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A good prophet (or a politician) is the one who can tell what what is sure to happen, and then to plausibly explain why it hasn't.
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Very true.
For some reason, I never thought of Aragorn's statement about Gandalf as being prophecy. I just thought that he was really worried. Everyone knew that "something" was there. They did not know it was a Balrog, but they knew "something" was there.
On the other hand, I can't think of a explicit reason why it couldn't be prophecy.