"Late in life Tolkien described Gandalf the Grey as a figure strongly built with broad shoulder, though shorter than the average of men and now stooped with age, leaning on a thick rough-cut
sta as he trudged along . . . Gandalf’s hat was wide-brimmed (a shady hat, H. p. 14)13 with a pointed conical crown, and it was blue; he wore a long grey cloak, but this would not reach much below his knees. It was of an elven silver-grey hue, though tarnished by wear – as is evident from the general use of grey in the book [i.e., in The Lord of the Rings] . . . But
his colours were always white, silver-grey, and blue – except for the boots he wore when walking in the wild . . . Gandalf even bent must have been at least 5 ft. 6 inches . . . Which would make him a short man even in modern England, especially with the reduction of a bent back.
(These comments come from an essay Tolkien wrote circa 1970 in response to seeing Pauline Baynes’ art for a poster-map of Middleearth)

Мне от такого "слова бога" аж Стругацкие вспомнились:"он как-то даже ростом приуменьшился: сначала был на полголовы длиннее, а через минуту смотрю — змеиное молоко! — он уже снизу вверх на Гепарда смотрит, седенький такой старикашка среднего росточка".)))