a thing that will forever amuse me is the movie fandom's depiction of the relationship between gandalf and pippin. like "haha old man is annoyed by younger man" is funny on its own but what most of them don't know is:

gandalf is an entity, an angelic being taking up human form who is older than time itself. pippin 'i exist to spite god' took is like 17. this is a teenager constantly fucking up an ancient being.

pippin is the biggest minor inconvenience in gandalf's life.

Pippin:

honestly the funniest thing about the lord of the rings is how gandalf is literally a minor god sent to middle-earth by The Big Man Himself and yet literally nobody apart from the elves seems to recognise this or take him seriously

like yeah gandalf is pretty grumpy most of the time but how would YOU feel if you were the fantasy equivalent of an angel and a bunch of people who only come up to your knee were just like “oh fuck it’s that spooky old wizard” every time you showed up for a friend’s birthday party

I mean to be fair, he seems to actively enjoy the hobbits’ complete lack of awe, because what Gandalf loves most about hobbits is that they as a culture are 1000% unimpressed by any of the mythic-scale bullshit constantly going on right outside their borders. The thing Gandalf loves second-most about hobbits is their weed.

What gets on his nerves is the rest of the free peoples of middle earth, for whom he is constantly busting his ass and who consistently respond to his attempts to help with “why don’t you ever have any good news?” and also who don’t offer him any weed.

Gandalf: *chilling in Bilbo’s garden*

Tiny Frodo: *softly* hey

Gandalf: hm?

Frodo: I have something for you

Gandalf: oh?

Frodo: *gently puts a snail in his hand*

Gandalf: what’s this

Frodo: a friend :)

Gandalf: I’ll treasure him

I’m picturing Gandalf saying this as like. a solemn oath