I meet Gandalf on the mountain top; and as we fall, on the way down, with the Balrog raging below, his venomous steam of poison spitting up at us, and as we descend into Moria—Gandalf asks me,
“what would you say was your greatest sin in your lifetime?”
I reply, without hesitation,
“naïveté .... what was yours?”
“Faith in humanity....” and adds, “but not faith in the Hobbits....”
and as we fall I find I have a moment to wonder:
how many lifetimes for the pirate to arrive on time?
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