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Gandalf v Dumbledore....who'd win in a fight?

  • 11-12-2013 10:44pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭


    My flatmates and I are are just rewatching The Hobbit in preparation for the sequel. Somehow we started debating whether Gandalf or Dumbledore would win in a fight and we can't reach a consensus. I'm saying Gandalf hands down but any opinions would be helpful! Also, just came across this website, fantastic time waster: http://whowouldwininabrawl.com/

    Who would win in a fight? 72 votes

    Gandalf
    0% 0 votes
    Dumbledore
    100% 72 votes


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Nerds


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    I'd rather watch two female porn stars mud wresting in the nip


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,239 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Rincewind would beat them both

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,674 ✭✭✭elefant


    Dumbledore is just a repackaged Gandalf without a horse.

    Also, Gandalf died and came back to life. Dumbledore just died.

    Obviously Gandalf wins every time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Rincewind would beat them both

    Nah, he'd bugger off while they were fighting ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Both are hard to defeat.

    Gandalf the Grey died and came back as Gandalf the White

    Dumbledore died and came back as Michael Gambon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    Nerds

    A statement of fact. What are we to do with this information?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    I don't want to be boring or offensive but in my head it's just nerdy. Too nerdy. And I'm surprising myself by being a bit judgemental! Now what being nerdy really is and why it's a negative to me is up for debate - I'm going with the oul' social conditioning myself.

    So yea... that's my opinion on this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    They wouldn't fight. They would form a magical crime fighting duo. Gambledore or maybe Dumbledalf.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    A statement of fact. What are we to do with this information?

    Get laid


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    I reckon dumbledore in a magic fight,

    but gandalf in a straight up fistfight.

    and who would resort to fistfights when magic was available


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭astonaidan


    Awful lot of cool kids throwing the nerd word around, surely time for a get a woman comment, ah see its been done, well done boys :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Picard would win.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    astonaidan wrote: »
    Awful lot of cool kids throwing the nerd word around, surely time for a get a woman comment, ah see its been done, well done boys :rolleyes:

    So who would win the fight then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    Depends on what the author decided.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    Get laid

    I don't get it. You want me to take the information that these guys are nerds and somehow use it to get laid?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 645 ✭✭✭loveBBhate


    Gandalf would box the head of 'em.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    I don't get it. You want me to take the information that these guys are nerds and somehow use it to get laid?

    Exactly


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 580 ✭✭✭JumpShivers


    Dumbledore, just cuz Harry Potter's better. <3:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,561 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Links234 wrote: »
    Nah, he'd bugger siddle off while they were fighting ;)

    ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭Phoeey


    If Dumbledore's so great then how come he's dead?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    Phoeey wrote: »
    If Dumbledore's so great then how come he's dead?

    Loads of great people are dead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    Technically, Gandalf should win, I think.
    I dunno if Eru (basically the supreme being in LotR) would resurrect him constantly, though.

    Plus magic is very different in both worlds. LotR is low fantasy style magic. Whereas Harry Potter has death curses, teleportation, etc.

    Would also be based on powerful Gandalf is. If he's in LotR mode then he might lose, a lot. But in Maia form, he'd hand Dumbledore his arse ten times over and be back in time for lunch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,072 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Emma Watson is hot


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 240 ✭✭Pai Mei


    Technically, Gandalf should win, I think.
    I dunno if Eru (basically the supreme being in LotR) would resurrect him constantly, though.

    Plus magic is very different in both worlds. LotR is low fantasy style magic. Whereas Harry Potter has death curses, teleportation, etc.

    Would also be based on powerful Gandalf is. If he's in LotR mode then he might lose, a lot. But in Maia form, he'd hand Dumbledore his arse ten times over and be back in time for lunch.

    What are this??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    Pai Mei wrote: »
    What are this??

    http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Maiar
    Singular is Maia.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,997 ✭✭✭Degag


    Technically, Gandalf should win, I think.
    I dunno if Eru (basically the supreme being in LotR) would resurrect him constantly, though.

    Plus magic is very different in both worlds. LotR is low fantasy style magic. Whereas Harry Potter has death curses, teleportation, etc.

    Would also be based on powerful Gandalf is. If he's in LotR mode then he might lose, a lot. But in Maia form, he'd hand Dumbledore his arse ten times over and be back in time for lunch.
    Dumbledore had the Elder Wand though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭astonaidan


    So who would win the fight then?
    Gandalf since he cant die as hes not from the plane off middle earth


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    Degag wrote: »
    Dumbledore had the Elder Wand though!

    Yes, had.
    Draco had it and we all know how Gandalf manipulates young men like Draco or Frodo


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,272 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Cohen the Barbarian
    On his first appearance in the series he is already an old man, but still tough enough to handle anything the world can throw at him; his opponents often underestimate him because of his age, realising too late that a man who does for a living what Cohen does and nevertheless survives to such an age must be very good at it indeed.

    Gandalf takes this up to eleven

    'three hundred lives of men i have walked this earth and now i have no time'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Gandalf


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭SparkySpitfire


    Strictly physical fight with no magic:

    Gandalf v Richard Harris Dumbledore = Gandalf

    Gandalf v Michael Gambon Dumbledore 2.0 = Dumbledore

    There's something about Dumbledore 2.0... like he'd be an eye gouger or something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Godzilla with the Mekons would fist them to death with Dan Dare shouting encouragement from his rocket ship.

    FFS.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    I preferred the harry potter movies to the lord of the rings movies (books as well actually) so probably gandalf as it is easier to spell this time in the morning.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    Dumbledore, only because LOTR is the biggest pile of shíte I've ever been forced to watch.
    and the books are even worse, for once.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    SV wrote: »
    Dumbledore, only because LOTR is the biggest pile of shíte I've ever been forced to watch.
    and the books are even worse, for once.

    BTW, the LotR books were basically just a way to show of his English degree or whatever with his Elven languages and Dwarven, etc all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭SweepTheLeg


    SV wrote: »
    Dumbledore, only because LOTR is the biggest pile of shíte I've ever been forced to watch.
    and the books are even worse, for once.

    No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭rustedtrumpet


    Only one way to sort it out.

    THUNDERDOME


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭rustedtrumpet


    P.s Dumbledore has a vicious ket habit by the way, probably half way to china after the lines he horses into him


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    No.

    Yes. Everything about it is awful.
    Loved by the neckbeard fedora wearing type.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭dr strangelove


    Only one way to sort it out.

    Celebrity Deathmatch

    FYP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    FYP

    God I wish that was still on..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭rustedtrumpet


    FYP

    Please don't do that... as suggested, only one way to settle this

    THUNDERDOME


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Dumbledalf.

    I woke my boyfriend up at 2am laughing at this!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭SweepTheLeg


    SV wrote: »
    Yes. Everything about it is awful.
    Loved by the neckbeard fedora wearing type.

    I'm none of those things, and I doubt the academy who awarded the movies 17 Oscars are either!

    But I get it, different strokes and all that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭dr strangelove


    Please don't do that... as suggested, only one way to settle this

    THUNDERDOME

    Celebrity Thunderdome.....?

    Dunno, sounds crazy.
    SO crazy it might just work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭sinead88


    Nerds

    For the record, I'm genuinely not a total nerd. I enjoy the outside world, have plenty of friends, partake in nights out every weekend etc. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wondering who would win in a hypothetical fight. Tiger vs Grizzly bear is another favourite conundrum.


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