What's the point of wizards in movies? they can cast spells like nothing...

What's the point of wizards in movies? they can cast spells like nothing? why didn't Gandalf just kill everyone with his powers?

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He was forbidden to except in certain situations. The idea is that Middle Earth is supposed to save themselves and Gandalf and his kind are primarily there as guides. You can think of Middle Earth and its denizens as a big simulation that has to play out on its own. The programmer has a policy of extremely situational intervention. The Istari are there to guide the simulation along favorably and only in Mount Doom when Illuvatar throws Gollum into the lava to destroy the ring does "God" really directly intervene.

Tax policy

Not forbidden. They just had a capped mana bar. Gandalf was given an extension when they resurrected him. And he still used it sparingly

This is why you should never introduce an all powerful being into your universe. Look at these half assed reasons for Gandalf and Eru not intervening more
>I can only help this much
Bunch of arbitrary bullshit

This. It's literally just "I can't show you my final form even though there is no higher being that could punish me if I did so"

I bet you’re fun at parties...

No argument I see

This. It's like when you write conflict into your story when no one could punish you if you did so. Like seriously, stories need to stop having conflict, it's not like the antagonists could reach out of the pages/screen and strangle the writer.

>stories need to stop having conflict
What else then?

>durr what is sarcasm

>using sarcasm on the internet where nobody can tell if you are being sarcastic or not

There is a higher being that can and does punish them though. Saruman is explicitly rejected from going home to Valinor because of what he did, so he's basically condemned to wander around Middle Earth as a lonely spirit. It would be like if you were from Heaven and then you fuck around on Earth and you're barred from ever returning to Heaven and you just have to sort of sit around on Earth forever as a lonely incel when back in Heaven you were a Chad. My real issue with these things in these stories is when you KNOW for a fact an all powerful God and Heaven equivalent exists, no faith in anyway required, why in the fuck would you ever side against them?

>being this autistic

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This is such a r*ddit response

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>you KNOW for a fact an all powerful God and Heaven equivalent exists
There are people irl who believe God exists and they do irredeemable things anyways.

>*tips*

Kys fedorafag.

The creations of Eru are explicitly shown throughout the books though, everyone knows that a higher power is real. People in real life have never actually seen God or anything close resembling proof

That doesn't matter. There are people irl who believe God exists and yet do bad things. Do you think the angels who turned against God didn't know he existed?

>This is why you should never introduce an all powerful being into your universe
This

I know the feeling. Though I'd rather do things through benevolent avenues, I'd gladly murder every subversive in my country along with the innocent members of their immediate families.

It's not the same, belief isn't a rigid thing, there are moments when their faith is weaker and ultimately they know there's no tangible proof of their beliefs.

I disagree

What is this, LOTR Online?

LotR: Battle of the Middle-earth II or I i don't remember both were pretty good

In the books being a wizard is more about knowledge and not having superpowers or do Jedi tricks. The Lord Of The Rings rpg managed it well.

Battle for Middle Earth 2 I think

Gandalf was there for guidance. And he did use his powers several times.

Gandalf isn't all powerful, and I don't think he really held back most of the time either. Magic just doesn't work like in more typical modern fantasy. He's certainly not holding back when he duels the Balrog, or when he's driving off the Nazgûl, or when he heals Theoden. He's not just a hands-off guide either, he constantly interferes and directs the efforts of Men, giving them council and not outright rejecting leadership when it is given to him, like after the battle of the Pelennor Fields, when Aragorn insists that Gandalf lead them. It's also likely that he'd have been able to beat the Witch-King of Angmar; at least he made his intention to do so clear.

I'm not sure where this "he cannot show his true power" thing really comes from. He's not a valar; he's not about to wage a War of Wrath on Sauron and break Middle-Earth like they did Beleriand.