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Originally Posted by Meneltarmacil
It has a sense of "I don't want to have a reason to turn against you" feel to it, or at least as I see it. And we already know what that nasty wizard turned out to be in the end.
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"It has the feel in it that "I'm suspecting you heavily now and will soon vote for you if you don't give me reasons not to". Let us not confuse the good manners we all show to our earlier friends here and the exact situation we are and what we need to do."
Saying that he welcomed the call of the lady of the Galadhrim and climbed the remaining steps eagerly to meet her. While others sat back and went to their sacks for snacks Tom stayed up.
"Sorry for not singing this. There's time and place for everything.
My dear lady I must say that there's a shadow I see hovering above you and I need to speak this through openly. I do hope you can show I'm wrong for too noble companions have we lost this far already. And I will not restate things I have already said but only stick to thoughts I've gotten of late.
The traitor
Radagast defended you in the very end when all was still more or less open - and he couldn't foresee his own death that would make that determined but non-grounded (and in the end non-needed) defence look so bad afterwards.
Also the heroic
Eomér suspected the traitor
Radagast strongly but also suspected you. If two of the traitors were caught in her suspicions (others being
Halbarad and
Elrohir) they might have thought he had some capabilities - a gift one could say - for seeing loyalties and that would explain why they called the Watcher to finish him off last Night.
And you speak of certainty and surety with the need of getting rid of me while you apologise how wrong you have been? I'm not sure or certain we should send you away but I'm beginning to think it might be our best option... in all insecurity we need to live with."
Tom looked at the fair lady in to the eyes and then sat back himself.
"And by the way I do still think that both
Halbarad and the fair lady
Galadriel are not both traitors but one of them might be indeed. For the way
Halbarad seems to try at the same time both make friends with me while with his other hand trying to spread suspicion of me when there seems to be some general distrust looks very dubious indeed. And he shared the top-suspicion in the eyes of
Eomer who the traitors might have taken as a "seer" of some kind...
And if you think you should suspect me then just remember
Radagast's recital when he told me - by my open request - what people had said yesterDay while I had been away (post #132). It's a nice piece of rhetoric where he looks like quite innocently only referring to me what people had talked about that Day - but why did he make it aloud? Why did he actually wrote all those "analysis" to answer my request? So there was a reason why he wished to share those thoughts with us all. And what might that be? Just remember what he said and you see that it's kind of a list why people should vote me out of the company (he refers mainly to those speeches that suspected me and only referred to a few other kind of comments) while he could distract himself from that view and stay in friendly terms with me. Treacherous wizards are crafty indeed."
Tom took a piece of bread from his rucksack and started chewing.
"In principle we can make one more mistake but I'd rather send a traitor away toNight and so I would very much like to hear what you lady
Galadriel and good
Halbarad have to say for yourselves - or what suggestions you do have."
EDIT: X'd with Halbarad:
"Your indecisive suggestiviness looks really bad indeed dear ranger..."