...and Gandalf the Grey spent 3 weeks drinking and smoking and setting off fireworks with the Hobbits, remembering his old friend Bilbo who died some years earlier after an average hobbit lifespan with his nephew Frodo...

THE END

[–] BearGun@ttrpg.network 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Gandalf wouldn't even still be there, since he was only there to aid in the fight against Sauron. He'd have gone off to Valinor shortly after Sauron's defeat, together with the rest of the elves. And there'd be no Aragorn to be a good pal and extend the good lifespans of the realms of Men, so Gondor would never get a new king and the realms of Men would likely fall to evil a bit into the third age.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I could totally see Gandalf still being in middle Earth. He cared about his mission because he fell in love with middle Earth. Had he not been elevated to Gandalf the White explicitly to compete his task reminding him he doesn't belong there, I could very much see him having gone the way of Radagast, being a force for good in middle Earth for a long time.

Saruman, for all his faults, was correct, Gandalf's love of the haflings and the good of middle earth was making him complacent.

[–] BearGun@ttrpg.network 2 points 4 days ago

That's a fair point, i can absolutely see Gandalf the Grey justifying with something like "there is more evil in this world than just Sauron".

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