noWizardme
Gondolin
Apr 28, 6:38pm
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Frodo dillied and dallied, dallied and he dillied
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Ah, but that's another old song.
My brain sometimes turns somersaults when I think about everyone turning up on time to Council of Elrond where many paths and errands meet and Elrond says
‘What shall we do with the Ring...
'That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, I say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come here and here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.
So a lot depends on who has turned up. I wonder, is everyone elses' journey timed to co-incide with Frodo's dilly-dallying, or what would have happened had Frodo set off for Rivendell without a handkerchief, before (say) Boromir had even set out for Rivendell? (I don't know the answer of course!)
And of course if Frodo had been determined to set out at once, maybe Gandalf woudl have taken him to Saruman for advice. Now that could have gone wrong...
Yes, narrow miss with Smaug! Always find out what a hobbit has in its pocketses!
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"I am not made for querulous pests." Frodo 'Spooner' Baggins.
(This post was edited by noWizardme on Apr 28, 6:39pm)
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