03-24-2002, 12:17 AM | #1 |
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What color is Shadowfax in the books? I know I've seen pictures of the movies and he's white. But for some reason, I've always pictured him as being black. I know it's probably somewhere in LotR, but I'm too lazy too look.
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03-24-2002, 12:33 AM | #2 |
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In the books he's described as silverish-white in the daytime and grey at night, I think.
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03-24-2002, 12:47 AM | #3 |
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Ditto, FF.
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Maybe they made him a straight white in the movies because it would look kinda funny having a white rider on a greyish horse. I suppose it does look more impressive with a white horse and a white rider.
Wasn't Glorfindel the one with the white horse? (or Arwen in the movie)
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03-24-2002, 01:06 AM | #6 |
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Shadowfax was silver-grey.
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03-24-2002, 10:26 AM | #7 |
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an important point also
is that the grey shade would make him almost invisible at night....it added to his kingly status amongst horses, or thats how i read into it.
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03-24-2002, 10:49 AM | #8 |
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Silvery-whitish-greyish. I think I just made up a new color! Well, anyways, I don't think he would be black because Gandalf, while in possession of Shadowfax was white. Maybe the grey represents the old Gandalf the Grey. Just an idea.
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03-24-2002, 12:59 PM | #9 |
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I've always pictured him as black, too. I didn't even realize he wasn't until you mentioned it. I looked it up, and he's a silvery-whitish-greyish color. I was surprised, because I had like, totally skipped that entire page. I think Shadowfax should be black.
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03-24-2002, 01:31 PM | #10 |
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myself i always pictured him white/silver.
Just a thought but in the movie they could have used two horses a white-ish one for the day scenes and a grey-ish one in the night scenes.
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03-24-2002, 02:06 PM | #11 |
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I thought Shadowfax was black or grey because its name. For my suprise I didn't see what's written in the book! well now I know what's its colour.
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03-25-2002, 10:01 AM | #12 |
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How's this for an idea:
Shadowfax is white during the day because Gandalf is Gandalf the White. Shadowfax is grey during the night because Gandalf used to be Gandalf the grey. It's just an idea. Rosie~
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03-27-2002, 01:10 PM | #13 |
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"And Gandalf, too, was now riding on his tall grey horse, all clad in white with a great mantle of blue and silver over all, ..." RotK
"At that moment he caught a flash of white and silver coming from the North, ..." RotK Just a couple descriptive examples. An earlier name for Shadowfax was "Greyfax" (HoMe). |
03-30-2002, 05:44 PM | #14 |
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Yeah, I'm whitish-silverish-greyish-whitish...
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03-31-2002, 01:25 AM | #15 |
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Yeah, I always pictured grey-silver-white. I love the one in the movie!!!! I want it!
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03-31-2002, 09:23 AM | #16 |
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I've imagined him to be silvery-gray. No white, no shabby gray, but silver.
He seems too white in the pictures I have seen, but then again, nazgûl horses were actually brown, and Gandalf's robe was bluish, but they seemed like black and gray becouse of some element of the film. |
04-01-2002, 07:48 PM | #17 |
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i though he was black and look silver in the moon light.
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Shadowfax is silver. How do I come to this conclusion? When light reflects on silver it appears white. When there is no light, it appears grey. Wallah.
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Sounds good, RE. Problem solved
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04-03-2002, 01:03 AM | #20 |
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Always have imagined him as silver, kind of how RE described it. I think the horse playing Shadowfax looks fine though.
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