#rbox

this is the bit i was talking about before, where gandalf is definitely breaking some rules and/or really overemphasizing how much being a maia of extremely decreased circumstances gives him insight into the actions of Power Beyond The World in order to just say straight out “yeah god is directly causing these things to happen to you and bilbo personally, because you, as hobbits/hobbits with a touch of Elve, are especially equipped to succeed at ring-having.”

again, i know eru resurrects him & thus gandalf is even more our closest explicit connection to it in the books, but he’s So Embodied that imo there’s no way he’s doing any of this based on anything other than 1. dim memories of like, sheet music he memorized in the beginning of time or 2. just looking at random world events and going ‘yeah that has god vibes to it probably. that seems like something god would do. i would know, it used to be my children’s choir director, this is just like when it “reassigned” the vocal parts so that the disruptive maia wouldn’t be standing next to each other anymore.’)