GURPS LOTR Magic

[Gavynn]

Originally Posted by LemmingLord

Wow, you mean LOTR uses spell colleges like GURPS Magic suggests? Weird.

I don't think that it is weird at all. The Hobbit tells us:

Originally Posted by The Hobbit

“…Gandalf had made a special study of bewitchments of fire and lights…”

Sounds to me like a great excuse for some kind of magical colleges, or at least grouping spelling in some kind of specialization tree. Combine that with the nature focus given to The Brown Wizard and Saruman's specialization in the Arts of the Enemy, I have always thought it kinda fit right in.