![]() ![]() Which makes it so much weirder that An Unexpected Journey was made almost 11 years after the first Lord of the Rings movie was released. Read an interview with Steven about creating collectibles and about sculpting the life size Gandalf the Grey.Martin Freeman in 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' It was sculpted by Steven Saunders and created by the same artists at Weta Workshop who worked on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The Life Size Weta statue of Gandalf the Grey is a 6ft fibreglass statue in a similar pose to our 1/6 scale Gandalf the Grey statue. The Hobbit impresses Thorin Oakenshield little upon their first meeting, but, despite his misgivings, the Dwarf knows enough of Gandalf to credit him with good reasoning, and indeed it will not be long before Bilbo Baggins’s mettle is tested and the Wizard’s wisdom proven. Needless are none of the acts of the Wizard, so when he counsels Dwarf-king-in-exile Thorin Oakenshield to enlist the services of Mister Bilbo Baggins as a burglar in his quest to reclaim his birthright from the dragon Smaug, it is done with a keen insight into the sheltered Hobbit’s qualities and an understanding of how crucial these will be to their success. Where Middle-earth’s lords and kings brood over the fortunes of their realms, Gandalf’s gaze is cast across a wider canvas and it is the greater good of all the world’s free peoples that he is concerned with. Gandalf is old beyond reckoning and wise the reach of mortal men. His fireworks may delight many a Hobbit youngster, but the Grey Wizard is no mere magician or trickster. Wandering Middle-earth’s winding paths is the travelling conjurer Gandalf, known by many names to many peoples in many lands, though few could guess the true extent of his powers or purpose. Weta announced Gandalf The Grey Life Size (1:1) Statue
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