The Ring now has passed beyond my help, or the help of any of the Company that set out from Rivendell. Very nearly it was revealed to the Enemy, but it escaped. I had some part in that: for I sat in a high place, and I strove with the Dark Tower; and the Shadow passed. Then I was weary, very weary; and I walked long in dark thought.'
The Two Towers : The White Rider
Vad menade Gandalf när han sa att han hade slagit mot Dark Tower? Var detta möjligen en viljestrid?
Det är underförstått att detta var en viljestrid, ja. Det är användbart här att titta på hur det spelade ut från Frodos perspektiv vid denna tidpunkt (från Fellesskapets brytning ):
And suddenly he felt the Eye. There was an eye in the Dark Tower that did not sleep. He knew that it had become aware of his gaze. A fierce eager will was there. It leaped towards him; almost like a finger he felt it, searching for him. Very soon it would nail him down, know just exactly where he was. Amon Lhaw it touched. It glanced upon Tol Brandir - he threw himself from the seat, crouching, covering his head with his grey hood.
He heard himself crying out: Never, never! Or was it: Verily I come, I come to you? He could not tell. Then as a flash from some other point of power there came to his mind another thought: Take it off! Take it off! Fool, take it off! Take off the Ring!
Att denna händelse är uttryckligen kopplad till Gandalfs uttalande bekräftas av följande i kapitlet Den svarta porten är stängd :
Yet even as he spoke his last words to Saruman, and the palantir crashed in fire upon the steps of Orthanc, his thought was ever upon Frodo and Samwise, over the long leagues his mind sought for them in hope and pity.
Maybe Frodo felt it, not knowing it, as he had upon Amon Hen, even though he believed that Gandalf was gone, gone for ever into the shadow in Moria far away...
Och så kan vi med absolut säkerhet säga att den andra tanke som instruerade Frodo att ta av Ringen var definitivt Gandalfs.
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