User blog comment:Thornclaw Braveheart/Witch-king of Angmar vs. Eragon Bromsson/@comment-181289-20111129061937/@comment-2006360-20111130112012

Don't forget that Galbatorix had been impaled, and that's why he turned himself into a nuke.

Also, here's what many people, including myself have to say about why Gandalf doesn't show much power as a Maia: Like a Greek god's true form, it's possible that if Gandalf used his full extent of power, he might kill every living thing within a certain radius, and when in Minas Tirith, or in Moria, and there are mortal frends there, you don't want to do that. Now, that's just a hypothesis, mind you.