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Re: Is mercy for the weak?

Posted By: Stephen, on host 192.212.253.17
Date: Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 15:53:05
In Reply To: Is mercy for the weak? posted by Ferrick on Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 15:47:45:

Spoilers for "Return of the King" follow, but if I'm capable of spoiling a 50-year-old book for you, well...

> If there is one thing we learn from movies and literature it is that you can be sure that an act of mercy will come back and bite you on the arse.
>
> Gandalf and Frodo allow Gollum to live.

But doesn't Gollum's living, you know, save the free people of Middle Earth? If he didn't show up at Mt. Doom, would Frodo have ditched The Ring?

Stephen

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Re: Is mercy for the weak? - Brunnen-G - Thu, 1/2/2003, 16:53:00
- Re: Is mercy for the weak? - Darien - Thu, 1/2/2003, 17:08:58

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