• Dadifer@lemmy.world
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    I thought the whole point is because they had no power or ambition, they were much less likely to be corrupted by the ring.

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      Also didn’t he just recruit Frodo? Sam was only there cause he overhead the plan, and Pip & Merry only so happened to bump into them along the way while stealing corn.

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    Well yes, we could send Glorfindel who has already fought a Balrog before. But, hear me out, what about this pudgy gardener instead?

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    Well have you ever recruited anybody other than weirdos for an adventure? Yeah those were totally normal, well adjusted people that wanted to do an overnight building a log cabin on the side of a ski resort to smoke weed in during the winter.

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    I rewatched the movie the other day and had this thought. Gandolfini was just stoned out of his ass for the first part of the movies…