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09-15-2004, 07:50 AM | #1 | |
Haunting Spirit
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The Fellowship's True Purpose?
The Fellowship was supposed to protect the Ringbearer Frodo from harm, while he pursues his Quest of destroying the One Ring...or so they say. But there seems to be either a big miscalculation on Gandalf's part, or the Fellowship had a darker purpose.
In The Shadow of the Past, Gandalf tells Frodo to try throwing the Ring into his fireplace. Frodo could not do so, and puts it in his pocket. Then Gandalf says: Quote:
But seriously, if that was not the Fellowship's purpose, why did Gandalf send Frodo on a Quest that was doomed to fail? He did not foresee Gollum's role. He merely says that he felt that Gollum would play a part "for good or for ill". Perhaps Gandalf truly was clueless. He knew Bilbo's Ring was one of the Twenty Rings of Power yet did nothing for 60 years, sent Frodo with 8 "defenders"(of which 3 did not know how to fight) to the very heart of Sauron's realm, and expected Frodo to destroy the Ring at the end, which he couldn't do even in the very beginning. Everything that happened was purely luck, if you think about it. The only logical explanations are that Gandalf was a dolt, or his Maia foresight told him that sending Frodo on this quest would turn out to be good. Gandalf is personally my favorite character, so I'll take choice #2, but he does seem to have some holes...Boromir did the logical thing in trying to take Frodo's Ring, IMO. It turned out to be evil, but he saw that the Quest was hopeless. Well, I sorta strayed from my original topic now. |
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09-15-2004, 08:29 AM | #2 |
Corpus Cacophonous
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Easy answer!
Gandalf trusted in providence ...
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09-15-2004, 01:05 PM | #3 | |
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Don't know true purpose.
Right now, I don't know the "true purpose" of the fellowship, besides the fact to get the ring to Mount Doom, where it atleast has an oppurtunity of being destroyed. And of course the quest was supposed to fail, or well, was a "desperate task."
The one good thing I saw the Fellowship for however, is it created long lasting friendships. You have the Sam-Frodo friendship, Merry-Pippin, Aragorn-Legolas-Gimli, and then everybody, it all created a lasting friendship between the companions. For some added info on Boromir, I have read this interesting little discussion topic. But, Boromir took the ring, in thought that it wouldn't corrupt the righteous, it's not that he wanted it for himself (eventhough once he had it he would have taken it for himself). But his thought was it wouldn't be able to corrupt "the righteous" people. And here is a quote from The Council of Elrond. Quote:
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09-16-2004, 12:33 AM | #4 | ||||
Haunting Spirit
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But I still think relying 100% on providence is wrong, when all the 'logical' explanations say that Frodo would fail. Quote:
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But, actually, Boromir did want it for himself, though he suggested Aragorn first (he believed himself to be one of those "strong Men"). Quote:
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However, the chances of successfully overthrowing Sauron using the Ring still would be higher than the chances of destroying the Ring, so I agree that Boromir's actions were understandable. I've been sitting here thinking for a while and I'm fairly certain that if I would've been in Boromir's position (I hate to say this) I probably would've tried to take the Ring like he did.
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