Welcome to Know Your LotRO Lore, a new weekly column here ... Originally, the name "Gandalf" was to be used for another of Tolkien's characters: a Dwarf who we now know as Thorin.

I don't expect Lotro (as ... the range of characters you can play is rather limited -- the playable races are only the 'goodies', so you can only be a human, a dwarf, an elf or a hobbit.