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Jun 9 2024, 2:55pm
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It's time for some more BS!
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Here's the second of 5 Book Spoilers that looks at Pippin's witness of 2 powers at work during his stay in Minas Tirith... for a moment of Tolkien-zen.
Minas Tirith: Book V: Return of the King ... "'Lead the Lord Mithrandir to the housing prepared for him,' said Denethor, 'and his companion may lodge with him for the present, if he will. But be it known that I have now sworn him to my service, and he shall be known as Peregrin son of Paladin and taught the lesser pass-words...
...'...And you, my Lord Mithrandir, shall come too, as and when you will. None shall hinder your coming to me at any time, save only in my brief hours of sleep. Let your wrath at an old man's folly run off...'
...'...Folly?' said Gandalf. 'Nay my lord... ...Do you think that I do not understand your purpose in questioning for an hour one who knows the least, while I sit by?'
...'If you understand it, then be content,' returned Denethor. 'Pride would be folly that disdained help and counsel at need; but you deal out such gifts according to your own designs. Yet the Lord of Gondor is not to be made the tool of other men's purposes, however worthy... ...the good of Gondor; and the rule of Gondor, my lord, is mine and no other man's, unless the king should come again.'
...'Unless the king should come again?' said Gandalf. 'Well, my lord Steward, it is your task to keep some kingdom still against that event... ...In that task you shall have all the aid that you are pleased to ask for. But I will say this: the rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care... ...for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I also am a steward. Did you not know? And with that he turned and strode from the hall with Pippin running at his side.
...Gandalf did not look at Pippin or speak a word to him...
......Their guide brought them... ...to a fair room, light and airy... ...It was sparely furnished, having but a small table, two chairs and a bench... ...and well-clad beds within with vessels and basins for washing. There were three high narrow windows that looked northward over the great curve of Anduin, still shrouded in mists, towards the Emyn Muil and Rauros... ...Pippin had to climb on the bench to look out over the deep stone sill.
...'Are you angry with me, Gandalf?' he said, as their guide went out and closed the door. 'I did the best I could.'
...'You did indeed!' said Gandalf, laughing suddenly; and he came and stood beside Pippin, putting his arm about the hobbit's shoulders, and gazing out of the window. Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own... ...the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.
...'Indeed you did your best,' said the wizard; 'and I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men....'"
We have been there and back again.
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(This post was edited by dernwyn on Jun 9 2024, 9:19pm)
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