Carpe Diem # 111 - Staff, Walking Stick

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What we found looks almost identical to this image.

Found a Shillelagh
[Walking staff or stout weapon?] in
My mother-in-law's house

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This stout walking stick
Hand-me-down from her father
An Irish relic

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As a fib

This
Old
Walking
Stick handed
Down generations
Is it full of fight or magic?

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When writing The Hobbit in the early 1930s Tolkien gave the name Gandalf to the leader of the Dwarves, the character later called Thorin Oakenshield. The name is taken from the same source as all the other Dwarf names (save Balin) in The Hobbit: the "Catalogue of Dwarves" in the Völuspá The Old Norse name Gandalfr incorporates the words gandr meaning "wand", "staff" or (especially in compounds) "magic" and álfr "elf".

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Gandalf Mithrandir
Great staff-wielding wizard
Source of Wise Council

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

  -  Gildor Inglorion

As a haiku

Do not meddle in
Gandalf's affairs for he is
Subtle and Testy

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Carpe Diem # 111