![]() Gandalf gave up before Aragorn, and figured out another way to identify the Ring (by the inscription on the Ring) in early 3018. No wonder it took them seventeen years the wonder is that they didn't give up earlier! state of New York or bigger, being searched by two people, looking for an individual-known to be good at hiding-who had last been seen about fifty years previously. That's a strip of land maybe five hundred miles long north to south and a hundred or a hundred and fifty west to east a piece of land the size of the U.S. ![]() Wilderland is not specifically defined anywhere, it's not a country but it appears from the maps in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings that Wilderland is the strip of land east from the Misty Mountains as far as the Lonely Mountain in the north, and south apparently as far as Rohan and then southeast from there to the borders of Mordor. ( The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 2, "The Council of Elrond") There we had rumour of him, and we guess that he dwelt there long in the dark hills but we never found him, and at last I despaired. Then Gandalf told how they had explored the whole length of Wilderland, down even to the Mountains of Shadow and the fences of Mordor. And since it seemed fit that Isildur's heir should labour to repair Isildur's fault, I went with Gandalf on the long and hopeless search.' 'And I,' said Aragorn, 'counselled that we should hunt for Gollum, too late though it may seem. This of course would require finding Gollum: Furthermore, he and Aragorn seem to have decided that the best way to decide whether Frodo's ring was The Ring was to try and connect the dots from Isildur to Gollum by finding where Gollum got his ring, and when. ![]() ( The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 2, "The Shadow of the Past")Īfter Bilbo's departure in 3001, Gandalf felt sufficiently alarmed that he consulted with Aragorn and had the guard doubled. It appears that Gandalf had at some point after Bilbo's return in 2941 been suspicious enough to request that the Dunedain set a guard on the Shire-we're not told when, as far as I can discover, but Gandalf does tell Frodo in "The Shadow of the Past",Įven when I was far away there has never been a day when the Shire has not been guarded by watchful eyes. He felt that it was important to do research into the ring-research which he summarizes for Frodo in Chapter 2 of Book I, and for the Council of Elrond in Chapter 2 of Book asked why Gandalf took 17 years to find the answer to whether this was the One Ring or not, especially given the possible danger to Frodo and the Shire generally. Gandalf had been alarmed by Bilbo's reaction to the suggestion of giving up the ring, and by his description of feeling "thin and stretched" and most of all by Bilbo's use of the term "precious" to describe it. ![]() ![]() ( The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 1, "A Long-Expected Party") "I have merely begun to wonder about the ring, especially since last night." " may have other powers than just making you vanish when you wish to." Because 17 years earlier, Gandalf had no more than a pretty firm suspicion that Frodo's ring might possibly be the One Ring-even though Saruman had denied this was possible. ![]()
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