SilberFaust
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I stopped following the class somewhere along the Council of Elrond, and recently started again from the beginning.
In lesson 6 you talk about Gandalf's very minor compliment to Gil-galad and Elendil in calling their deeds 'not wholly vain'. I had a thought that Gandalf did not mean to say their deeds were mostly vain, but to say other deeds (like the White Council banishing Sauron from Dol Guldur, and maybe even the victory in the Battle of Five Armies) were, in fact, wholly vain, and all you can do is look through their clothes and look for loose coins.
In lesson 6 you talk about Gandalf's very minor compliment to Gil-galad and Elendil in calling their deeds 'not wholly vain'. I had a thought that Gandalf did not mean to say their deeds were mostly vain, but to say other deeds (like the White Council banishing Sauron from Dol Guldur, and maybe even the victory in the Battle of Five Armies) were, in fact, wholly vain, and all you can do is look through their clothes and look for loose coins.