The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Lord Of The Rings Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 12 days agoNot helping Frodo's trust issues...media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down12
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minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·12 days agoSaruman accuses him of not consulting with the Order sooner: The hour grows late and Gandalf the Grey rides to Isengard seeking my counsel. and in the next scene: The hour is later than you think. Gríma echoes this to Théoden: Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear. Azog in The Desolation of Smaug says he should have come to Dol Goldur sooner: You have come too late, Wizard! It is done. And he arrives at Helm’s Deep in the very late stages of the siege, though it was precisely when he meant to.
minus-squarepet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·12 days agoSo Gandalf is in fact chronically time-challenged.
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoWizard’s advocate: those don’t say Gandalf is late. It says the hour is late, or he’s too late to do something. Maybe that was his intent to be too late to take that action, but he’s still in time to do something else.
Saruman accuses him of not consulting with the Order sooner:
and in the next scene:
Gríma echoes this to Théoden:
Azog in The Desolation of Smaug says he should have come to Dol Goldur sooner:
And he arrives at Helm’s Deep in the very late stages of the siege, though it was precisely when he meant to.
So Gandalf is in fact chronically time-challenged.
Wizard’s advocate: those don’t say Gandalf is late. It says the hour is late, or he’s too late to do something. Maybe that was his intent to be too late to take that action, but he’s still in time to do something else.