grammaboodawg
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Thu, 5:57pm
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It's time for yet more BS!
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Here's a Book Spoiler that takes a closer look at some of the Fellowship's Moments of Choice and their allies. I've always been fascinated by Frodo's ability to offer the Ring to each of those whose fate could bring them to claim it, and who have surely considered what they would do if given the chance.… for a moment to Tolkien-zen.
Galadriel's Choice
From The Mirror of Galadriel: The Fellowship of the Ring ... "'Here is the Mirror of Galadriel,' she said. 'I have brought you here so that you may look in it, if you will….'
... '…Do you advise me to look?' asked Frodo.
... 'No,' she said. 'I do not counsel you one way or the other. I am not a counsellor. You may learn something, and whether what you see be fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous. Yet I think, Frodo, that you have courage and wisdom enough for the venture, or I would not have brought you here. Do as you will!'
... 'I will look,' said Frodo, and he climbed on the pedestal and bent over the dark water…
... …Frodo looked into emptiness. In the black abyss there appeared a single Eye… …it filled nearly all the Mirror. So terrible was it that Frodo stood rooted, unable to cry out or to withdraw his gaze… …and Frodo knew with certainty and horror that… …it sought he himself… …he also knew that it could not see him—not yet, not unless he willed it. The Ring that hung upon its chain about his neck grew… …heavier than a great stone, and his head was dragged downwards…
... '…Do not touch the water!' said the Lady Galadriel softly. The vision faded, and Frodo found that he was looking at the cool stars twinkling in the silver basin. He stepped back shaking all over and looked at the Lady.
... 'I know what it was that you last saw,' she said; 'for that is also in my mind. Do not be afraid! But do not think that only by singing amid the trees, nor even by the slender arrows of elven-bows, is this land of Lothlórien maintained and defended against its Enemy… … I perceive the Dark Lord and know… …all of his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought. But still the door is closed!'
... She lifted up her white arms, and spread out her hands towards the East in a gesture of rejection and denial…. Eärendil, the Evening Star, most beloved of the Elves, shone clear above… …Its rays glanced upon a ring about her finger; it glittered like polished gold overlaid with silver light, and a white stone in it twinkled as if the Even-star had come down to rest upon her hand. Frodo gazed at the ring with awe; for suddenly it seemed to him that he understood.
... 'Yes,' she said, divining his thought, 'it is not permitted to speak of it, and Elrond could not do so. But it cannot be hidden from the Ring-bearer, and one who has seen the Eye…. …This is Nenya, the Ring of Adamant, and I am its keeper.
... 'He suspects, but he does not know—not yet. Do you not see now wherefore your coming is to us the footstep of Doom? For if you fail, then we are laid bare to the Enemy. Yet if you succeed, then our power is diminished, and Lothlórien will fade, and the tides of Time will sweep it away. We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and caves, slowly to forget and to be forgotten.
... Frodo bent his head. 'And what do you want?' he said at last.
... 'That what should be shall be… …Yet I could wish, were it of any avail, that the One Ring had never been wrought, or had remained for ever lost.'
... 'You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if you ask for it. It is too great a matter for me.'
... Galadriel laughed with a sudden clear laugh. 'Wise the Lady Galadriel may be… …yet here she has met her match in courtesy. Gently are you revenged for my testing of your heart at our first meeting. You begin to see with a keen eye. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer. For many long years I had pondered what I might do, should the Great Ring come into my hands, and behold! it was brought within my grasp. The evil that was devised long ago works on in many ways, whether Sauron himself stands or falls. Would not that have been a noble deed to set to the credit of his Ring, if I had taken it by force or fear from my guest?
... 'And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible… …Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair…!'
... …Then she let her hand fall… …and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.
... 'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.'
... They stood for a long while in silence. At length the Lady spoke again. 'Let us return… …In the morning you must depart, for now we have chosen, and the tides of fate are flowing.'"
We have been there and back again.
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(This post was edited by grammaboodawg on Thu, 6:01pm)
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