolf talks about redemption.  He defeats the hellish creatures  dying as it were  and is raised.  He also rides a white horse leading his army into battle  which is a bit like Armaggedon

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?vi...

also see

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread....

both inspired Vegi Tale Story

Answer 6

Gandolf is great, but who the h**l is that Jesus?  

Answer 7

The children love him....maybe because they are childlike and unpretentious.

Answer 8

Both of them Sacrifice themselves to save their friends..

Both of them return from the dead transformed.

Both of them turn up in the nick of time to turn the course of a battle between good and evil,, (Okay Jesus hasen't done this yet, but I think he is supposed to..)

But Jesus never smoked a pipe and he loathed hobbits. Jesus and the Apostles often went out Hobbit-Bashing. (It's very sad really)

Answer 9

1. Perform miracles which are recorded in a book that many people read and re-read, but there is only anecdotal evidence to confirm it.

2.  Are killed by a dark force, but after descending into a pit of darkness, they defeat the evil and are resurrected.

3.  Both frown upon people who do too much "pipe-weed"

4.  Hippies in the 60s found them both fascinating, and had songs written for them (examples: "Spirit In The Sky" for Jesus, lots of Led Zeppelin for Gandolf..

5.  Both can readily recognize evil where others do not see it.

6.  Both want to help the down-trodden.

7.  Both choose only males as traveling companions

Answer 10

Omigod. This question got some seriously AWESOME answers.

I like the one about the beard and gray hair =p

Cheers.

xx

Answer 11

wise, self-sacrificing, beard and hair, holy power, transfigured

Answer 12

They're both fictional, both rose from the dead, both are pretty kick-***....

Answer 13

They are both fake!

Answer 14

Whoa.  Gandolf is way cooler and more interesting than Jesus.  I don't draw any parallels.  

Answer 15

He led the Fellowship of the Ring, just like Jesus leads Christians. He also "died" and later "came back to life" like Jesus. That's the best I can come up with.