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Originally Posted by Irish Wolf
The trip may have been, as you say, unusually hazardous, but I'm pretty sure everything between the Lonely Mountain and the Shire has come to understand that attacking an old man in a grey robe and pointy hat is also unusually hazardous. They may not know the name "Gandalf" (or "Mithrandir"), or for that matter even have a language, but everything knows that that shape is dangerous.
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That brings up the delightful thought of the Mimic Wizard - a natural adaptation that imitates the form of the dangerous, yet rare, Wizard as a defensive measure, despite having all the magical potential of a peanut.