Posted by Jan den Breejen on December 22, 2001 at 05:58:35:
Gandalf: a reflection of Tolkien’s psyche?
Tolkien’s character Gandalf is an idiosyncratic wizard, alarming in his abrupt transitions between geniality and crankiness. Gandalf seems to match Oldham’s Idiosyncratic Style of character (same as Claudio Naranjos enneatype E5 (subtype) , Millon’s schizotypical personality, and MBTI’s INTJ type). I wonder; could Gandalf reflect’s Tolkien’s own character in some way? Tolkien’s world, the people living there, their names and talk styles are rather ‘different’ and a bit detached, even when compared with Harry Potter’s fantasy world. Tolkien seems to be a ‘thinker’ (rationalist); his fictional worlds don’t offer such things like romantic love or sensitive, lovely, understanding (‘feeling’ in mbti) women.
Jan