Quote:
Originally Posted by Gwathagor
"Trust, Radagast? Who would you trust among us? Too much trust is a dangerous thing, and scrutiny is safer."
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Radagast turned back calmly and gased on the other member from the north, with the respectable order of being a ranger. He gave a steady face and replied,
" Unlike
Gandalf I did not have the liberty to study under many of the Valar, especially Nianna who weeps for all the world so that it may have hope and trust in life, but there are some lessons you can learn of the heart from the wild, which I do not doubt you are familiar with.
I do not order trust, I
hope for it, as seeds hope they may grow, and birds hope they may live to greet them. The trust I speak of is one of the road ahead. The pass of Caradhras is not a path in the glen, so to speak, and if we suspect too blindly of one another The Cruel will suffer no pause in ripping us who are faithful, apart.
It is not whom I trust, but the trust you all will not forget yourselves and why you came, in this trial. "
He paused for a moment to hear the words of a few birds who called out over head, after which he sighed deeply and regained breath.
" If you wish me to act with more scrutiny, I will be honest. For scrutiny that you seek is one that only
Saruman can do well. I will speak words of caution when there is good reason to fear someone. So far, it is only the collective rashness of earlier which I distrusted, but to that we are all guilty.
I believe Saruman said there were only three amoung us who have been blinded by the ring, for those three I am only watching with stern, not blindly everyone here.
I do have some concern over
Ugluk, but only in the interest of Saruman, and that I will not have to explain to him why his servant only a few hours into the journey is
only bits and pieces....
Saruman is cunning, and I will not doubt his servants are without this either, but
Ugluk has only spoken so far as a few others of you have. When he gives me a reason of all proof for treachery, I will undoubtibly change my thoughts on him
and any ultimate motive of
Saruman to attract us to his call.
As for
Iarwain, whom you all seem highly suspicious of, his last song has seemed the most frank. I'd rather discern my suspicions from that and any later songs, than his earlier reverence for nature.
Unless the very plants are after us too, which if anything, I can assure you all that is has not yet come to pass.
That is what I honesty, suspect, my thoughtful ranger.
Though, I have not studied the peoples of Arda as well as
Gandalf, who has grown worryingly quiet amoung us. If anything, he will have far more wisdom than myself about this."