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Melilot Brandybuck · 08-20-2008, 04:12 AM

In Appendix A, Gandalf discusses what could have happend if it had not been for the battle of Dale. He ends it by stating;

"But that has been adverted-because I met Thorin Oakenshield one evening on the edge of spring in Bree. A chance-meeting, as we say in Middle-earth."

I always feel a thrill when I read that sentence. A chance meeting between Gandalf and the dwarf... leading to the finding of the Ring, the Fellowship, the great deeds and sorrows...

How much was chance? Was this predestined?

08-20-2008, 04:12 AM	#1
Melilot Brandybuck Animated Skeleton Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 35	A chance meeting In Appendix A, Gandalf discusses what could have happend if it had not been for the battle of Dale. He ends it by stating; "But that has been adverted-because I met Thorin Oakenshield one evening on the edge of spring in Bree. A chance-meeting, as we say in Middle-earth." I always feel a thrill when I read that sentence. A chance meeting between Gandalf and the dwarf... leading to the finding of the Ring, the Fellowship, the great deeds and sorrows... How much was chance? Was this predestined? __________________ The original and best Mel B