Could Gandalf have won the war alone? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lalwendë · 12-10-2006, 02:53 PM

There's also the not very insignificant factor that the One Ring had to be destroyed. Even had Gandalf marched into Mordor and opened up a whole can of wizardly whupass on Sauron and smote him or something like that (and I doubt that he could have done this anyway) the Ring would still have existed. This Ring was made by Sauron and contained something of Sauron. Note how all the great and the good refuse the Ring as they know that if they owned it then they too would turn into tyrants; had it continued to exist then there would have been a mini-me Sauron to deal with all over again in a few years time, maybe a Napoleon-like Frodo or a wicked witch of the west Galadriel.

Gandalf was going for the full monty, the absolute defeat. Draw a line under it, shut the door, return to Valinor, job done. That's what's so frightening about Frodo's mission, the whole future of Middle-earth depends on him literally unmaking the Ring.

12-10-2006, 02:53 PM	#7
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	There's also the not very insignificant factor that the One Ring had to be destroyed. Even had Gandalf marched into Mordor and opened up a whole can of wizardly whupass on Sauron and smote him or something like that (and I doubt that he could have done this anyway) the Ring would still have existed. This Ring was made by Sauron and contained something of Sauron. Note how all the great and the good refuse the Ring as they know that if they owned it then they too would turn into tyrants; had it continued to exist then there would have been a mini-me Sauron to deal with all over again in a few years time, maybe a Napoleon-like Frodo or a wicked witch of the west Galadriel. Gandalf was going for the full monty, the absolute defeat. Draw a line under it, shut the door, return to Valinor, job done. That's what's so frightening about Frodo's mission, the whole future of Middle-earth depends on him literally unmaking the Ring. __________________ Gordon's alive!