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Originally Posted by Inziladun
no one would have been watching him.
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Sauron perhaps?
I'm inclined to agree more with mundane disguises being used personally, to connect with his "mind of metal and wheels".
Legate is correct as well; Gandalf arrived after dark:
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'Late one evening I came to the gate, like a great arch in the wall of rock; and it was strongly guarded. But the keepers of the gate were on the watch for me and told me that Saruman awaited me. I rode under the arch, and the gate closed silently behind me, and suddenly I was afraid, though I knew no reason for it.'
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It would have saved me a lot of time thinking about this if I'd checked slightly further back in the text. Happens to me all the time I feel.