June 21, 2004

Wisdom Etc
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Danny, what you say is true, Sauron could have placed one Nazgul at Mt Doom. I never said he was perfect, nearly but not totally. As for enjoying LOTR, course I did!! Who wouldnt! Apart from the imagination bereft. But Sauron foolish?! no, as Gandalf "the layer of traps from afar" greyhame said, doubt ever consumes him. Doubt, doubt that he had missed something. When a fool realises his own foolishness he becomes a wise man, when a wise man realises his own wisdom he becomes a fool. Sauron knew things might be missed and his plans might not go according to plan. This doubt stops him from being a fool, makes him wise infact. On both sides errors were made. The west were just luckier. As for Gandalfs plan, when other choice was there? They could not hide it, use it or send it to Valinor, there was no other option but to destroy it. Where is the wisdom in picking the only available option? Sauron played a long and hard game, one that saw his most of his opponents in their grave along time before he went to his.

Everyone does know, just to enjoy this banter dont they?!?! Me, I just enjoy the arguement from Sauron's side. Everyone else argues pro Gondor, Gandalf etc. T'would get boring if we were all the same.

Bombadil. Why the RIng couldnt influence him was he was his own master. He was totally in control of his being. His mind/soul was removed and untouched by occurences. Mind over matter kind of thing. You can school your mind to totally ignore any pain, to observe it happening to your body, but not to YOU. The core being. Multiply this 100 times and you get the idea of control that Bombadil had over himself. He was tempted by the Ring but knew it was external to himself and so could simply ignore it. As for seeing Frodo, Bombadil was a Maia, and can see both the physical and spirit plane of existence. Frodo wasn't truely invisible, he was in the spirit world. Sauron did not become invisible because it was his natural condition to be both in the spirit and physical world. Bombadil had under pressure from other livingthings, humans etc retreated back to his own land. Here he could say what was what. Outside he could not order other living beings how to behave towards other living things. He had no authority over them. His own land however was his.

Just a thought, while Saruman did and said things because of his own twisted motives, did he not speak a little wisdom. He did not trust to luck. His plan to direct Sauron back to Good was a worthy idea. Sauron very nearly went back to Valinor at the end of the 1st age. No being is ever purely evil. Gandalf yet again turned his back on someone that needed his help ;)
Seriously though the Valar are responsible for most of the grief in Middle-earth. Too proud to help the Noldor in the 1st age, untill they begged for aid. Too lazy to look again for Sauron.

Anyways, see you all later :) Ash Nazg...