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Originally Posted by Mansun
I don't think telling other posters what to do is the correct approach. There is meant to be active discussion here, not a heated argument.
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Who's having a heated argument?
Mansun, it is very hard to have a discussion if you don't understand what the other party is getting at. I am not "telling you what to do", I'm suggesting you make your points a bit more clearly. All right?
On that note– what in the quote
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"But let us not darken our hearts by imagining the trial of their gentle loyalty in the Dark Tower."
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indicates light-hearted humour? This is a genuine question. I really, really want to know.
Also–
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Originally Posted by Mansun
Do you forget Farmer Maggot here? He had beaten Frodo before, in the wrong side of fury. Didn't Gandalf nearly burn Gollum alive in a flash of anger?
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Again, I'm at loss to know what possible bearing Farmer Maggot has on anything.
And Gandalf did
not "nearly burn Gollum alive in a flash of anger". He threatened him with fire, to get him to talk. Not nice, I agree– but not the same thing.
Here's the quote (from T
he Shadow of the Past):
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"I endured him as long as I could, but the truth was desperately important, and in the end I had to be harsh. I put the fear of fire on him, and wrung the true story out of him, bit by bit, together with much snivelling and snarling."
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