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Date Posted: 07:11:37 08/12/00 Sat
Author: Mariah
Subject: Gandalf
In reply to: steve 's message, "a note on the sealing of sauron's fate a year before the ring was even recovered!..." on 23:00:21 08/11/00 Fri

One strange thing about my version of the game was that Gandalf was not one of the players.

There was Frodo, and Sam Gamgee, and Sauron, and the Black Riders, but Gandalf was curiously absent.

The symbolism always being that Gandalf was to be found in the game if one looked at me, having designed the game in such a way to allow the Hobbits to succeed in their humble attempts to destroy the ring in the end.

> I don't know if you have read any of te alternative
> stuff from the lord of the rings trilogy, but tolkien
> had enough notes and incomplete stories for about 25
> books, and these notes and stories have been analized
> by chris tolkien, his son, and he has presented many
> of them in book form for..still incomplete with
> comentary on what was going on from what he knew...and
> an intresting side note that should have been included
> in the books was a long conversation between frodo and
> gandalf in minis trith(gondor)after the fall of sauron
> when they where waiting for the marrige of ewon and
> aragorn...
>
> When Gandalf had was first on his way to the shire
> in the first time in 30 years at the begging of the
> hobbit, he had allot on his mind...he had entered
> dolth gor in mirkwood, and confirmed his suspicions
> that the necromancer was actually Sauron retaking
> shape and gaining power...as has been noted, when in
> the dungeons of Dolth Mor, he found thain, the father
> of thorien oakshield, wwho had given him the key and
> map to eabor...the fallen dwarven hall which was held
> by the Dragon Smaug, since then, he there was a
> meating of the white council, which saurmen, who they
> knew not at the time was evil yet, still presided
> over...Gandalf wanted to take imediate action against
> Sauron, for he feared that he would emerge in full
> strengh eventually and attack Lorien and Riverdell
> imdeiately from his hold in Dolth Gor...even these two
> powerful elven fiefdom's could nnot withstand the full
> wait of the Dark Lord if he where present, for his
> power alone was as great if not greater then all the
> Istari(the 5 wizards who where gods in the flesh of
> whom Gandalf and Saurmen where of there numbers)for he
> was pure spirt now and not bound by flesh, also, the
> Istari where not premited to match strength with
> strength against Sauron, for the pursuit of power was
> deamed corrupting to the gods, as case with we see
> what happened to Saurmen...but also of concern was
> Smaug, this great dragon could storm and rout a hold
> on his own, as was seen with eabor...he feared that
> Sauron, being the squir of the fallen Melekor(the
> devil)and his chief agent had dominion over all things
> evil, and would wrestle comand of smaugs action by his
> will...now Gandalf was a seer also as gadrial was,
> while not as great...he only recived impressions and
> the impressions of a young Hobbit burned in his mind
> that he had met 30 years before when he was but a
> child, of course this was Bilbo...but he did not no
> why he was drawn to this Hobbit, so his journey was
> two fold in comming to the shire, to relax in the
> quietest place he knew and ponder smaug, dolth gor,
> and sauron before the white council reconvined(because
> Saurmen had sucsessfully swayed the council to simply
> wait suaron out with his voice, being he was the
> master of ring lore, he knew sauron would call to the
> ring and it would resurface when he was ready, and he
> was surching with the plantir no one knew he had, in
> hopes of capturing the ring for himself and replacing
> the dark lord...at this time being merely a counciler
> and not a tyrant as he was to become, the power and
> enchantment of saurmens voice was so strong that he
> could even sway Erlond Halfelf to control him)so
> Gandalf needed to plot how to engadge Saurmen to try
> and win his plan of imediate attacl on Dolth Gor into
> action...plus, he wanted to see what had become of
> this Bilbo his thoughts where drawn to. By chance, he
> ran into on the road, the haughty Thorin Oaksheild(at
> this time Gandalf did not know what he held was the
> Key and Map of Eabor...for he did not know the man he
> ran into in Dolth Mor was thain oakshield, thorin's
> father...he talked with Thorin for a while because
> thorin was seeking his council...Thorin Told him of
> his plan to take back Eabor, and contend with
> Smaug...this idea seemed good to Gandalf, because he
> would both deal with Smaug and provide a Northren
> shield for Gondor in the restablished Dwarven hall so
> that it could not be caught in a crossfire between
> Dolth Mor and Morder...he figured this was Saurons
> plan that after he destroyed Lorien and Riverdell with
> his northren forces in Dolth Gor and the aide of
> smaug, he would turn on Gondor, and Rohan and put them
> in a squeeze after he restablished Morder...if smaug
> was not defeated and eabor restablished, regardless of
> whether or not Sauron found the ring, he would rule
> the day...but this chance meeting on the way to the
> shire set into effect a chain of events that would
> lead to Saurons ultimate undoing and the salvation of
> middle earth...Gandalf realized that bilbo must be key
> to all of this in some odd way, so he convinced Throin
> that he must Take Bilbo with him...before even going
> to see bilbo...now when bilbo was young, he was
> athletic for a hobbit and loved Gandalf, for he wanted
> to see the world, but bilbo had grown fat and happy
> with teh shire life, and this was almost everyones
> demise...
>
> ...now when thorin met bilbo, this now fat, lazy,
> bumbling hobbit, he thought Dandalf was mocking him
> and playing a joke at his expense, but Gandalfs
> efforts would rule the day...from listening to Thorin,
> Gandalf had pieced togther the meaning of the map and
> key, and who it was he had meant in the pits of Dolth
> Gor...he revealed these things and thus restored
> Thorin's cofidence in him, while still reluctant, he
> heeded Gandalfs advice that they would fail if he did
> not take Bilbo with him...of course, as you know this
> would prove more then right...
>
> Windfall for all number one: Biblo uncovers the ring
> from Gollum under the mountain...even though Gandalf
> was not sure of what it was for 60 years or so, in
> doing this, he kept the ring which was seeking to
> reveal itself to Sauron's call from Sauron, and latter
> of course it proved that under Gandalfs guidence, the
> ring would be undone and the power of sauron broken.
>
> Windfall for all number two: While Gandalf was away
> with the forces of Erlond and Gadriel dealing with
> driving Sauron out of Mirkwood, Bolbo would use the
> ring to infiltrate Eabor and detect smaugs weak point
> in his belly..this would lead to smaugs death by the
> black arrow of Bard, and the restablishemnt of the
> kingdom of the Dale and Eabor.
>
> Windfall number three: Many years latter, Saurons
> forces where divided in the north after he had retaken
> Dolth Gor, and his forces in Morder where limited to
> gaurding it's gates and could not go full force
> against Gondor...his forces in the north where divded
> fighting Lorien, Riverdell, and Eabor and the Kingdom
> of the dale which where restablished...had Eabor not
> been restablished, even if Lorien and Riverdell still
> stood and smaug was never defeated, but remained
> neutral, without Eabor and the dale kingdom in his
> way, sauron could have used half of his forces to cut
> of rohan and gondor and put gondor alone in a
> sandwhich...Gondor would have fallen, and they never
> could have marched on Morder, which drew Sauron's
> interoir forces away from San Grath and the Dark
> Tower, leaving the crack of doom open for Frodo and
> Sam to take the ring to it's destruction.
>
> Thus, the sealing of the fate of Sauron was settled
> in large part by a chance meeting between Gandalf and
> Thorin many years before the trilogy ever took
> places....
>
> THIS ACCOUNT IS FROM MEMORY, AND NOT QUITE PERFECT,
> BUT CLOSE TO IT...

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Re: Gandalf -- steve, 14:12:36 08/12/00 Sat