User blog comment:Sport Shouting/Gandalf vs Voldemort/@comment-2222810-20110808173556

Gandalf takes this. Voldemort is powerful for a human, but Gandalf is more than human, he is a higher order of being, with knowledge of and pure power far beyond Voldemort. The only reason Voldemort can even seem more poweful is the way the sotry are written, Tolkiens magic is much more subtle than the Rowlings, Rowling magic is very close to the surface you say a spell and it does a very specific thing where as Tolkine writes it so like say Saurmon speaks and takes control of you and you may not even know it. The Killing cirse isn't going to do Voldemort any good becase gandalf can shield himself from it, and it's shown multiple times that the curse can be stopped by some kindo f barrier, Gandalf has been working against evils greater than Voldemort for many times longer than Voldemorts been alive, The Balrog, The Witch-King and Sauron himself are Gandalfs enemys and frankly they make voldemort seem rather pathetic by comparision.