What did Gandalf mean with this expression?

>I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. You cannot pass.
Get bent.

Oh, you incorrigible scamp, you!

That actually means something? That's not just some random magical mumbo jumbo?

It means this:

well he is a caricature of the average fa/tv/irgin. Tolkien was way ahead of his time

It's in the LOTR books normie

Isn't Anor from Dark Souls though? Why is that in Lord of the Rings?

Cause Miyazaki Kojima copied all the fantasy books he read into his games.

I hate zoomers

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>wielder of the Flame of Anor

to this day nobody knows what gandalf meant by this, he was probably trying to scare away the balrog.

you know the movies were based off of books right? Gandalf is sort of explained to be an angel type being in the films anyway

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You people are so easy to get trolled.

He was having a stroke, the balrog just was dumb enough to use the thinnest bridge in all of middle earth

According to something I read, during Gandalf's fight with the Balrog in The Lord of the Rings, he says of himself that he is the wielder of the Flame of Anor. It is nowhere else referred to in the trilogy, so its particular meaning remains unclear. Anor is the Elvish word for the Sun, so literally the flame of Anor would have alluded to the light of the Sun, which had originated in the fiery fruit of Laurelin, one of the Two Trees of Valinor. Thus, Gandalf may have meant the power he gained as a servant (a Maia) of the Lords of the West, in defiance to the corrupted darkness of the Balrog.

Alternatively, Gandalf may have been referring to Narya, the Ring of Fire, which he wore and wielded, but it seems unlikely that Gandalf would want to reveal his ownership of a Ring of Power —a matter of utmost secrecy—to one of his greatest enemies. However, considering that the Balrog owed no allegiance to Sauron at that time, Gandalf may have been merely attempting to scare it away.

In Tolkien's earliest drafts, forms of this passage were variations on: "I am the master of White Flame. The Red Fire cannot come this way" (and one variation mixes in the idea of Black Shadow, too). These terms seem to be symbolic - white for the powers of good, but red or black for Sauron and his servants. As the text developed, the Red Fire and Black Shadow were lost. The White Flame remained, but developed into the more poetic flame of Anor. On this reading, then, the 'flame of Anor' doesn't refer to a specific thing, but is Gandalf's way of announcing what he stands for, or perhaps his power as a servant of the Valar.

>>Maiar helped to sing the universe
Only Valars did sing
Mayars were created by Valars as a minor spirits

Just to make sure, the concept of the "balrog" was invented by Lord of the Rings, right? I've seen characters named Balrog in video games like Street Fighter and Cave Story and I can't find any evidence that the balrog is some fantasy creature that existed before LotR. So those games are referencing LotR when they use that name?

I always thought it was because Gandalf knew deep down that Frodo would be the one to carry the ring, but he hoped that maybe the council would come up with a better plan. Frodo volunteers, like Gandalf dreaded he would, and it made him sad, despite him knowing it was their best chance.

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Mediocre.

>I was just pretending to be retarded!
Decades later, this is still true

Even if I'm actually retarded, it just makes you all the more retarded for falling for it.

"god I wish I had a cock up my ass"

The Ainur sang. The Ainur are made of the Valar and the Maiar. The Valar do not possess the capability to create any form of sentient being. That is reserved for Eru Iluvatar alone, and he made all of them from his thoughts.

>not "i could have a cock up my ass right now"

No, that would be this.

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Aule made the dwarves though, and Yavana the ents.

>I was just pretending to be retarded!
Centuries later, it's still true

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why is that person so muscular

They work out.

Gandalf the Grey is something like 2 019 years old when he dies and becomes Gandalf the White.

So if Gandalf was born in the year 0, he would become Gandalf the White this year?

I always thought it might refer to Glamdring.