04-04-2011, 01:38 PM | #61 |
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A great quote from the appendices, when gandalf is speaking of the importance of the quest for erebor:
"Yet things might have gone far otherwise and far worse. When you think of the great Battle of the Pelennor, do not forget the battles in Dale and the valour of Durin's Folk. Think of what might have been. Dragon-fire and savage swords in Eriador, night in Rivendell. There might be no Queen in Gondor. We might now hope to return from the victory here only to ruin and ash. But that has been averted – because I met Thorin Oakenshield one evening on the edge of spring in Bree. A chance-meeting, as we say in Middle-earth." It really puts into perspective how important the dwarves mission was, and I think Gandalf truely believed at that second their fate was tied to the fate of middle earth. |
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