Mithalwen's quiet wisdom has inspired me to fight off my paranoia, and perhaps to take a closer look at someone I felt inclined to trust. Truly her baking and cooking has allowed her unique perspective and time for contemplation.
Her advice, stated briefly seems to be as follows:
1) Spread the vote, to maximize the evidence we have to analyse tomorrow.
2) Understand we have little to go on.
3) Take a close look at those who have spoken often, especially
Firefoot.
Alas, my mission in the Civil Service has left me no time to see the workings of other villages, and so I fear it will be difficult for me to realize when the members are acting suspiciously or merely eccentrically. So let us take a slow and careful look at our heretofore trusted Stabler:
Her reaction was first, yes, but surely we must all agree that if we are to combat this threat to our homes and livelihood, someone must post first. However, I find her initial statement interesting.
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Strategies can be discussed, of course, but it seems to me that there really aren't any good strategies for catching wolves, not this early on
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She goes on to suggest the best plan is to enjoy the benefits of a wide and active discussion, and suggests voting for whomever seems most wolvish to one's self at the end of the Day.
Later, she bemoans the silence of the village, but I have no experience to tell me whether or not our little village was truly relatively silent. More interesting, to my eyes at least, is her suggestion that we limit our voting by selecting a range of four random people. This seems an about-face from her earlier suggestion to vote by individual conscience, which would, in the absence of any real evidence, ensure a fairly wide spread of votes.
Her next post is another about-face, stating explicitly that a well-spread out vote is the best chance of catching a Wolf.
And finally, her vote for Gandalf. I do not criticise this vote, for none of us have anything to go on, and wolves or not, Firefoot has important duties to attend to. What strikes me as curious is her insistence that we villagers develop some strategy with which to catch the wolves. Did she not already tell us that strategy is useless with as little as we have to go on today?
Perhaps, in my inexperience, I have misread or misinterpreted the import of what Firefoot has said toDay, and so I ask those with more knowledge of the dangers we face to consider my words, and show me my errors. For now, I must confess my suspicions of Firefoot are growing.
Oh, and I must apologize to
Eonwe. I am afraid I have been referring to you as a girl, and such an error is ridiculous.