Gandalf!

He's back!

And, sadly, I knew it was coming.

While watching the FotR movie, I commented on Gandalf's death to my brother. I told him that I figured that he couldn't be dead yet, because the wise mentor isn't allowed to die til almost the end. My brother, being the secretive creature that he is, stared at me with a guilty look and commented that Gandalf the Grey wouldn't be coming back. That, of course, led me to the realization that Gandalf would come back as Gandalf the White. I came to this conclusion mostly because of the Christian implications on how Gandalf is the "Jesus Christ figure" in the LotR series.

I just didn't expect him to come back in Chapter 5 of The Two Towers, "The White Rider". That was a lot sooner than I could have expected, or even hoped. But let me just say, welcome back Gandalf, even if you are a little different. I've missed you greatly.

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Well, I'm almost two months into this project and I've finished a grand total of... zero items off the list. I'm not going to give up, but I'm starting to realize how impossible a year is for the time length of this project. Especially because I have other responsibilities and readings for school. I still want to work my way through this list, but not in a year. I feel like this quotation from Arthur Ashe sums up my feelings nicely, "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome".

Til next time, happy reading and DFTBA!