Wielding the Flame of Anor

[Keeper of Dol Guldur]

Keep' . . . sounds good to me.

I agree again, that he probably just needed to get dry and dank dark caverns aren't the places to do that. It couldn't have been much of a heat source at that high altitude anyway.

I start to wonder if by being a 'servant of the secret fire' Gandalf's "rekindling" of men's and anything else with a fea's spirits may have been his intunement (I think that's a word) to the actual imperishable flame. Maybe he could quite literally relight their spirits, if Tolkien wanted the spirit to be something like fire in it's qualities. Kind of like the Olympic Torch of the free peoples of Middle Earth . . . he could build on it, possibly take some of it (thereby shrinking the spirit and making something timid or making himself seem bigger as he did with Bilbo, and quite a good many others).

On a side note regarding old Keepster himself here, I just realized that after a two year run on this site, my name is misspelled. Curse the letter 'o' because Guldur is Guldur, not Goldur. It's the 'o' in Dol that must have thrown off the balance. Oh, and I think this may have been my most successful topic in over a year, since "Of Beorn" which lasted quite a while. Of course, while that last one was purely skeptical, I hope this one can nitpick the writing closely enough that we can figure out exactly what Gandalf said and did in explicit detail. So far, it's clearing up quite well.