Gandalf a Madman? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Orual · 12-01-2002, 07:25 PM

Crazy? Only in the way that all geniuses are, darling. Forget the fine line. It doesn't exist. Brilliant people are crazy. Crazy's not a bad thing, it just is.

As for Gandalf's wisdom in entrusting the Ring to Frodo, it wasn't only his intuition that pointed to Frodo; Elrond also agreed with it. And nobody else stood up and said "Are you all NUTS??? This is madness! Give the Ring to someone else!" It seemed like it was Frodo or no one. True, sometimes Gandalf's wisdom in things wasn't apparent on face value, but it always turned out well in the end. I think that his intuition was finely tuned and rarely wrong, even when reason seemed to suggest the opposite of what he decided. Galadriel put it best, but I can't quite remember what she said. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

That's my two cents.

~*~Orual~*~

12-01-2002, 07:25 PM	#9
Orual Speaker of the Dead Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Superbia Posts: 868	Crazy? Only in the way that all geniuses are, darling. Forget the fine line. It doesn't exist. Brilliant people are crazy. Crazy's not a bad thing, it just is. As for Gandalf's wisdom in entrusting the Ring to Frodo, it wasn't only his intuition that pointed to Frodo; Elrond also agreed with it. And nobody else stood up and said "Are you all NUTS??? This is madness! Give the Ring to someone else!" It seemed like it was Frodo or no one. True, sometimes Gandalf's wisdom in things wasn't apparent on face value, but it always turned out well in the end. I think that his intuition was finely tuned and rarely wrong, even when reason seemed to suggest the opposite of what he decided. Galadriel put it best, but I can't quite remember what she said. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] That's my two cents. ~~Orual~~ __________________ "Oh, my god! I care so little, I almost passed out!" --Dr. Cox, "Scrubs"