Timeline for Does Gandalf need to eat, drink, and sleep?
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| Feb 3, 2017 at 18:46 | comment | added | DCShannon | @Po-ta-toe I don't have the references on hand, and I imagine you went to some effort to come up with this, so there's no reason to think I'd find anything better. Just pointing out that being "able to hunger" is not the same as "needing to eat". | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 5:51 | comment | added | user46509 | @DCShannon feel free to add your own answer with supporting arguments. | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 0:12 | comment | added | DCShannon | So he at least feels hunger. Still doesn't mean he would die if he stopped eating, which is what I would consider "needing" to eat. | |
| Feb 2, 2017 at 19:47 | history | edited | user46509 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2015 at 17:16 | comment | added | Ender | Talk about walking a mile in someone's shoes eh? | |
| Sep 5, 2015 at 12:23 | comment | added | user46509 | That's why four of the five fail their mission. It's a tough gig | |
| Sep 5, 2015 at 12:22 | comment | added | zxq9 | So he really felt fear, loneliness, hunger, weariness and other aspects of human hardship when doing all this insane stuff by himself for hundreds of years, end on end. With this in mind it is hard to imagine a more badass character. | |
| Sep 5, 2015 at 5:49 | comment | added | user46509 | @JonathonWisnoski he does to. He allows the fellowship to sleep through in Moria for instance. | |
| Sep 5, 2015 at 4:15 | comment | added | Jonathon |
Which in practice probably means that Gandalf could go an unnaturally long time without sleep or food, through shear force of his noble spirit, though he would suffer hunger and exhaustion thorough all of it.
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| Sep 4, 2015 at 18:47 | comment | added | Nerrolken | +1. I can practically hear Tolkien anticipating questions like this as he writes "real and not feigned." | |
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| Sep 4, 2015 at 18:36 | history | answered | user46509 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |