[HPforGrownups] Re: Who will die?

[Taryn Kimel]

No: HPFGUIDX 60841

Ihunneb:
I believe that if you read the Moria section carefully you will see 
that Gandalf didn't actually die, but the fellowship thought he did.  
He fell into the abyss with the Balrog, they fought a mighty battle 
and Gandalf was burned. Then they plunged into deep water and, as 
Gandalf described it, "almost it froze my heart."

The Gandalf and the Balrog had an epic chase, through the depths 
under Moria, up and out onto the pinacle of the mountain Silvertine.  
They fought on the pinacle until Gandalf threw down his enemy to its 
destruction.  Then he wandered in a daze and ended up alone and naked 
on the top of the mountain, until Gwaihir the Windlord found him.

Taryn (me):
I feel /so/ off-topic, but I'm disagreeing. I've always read Gandalf's "Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell." and "Naked I was sent back--for a brief time, until my task is done." as that he died and was sent back by the Valar to finish his task. And I've always thought the general consensus to be that Gandalf died and was sent back.

--Taryn

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