[Hookbill the Goomba]

No one would have believed, in the last years of the Third Age, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of Valinor. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
Few men even considered the possibility of life over the sea. And yet, across the gulf of water, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Middle Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us!
Yet still, no one expected it to be in this form.
“I am Gandalf, feel my heat ray!”