The slogans ‘Frodo Lives’ and ‘Gandalf for President’ festooned subway stations worldwide as graffiti. They write: during the 1960s, a time of accelerating social change driven in part by 42 million Baby Boomers coming of age, Tolkien’s The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings became required reading for the nascent counterculture, devoured simultaneously by students, artists, writers, rock bands and other agents of cultural change. On November 19th, 2014, the BBC published the article "Hobbits and hippies: Tolkien and the counterculture," which notes the series' impact on the hippie counterculture. Their sojourn was a 'purgatory', but one of peace and healing and they would eventually pass away (die at their own desire and of free will) to destinations of which the Elves knew nothing. The Valar had neither the power nor the right to confer 'immortality' upon them. On January 31st, 2002, Tolkein Forum user Cian quoted the book's author J.R.R Tolkien: As for Frodo or other mortals, they could only dwell in Aman for a limited time - whether brief or long. However, you can also upload your own templates or start from scratch with empty templates. People often use the generator to customize established memes, such as those found in Imgflips collection of Meme Templates. Some fans contest that the phrase is a reference to the book's ending, in which Frodo takes the last ship to the Gray Havens with the elves, and in essences live on. Its a free online image maker that lets you add custom resizable text, images, and much more to templates. The band later released the song under the name The Magic Room (shown below, right). Could she have provided the same help had she come to Rivendell? I doubt it.In 1967, the psychedelic rock group The Hobbits released the single for the song "Frodo Lives" (shown below, left). So your route will have meant going south to Isengard, then north to Lothlorien, then back south. He will have been familiar with Galadriel and that she can help - and frankly, without her help, the quest will have failed. Third, as Galadriel mentions, it may be that Gandalf had intended to go to Lothlorien from the outset. So did he really believe he had an ally in Isengard? And even if he did, it was still the best for as few people to know about the Ring as possible. Second, I believe Gandalf had misgivings about Saruman long before latter openly revealed himself. And what better place to have it than Rivendell? And considering the stakes, a council was necessary. One Ring was a massive threat to the entirety of Middle Earth, and with Sauron back in Mordor, this was no longer the case of simply taking a stroll. I'm wondering if Gandalf had some kind of misgiving toward Saruman, even if he didn't state it or wasn't fully sure, or some premonition from Eru, that caused him not to send Frodo toward the south but instead northeast.įirst, they didn't decide anything yet. Other than having one of the three Elven Rings to protect it, it doesn't seem anything special that could be worth going out of the way for. I mean, other than going through Caradros or whatever that mountain's name is, or through Moria, there was no sensible other way (we can rule out the route Bilbo took in the Hobbit as not only was it possibly goblin-infested again, but that way was also blocked by Dol Guldor, unless they want to go all the way down from the Long Lake down that river and miles and miles down, possibly into Rhun and hostile territory, to the Ash Mountains, which would likely have taken too long, allowing Sauron to break through Gondor by then, not to mention, I think Mirkwood was still unsafe anyway and probably growing more so even than it was when Bilbo went through, unless he went way around, which would take even longer and also go too near goblin territory.), that the best route, seemingly, would be again to head near Isengard, which they could have done earlier anyway, as I mentioned, so going to Rivendale seemed out of the way in the long run. While I'm getting the impression that Gandalf would have left immediately with Frodo and not even bothered to go to Isengard if he'd had a strong enough inkling that the Nazgul were out already and looking for the Shire, I'm still thinking that Rivendale is an odd route. The much quicker route, and, it would seem, as far as Gandalf knew, safer route, would have been to go toward Longbottom and the Gap of Rohan and ultimately cross the Misty Mountains there, where, as far as Gandalf knew, at least he had allies present in Rohan and Isengard, and cross the Anduin from that way (basically where he crossed in the end of Fellowship anyway but instead going the opposite route that the company, sans Frodo and Sam, went in The Two Towers. I see that Gandalf recommended that he go to Rivendale, but that seems out of the way if he wants to ultimately go to Mordor.
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