The Balrog

[LadyBrooke]

Originally Posted by Ibrîniðilpathânezel

Then again, if everyone had acted "wise" -- recalling and acting on all possible available knowledge and the most opportune moments, which is the implication I'm getting of the definition, here -- there wouldn't have been much of a story.

There wouldn't have been much of a story if everybody had displayed common sense in the history of M-E, starting with the Valar and ending with the hobbits. I fully understand that, and part of why I like Tolkien's books is that the beings expected to be the wisest and smartest don't always display those qualities which is rather true to real life.

It's just - and this is where I show myself to be just a teenager for all that I try to sound older - that Celeborn is one of my favorite characters (who I might have just a little bit of a crush on) and I therefore get really upset when everybody is attacking him for his actions. I look at that scene in Lothlorien and what I see is somebody wise enough to admit to his mistakes the minute they are pointed out. Something which all of the Noldor, who are the wisest elves according to many, are unable to do - look how long it took Finrod and his siblings to admit what happened to Thingol. And of Galadriel and Celeborn who came closest to taking the ring?