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Originally Posted by Melilot Brandybuck
In Appendix A, Gandalf discusses what could have happend if it had not been for the battle of Dale. He ends it by stating;
"But that has been adverted-because I met Thorin Oakenshield one evening on the edge of spring in Bree. A chance-meeting, as we say in Middle-earth."
I always feel a thrill when I read that sentence. A chance meeting between Gandalf and the dwarf... leading to the finding of the Ring, the Fellowship, the great deeds and sorrows...
How much was chance? Was this predestined?
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Good job Gandalf always had a thirst on for the ale at the Prancing Pony, what?
