why didn’t gandalf just carry the ring to mordor himself with these tongs
like i’m picturing him being really careful and looking at it and carrying it exactly like this while walking or riding through the woods and across rivers and up mountains and through valleys and he doesn’t drop it even once except at the very end where he tidily drops it into the volcano. frodo sam and the crew and even gollum wholly undisturbed. sauron can’t find him bc of the meditative aura surrounding him which is generated by his immense focus on not dropping it
“hold out your hand, Frodo – don’t worry, it’s quite cool”
if the piece of metal you just yoinked out of a blazing fire is so fuckin’ cool why are you holding it with tongs ya eejit
He means cool in the 😎 sense.
Gandalf knows all the hip slang in all the tongues of elves, dwarves, and men
