Chapter 4

People began to spread away, and Gandalf beckoned me towards him. "You do realise that you could have volunteered to take Frodo to the mountain yourself. It would take about 3 days!, and save us a lot of trouble."

"I'm well aware of this," I said. "But middle earth needs change. We have had peace for too long, and now we are no longer peaceful. The governing is becoming poor, people are beginning to waste away and starve. Even if there was no Sauron we would be at the brink of war very soon. If we create change this way, we do not have to blame ourselves. The lesson would be greater."

"Your wisdom astounds me, time and time again." Replied Gandalf. "I still do not understand why you are not counted among the wise." "It is because I don't let people know of me old friend" I said with a wry smile "Roaming in the shadows suites me best. I will see how things go, before making a move." And with that I withdrew into the shadows and left. I had some very deep thinking to do.

I sat up high in a pine tree of the fanghorn forest. This forest helped me think, and cleared my head. Maybe it was because this forest out of them all, reminded me of myself. Old. full of anger, but somehow still calm and collected. Wind teased the edges of my cowl, but didn't manage to pull it off. The wind felt good.

Now, I told myself. You need a plan. I had already come up with part of my plot. Currently I was going to watch the fellowships progress. If it was a total failure, I would send a message to Gandalf, with some feedback of the main bad points. Hopefully Gandalf would then come up with a plan that could keep them on track. If the mission was going great, I would leave them to it. If they were going mediocre, I would join them, at least for a small amount of time. That was the best plan I could think of. The most successful plans tend to be simple. The plan for the fellowship was basically- get Frodo to mount doom, kill anything that tries to kill anyone, keep going no matter what until mission succeeds. See- simple. But not easy.

With a plan in mind, I set off to watch over the fellowship.

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