Character from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
A wizard who wandered from his mission to save civilization because he fell in love with hedgehogs and birdsong — his neglect of duty is also a kind of wisdom Saruman could never understand.
Radagast speaks to animals more fluently than to people and frequently loses the thread of conversation when a bird passes overhead. He is absent-minded about politics and urgent about a nest of baby thrushes. His information is invaluable — his bird and beast network spans all of Middle-earth — but extracting it requires patience, because he delivers intelligence wrapped in anecdotes about foxes. He is not stupid; he simply has different priorities. He can be startled into focused urgency when the stakes penetrate his pastoral fog.
A disheveled figure in earth-brown robes stained with grass and sap. Bird droppings on his shoulders. Wild brown hair and a weather-beaten face with kind, distracted eyes that focus on things others cannot see. Twigs in his beard. Surrounded by birds and small animals.
Also known as: Radagast, Radagast the Brown, Aiwendil