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Originally Posted by Mansun
If Gandalf was so worried about Ring corruption over Pippin's comments, he may as well have sent the Ring into the Great Sea, where no hand would be able to use the Ring for thousands of years.
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That would have been the very definition of foolishness. Just as it was lost for centuries on the river bottom of the Anduin, by the Gladden Fields, it would lie at the bottom of the sea and would have eventually have been found. The Ring has a will of it's own, it's not a dead artifact!
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Originally Posted by Mansun
Reading too much into small details can lead to gross exageration of a situation that is relatively low key. In any event, Gandalf answered to Elrond, and not the other way round. What can and cannot be said in his own house is his choice alone, the Master of Rivendell.
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However, they respected each others opinions. Just as Elrond scolded Gandalf for speaking of the inscription on the Ring during the council, so did Gandalf gently scold Pippin for making too light a matter over the greatest evil in Arda. It isn't a matter of allowing people to have fun or not, as you see right after Gandalf finishes speaking Pippin responds, I think quite merrily, and Gandalf didn't stop the feast in Frodo's honor just because Pippin said something that he knew nothing about.
I think that it's safe to say that you are looking at this thing a little seriously,
Mansun, and you're beginning to interpret things that were never intentioned to be there.