There's something down there!
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Gandalf: |
It's Gollum...
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Frodo: |
Gollum!?
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Gandalf: |
He's been following us for three days...
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Frodo: |
He escaped the dungeons of Barad-Dûr?
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Gandalf: |
Escaped, or was set loose.
He hates and loves the Ring, just as he hates and loves
himself. He will never be rid of his need for it...
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Frodo: |
Pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance!
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Gandalf: |
Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live
deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can
you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out
death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all
ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play
yet, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of
Bilbo may rule the fate of many.
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Frodo: |
I wish the Ring had never come to me.
I wish none of this had happened...
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Gandalf: |
So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to
decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that
is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world,
Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the
Ring, in which case you were also meant to have it. And that
is an encouraging thought...
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