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HerenIstarion · 08-14-2002, 06:12 AM

If I read correctly some notins between the lines, movie forms an opinion that Gandalf let go out of his choice (as a sacrifice for the fellowship) and that was for the better, for he came back in power (and he knew it would be so). Some meditations on the subject:

if you are a wizard:

1 Sacrifice for your friends is valuable but when you don’t expect to be rewarded for it with new body
2 Otherwise it’s a suicide
3 Even if you don’t expect to get new body, than it’s suicide allright, for all other members of the fellowship are this side of the ruinedbridge
4 Suicide can not be appraised since it’s an act of refusing the service laid upon you as an emissary of the Valar

therefore, Gandalf letting go and falling would mean Gandalf defeated, and not by Balrog, but by his own weakness and weariness of the world. nothing to admire, really, though understandable with all his labors and sufferings.

Yet, as it was said above, that is the movie version, not as it was indeed

08-14-2002, 06:12 AM	#20
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	If I read correctly some notins between the lines, movie forms an opinion that Gandalf let go out of his choice (as a sacrifice for the fellowship) and that was for the better, for he came back in power (and he knew it would be so). Some meditations on the subject: if you are a wizard: 1 Sacrifice for your friends is valuable but when you don’t expect to be rewarded for it with new body 2 Otherwise it’s a suicide 3 Even if you don’t expect to get new body, than it’s suicide allright, for all other members of the fellowship are this side of the ruinedbridge 4 Suicide can not be appraised since it’s an act of refusing the service laid upon you as an emissary of the Valar therefore, Gandalf letting go and falling would mean Gandalf defeated, and not by Balrog, but by his own weakness and weariness of the world. nothing to admire, really, though understandable with all his labors and sufferings. Yet, as it was said above, that is the movie version, not as it was indeed __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!