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Originally Posted by HerenIstarion
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I'm afraid of plunging into it lest we come to justification of 'necessary cruelty'
And yet it is my firm belief that would 'fear of fire' prove tool insufficient to make Gollum talk, Gandalf would not have forced him with fire proper.
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Equivalent, perhaps, of the 'fake' firing squads used as part of psychological torture....And often the worst part of torture is the fear of it - which Gandalf must have realised.....