[HerenIstarion]

Haunting Spirit
Posts: 85


I don't think even Gandalf knew what was the right choice in that case. So we have 'ever present greater force'. If you scan all the threads in LoTR, you will see that obviously Frodo and Sam where meant to do the thing alone, without help of any - Gandalf was put out in Moria, Boromir killed by orcs, Aragorn had to pursue Merry and Pippin's kidnappers. And whole affair was started by the same invisible force with the quest of Erebor and Bilbo. in UT Gandalf states, that he had no logical reason forcing Bilbo to go with the dwarves, but was inspired by some kind of intuition.

And, as a metter for new discussion, we may have some interesting parallel: Beren and Luthien - Frodo and Sam, Carcharoth - Gollum.