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Originally Posted by Essex
as DaveM said, Gandalf took the moral choice (as I pointed out about 6 months or so, but great minds think alike Dave, LOL!)
Mansun, if Gandalf had gone after the Witch King and defeated him (sending him packing, but not killing him as the Propehcy foretold) - then Middle-earth would have been lost....
Refer to my earlier posts on this - this thread is a very good read but I'm afraid it's mostly all been said before...........
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Gandalf took the moral choice? Of course he did - but that does not mean it was necessarily the right choice. At the time, the choice was finely balanced, Gandalf was undecided & his instinct was to protect Minas Tirith from the WK, & for that knobody could blame him if he did go after the WK. In the end he had to rescue (after intense persuasion from Pippin) Minas Tirith from another evil which had set inside to corrupt the heart of the City.
It is interesting to note that, by Gandalf confronting the WK & telling him to go back, he was actually giving the WK a choice to return to Good, which the WK rejected utterly due to it being subdued to the Evil will of Sauron & thus its demise followed quickly thereafter. The same could be said for the Balrog also, when it confronted Gandalf.