When I was a little kid, I thought Gandalf and Dumbledore were the same person, meaning I didn’t just think the same actor played them, I thought they were the same wizard. Well, I quickly ...

Most notably, Gandalf bore similarities to two mythological figures. The first was the wizard Merlin from Arthurian legend, and the second was Odin, the king of the Norse gods. By combining ...

If you were making a league table of famous fictional wizards, Dumbledore and Gandalf would probably be pretty big contenders for the top spot. So why, after actor Richard Harris passed away in ...