"Gandalf on a white oliphaunt"
At the end of 'The Black Gate is Closed' Frodo says:
"I wish we had a thousand oliphaunts with Gandalf on a white one at their head"
Why does Frodo say "white one", since last he knew, Gandalf was Grey, not White?
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For forty days and forty nights
They rode through red blood to the knee
And they saw neither sun nor moon
But heard the roaring of the sea
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