Gandalf is a fraud?!

[alatar]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

What I can't work out is whether the original poster, this Lord Kimboat fellow, is joking or not. I mean, his argument sounds deliberately far-fetched, the sort of thing alatar comes up with.

Huh? I really must work on my reputation.

Is he just an idiot? Or has he successfully pulled our collective leg?

Or, like some here, is he stirring the pot, winding up those of us who will fanatically defend Tolkien at all costs, regardless of the silly statements we have to make (at times) in order to do so?

What better fun than to see a straw man thrown into a hornet's nest?