The Tramp/Wizard Link

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

One may in fact not be a tramp as I have never seen him clutching two litres of Special Red nor begging money with menaces, but he hangs around all day, in a slightly dreamlike state, drifting in and out of the Co-op and Thorntons like a tall, hairy fairy.

As it happens that was me. I was trying to find your office to take you for a quick lunch...or is that supper....dinner? Luncheon? Tea? (What kind of a people name a meal after a drink, anyway?)

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Fordim

As it happens that was me. I was trying to find your office to take you for a quick lunch...or is that supper....dinner? Luncheon? Tea? (What kind of a people name a meal after a drink, anyway?)

A hard-drinking people

Have you got a long beard, long hair, tweed jacket with greasy elbows and a faint whiff of cider about you?

It certainly wouldn't be supper anyway - you don't see me for dust come 4 or 5pm...

Originally Posted by Hookbill

Perhaps there is a connection. The term 'to tramp' and 'tramping' is used in The Lord of the Rings several times to describe wandering around in the open for long periods of time. Gandalf most certainly did this, having no fixed abode and this is often one of the criticisms made of him.

Let us not forget, also, that one of Wormtongs' insults to ol' Gandalf is "... and you, the most beggar like of them all..." Which suggests that wizardry and tramp...ery?... were connected in some way. Or was it perhaps just Gandalf's lifestyle? Radagast the Brown can't have been that much better; living in the forest and all. And as for the Blue wizards, who can say.

In conclusion...

Gandalf should shave his eyebrows a bit...

You see, this is proof positive that we should all be kinder to tramps! Next time one of 'em goes "yergotfiftypeeferracupoteamate!" we ought to be aware as they may be secret bearers of firey rings....errr....

The Blue Wizards are the ones who scream obscenities at the pigeons...I'm just not going to go there with regard to the Brown Wizards...