Alan Sisto

Yeah.

Yeah.

As long as it's harmless.

That's the thing.

Like he knows, or at least believes that Saruman's not a good guy anymore, but this isn't the reason why.

So he's not going to make a big deal out of this.

He's not going to say anything.

But at that point, of course, even Gandalf could not have imagined what we talked about last section, that his interest in the Shire would become an existential threat to the Shire, you know, and almost give victory to Sauron.

I mean, if Frodo had not left when he did, if he left the next morning, it's all over.

The Lord of the Rings ends in the first chapter.

Right.

We have a story about Bilbo's party and that's the end of it.

And it's just Bilbo's birthday party and then the destruction of the Shire.

And then carnage.

Yeah, that doesn't... That doesn't make for a good movie.

We could rewrite The Lord of the Rings as a choose-your-own-adventure with like...

Endings all the time.

The ending of Frodo just chooses... Frodo has a cold and chooses to leave the next morning.

The Shire is destroyed.

You know, or somebody says to Gandalf, why don't you take the Eagles?