Fair point but I rewatched fellowship recently and I never noticed that, yea gandalf has smoked himself into a stupor, he can't remember shit the whole movie. I see now that his player had to kill him off cuz he went to rehab, and once he was clean he came back and was like...oh I never read these spell sheets, I'm so damn powerful bro.

Immediately casts prestidigitation 30 times to clean robes, beard and hair

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

If you haven't read it, this is explored somewhat in "DM of the Rings": https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612

... although, I myself cannot recall how they explained Gandalf's resurrection.