Gandalf a Madman? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Baran · 12-01-2002, 12:41 AM

This may cause some controversy, but I say my favourite character, Gandalf, was a crazy man! Mad! A Lunatic!

Here si my reasoning:
Think about it, he sent Frodo on the way into the very heart of Mordor. Only with unbelievable luck several times did they reach Mt. Doom. And there Frodo was supposed to do a task no-one could do, cast the ring into the flames, none of the creatures in Middle-Earth could have done this, maybe not even the Valar. Several things could have gone wrong, from killing Gollum to being caught by a band of Orcs. The odds of succeding were many millions to one.
There is only two solutions, either Gandalf was a genius, who could predict the future, and knew what was going to happen (and this he couldn't), or he was raving mad.

You can say that there were no alternative, Sauron would have won the war and gotten the ring anyway, I say that fighting a war against Sauron, even when outnoumbered 100 to 1 would have been wiser.

The only real argument against this, is of course that Frodo succeded... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[ December 01, 2002: Message edited by: Baran ]

12-01-2002, 12:41 AM	#1
Baran Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Mordor/Lothlorien Posts: 71	Gandalf a Madman? This may cause some controversy, but I say my favourite character, Gandalf, was a crazy man! Mad! A Lunatic! Here si my reasoning: Think about it, he sent Frodo on the way into the very heart of Mordor. Only with unbelievable luck several times did they reach Mt. Doom. And there Frodo was supposed to do a task no-one could do, cast the ring into the flames, none of the creatures in Middle-Earth could have done this, maybe not even the Valar. Several things could have gone wrong, from killing Gollum to being caught by a band of Orcs. The odds of succeding were many millions to one. There is only two solutions, either Gandalf was a genius, who could predict the future, and knew what was going to happen (and this he couldn't), or he was raving mad. You can say that there were no alternative, Sauron would have won the war and gotten the ring anyway, I say that fighting a war against Sauron, even when outnoumbered 100 to 1 would have been wiser. The only real argument against this, is of course that Frodo succeded... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [ December 01, 2002: Message edited by: Baran ]