Ivan Krasko (actor)
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Ivan Ivanovich Krasko was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and writer. He was named a People's Artist of Russia.
Krasko in 2015
Gandalf
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Gandalf, in longer form Gandalf the Grey and later Gandalf the White, is a protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He is a wizard, one of the Istari order, and t
Gandalf (right) turning trolls to stone in a detail from one of J.R.R. Tolkien's drawings for The Hobbit
Gwaihir the Eagle rescues Gandalf from Orthanc. Scraperboard illustration by Alexander Korotich, 1981
Tolkien said that Der Berggeist by Josef Madlener was the origin of Gandalf.
Väinämöinen as depicted by Akseli Gallen-Kallela in The Defense of the Sampo (1896)