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Why does Gandalf say hes walked this earth for 300 lives of men (~21,000 years), when the wizards only arrived 3,000 years ago?

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Why does Gandalf say hes walked this earth for 300 lives of men (~21,000 years), when the wizards only arrived 3,000 years ago?

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Gandalf (then known as Olorin) first set foot on Arda (the Earth) not long after its formation, which indeed took place about 21,000 years before LotR.