Additionally, it doesn't seem to me as though he blames Thrór (and, by extension, Thorin) for his increasing gold-lust in the days before Smaug; he refers to it as a "sickness of the mind". He saw Thrór as ill, not as greedy. I'm going to assume he's basing that on what happens with Thorin. Especially since Bilbo drops out of the almost-lyrical way he's been speaking and says, simply, "bad things will follow".
This is driving me crazy because I haven't read LotR or SIL in ages and I don't remember where I read it/if it's accurate, but how much did the possession of a dwarven ring of power play into this? Somehow I thought Thror had the ring along with the key and map, and Gandalf got it before Sauron did. I don't have time to reread everything! Woe. (Well, if I gave up fanfic as my recreational reading, but -- heh.) Or was it just the Arkenstone whipping up unhealthy feelings of greed and reclusion? Perhaps related: You mentioned Galadrial's zing at humans .Was that in reference to how the rings of power ensnared them?
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Date: 2013-01-21 06:27 pm (UTC)This is driving me crazy because I haven't read LotR or SIL in ages and I don't remember where I read it/if it's accurate, but how much did the possession of a dwarven ring of power play into this? Somehow I thought Thror had the ring along with the key and map, and Gandalf got it before Sauron did. I don't have time to reread everything! Woe. (Well, if I gave up fanfic as my recreational reading, but -- heh.) Or was it just the Arkenstone whipping up unhealthy feelings of greed and reclusion? Perhaps related: You mentioned Galadrial's zing at humans .Was that in reference to how the rings of power ensnared them?