Great thread! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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Could Frodo have stopped Gandalf
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In Sam's opinion,
yes. That is, if
anyone could have stopped Gandalf, Mister Frodo could have.
But I really doubt that Gandalf could have turned Sam into anything unnatural (which in my opinion means turning him into something that is not Samwise Gamgee!). The nature of all the abilities Gandalf is shown to possess are related to fire, to wisdom or to his heightened mental powers (Osanwë-Kenta and all that).
Transfiguration is more of a Harry Potter kind of a thing. Maybe Sam just finished reading
The Chamber of Secrets. Actually if anyone in Middle-Earth could transform him into such, it would be either Radagast (a master of shapes and hues) or Sauron (an all around wraith-making shape-shifting evil menace).