Descrepencies In Quotes - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Olorin · 05-15-2003, 06:56 PM

Hey, I was reading the Two Towers yesterday I was up to the part where Frodo is remembering what Gandalf said. The quote that he remembers is something along the lines of:

...do not be too eager to deal out death in the name of justice in judgement...

however Gandalf actually said:

...do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement...

there wasn't originally a part about justice. Can someone explain this to me?

MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie · 05-15-2003, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Can someone explain this to me?

Tolkien made a mistake, or he intended to do that for some reason. Or, Frodo's memory isn't that great.

Note: it replaces "judgement" with "the name of justice"; there is no "in jusdgement" after "in the name of justice."

Interesting observation.

05-23-2003, 09:08 PM

I agree about the mistake in the text.

But I think that Frodo wasn't trying to remeber word-to-word his converstion with Gandalf.He was just recollecting the basic crust of the matter to help him in his decision about Gollum.

05-15-2003, 06:56 PM	#1
Olorin Wight Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Where the sun sails and the moon walks. Posts: 155	Descrepencies In Quotes Hey, I was reading the Two Towers yesterday I was up to the part where Frodo is remembering what Gandalf said. The quote that he remembers is something along the lines of: ...do not be too eager to deal out death in the name of justice in judgement... however Gandalf actually said: ...do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement... there wasn't originally a part about justice. Can someone explain this to me? __________________ Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then don't be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

05-23-2003, 09:08 PM	#3
GandalftheWhite Guest Posts: n/a	I agree about the mistake in the text. But I think that Frodo wasn't trying to remeber word-to-word his converstion with Gandalf.He was just recollecting the basic crust of the matter to help him in his decision about Gollum.