[HerenIstarion]

Gandalf's father's name was also Gandalf. He was Gandalf Gandalfsson. But don't you think he was named after his father, nay, he was named after his grandpa, who also was Gandalf. In fact, to be honest, all Gandalf's ancestors were named Gandalf, and those were counted up to 337 generations. Proper way to address any Gandalf was to list all his ancestors by name, so, to show one's politeness one had to say "Gandalfsson" 336 times. All of the family was invloved in piano bussiness, they had their advertisement slogan, which read as follows:

"Gandalfsson family - makers of fine pianos with a magical sound since Thingol was known as Elwe!"

Our Gandalf took the word "magical" of this slogan too literally and became a wizard, instead of becoming a piano master. The Gandalfssons dissaproved of the "betrayal" as they named the event, and took to calling him names, such as Mithrandir (with the meaning of "dirty grey vagabond") and Olorin (dreamer, with the implied meaning of one away from the real world) and Incanus (one gone south, i.e. cracked)

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[ December 03, 2002: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ]