I have always thought the wizard's staff analogous to the musician's instrument. Not the source of the power but the means to it's execution... which is not to say that the staff is merely a stick.... I remember my violin teacher could make my grot-box sound good while her beautiful italian violin could make me sound a whold lot better ...
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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