Alan Sisto

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

Pick it up where we left off there with the last section of the hunt for the ring.

Sodom and soon became jealous of Gandalf, and this rivalry turned at last to a hatred, the deeper for being concealed, and the more bitter in that Sodom and knew in his heart that the gray wanderer had the greater strength and the greater influence upon the dwellers in Middle-earth, even though he hid his power and desired neither fear nor reverence.

Saruman did not revere him,

but he grew to fear him, being ever uncertain how much Gandalf perceived of his inner mind, troubled more by his silences than by his words.

So it was that openly he treated Gandalf with less respect than did others of the wise, and was ever ready to gainsay him or to make little of his counsels, while secretly he noted and pondered all that he said, setting a watch, so far as he was able, upon all his movements."

It was in this way that Sodom came to give thought to the halflings and the shire, which otherwise he would have deemed beneath his notice.

He had at first no thought that the interest of his rival in this people had any connection with the great concerns of the council, least of all with the rings of power.

For indeed, in the beginning, it had no such connection and was due only to Gandalf's love for the little people, unless his heart had some deep premonition beyond his waking thought.

For many years, he visited the Shire openly and would speak of its people to any who would listen.

And Sodom and would smile as at the idle tales of an old Land Rover, but he took heed nonetheless.

The idle tales of an old Land Rover just makes me wonder, like, does it also have electrical problems, you know?

Come on down to the Fords of Bruin.

Guaranteed.

0.9% for 72 months.

That's right.

Come on down.

Yeah, I'd buy a car from Arwen.