What was Gandalf doing for 17 years?

Over the next 17 years, Gandalf travels extensively, searching for answers on the ring. He finds some answers in Isildur's scroll, in the archives of Minas Tirith. Gandalf searches long and hard for Gollum, often assisted by Aragorn, who eventually succeeds in capturing Gollum.

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What did Frodo do for 17 years?

Frodo came of age as Bilbo left the Shire. Frodo inherited Bag End and Bilbo's ring. Gandalf, uncertain about the origin of the ring, warned Frodo to avoid using it and to keep it secret. Frodo kept it hidden for the next seventeen years, and it gave him the same longevity it had given Bilbo.

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What was Gandalf doing while he was away?

Bilbo learns the reason Gandalf left the company near Mirkwood: he was fighting alongside the council of wizards to drive the Necromancer out of the forest.

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Did 17 years pass in Lord of the Rings?

Answer and Explanation: The Lord of the Rings roughly spans 20 years. There is a 17-year gap in the first and second chapters where Bilbo leaves the Shire (3001), and Gandalf returns to inform Frodo about the One Ring (3018).

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How long was Gandalf gone after fighting the Balrog?

Gandalf was himself utterly spent in the battle, and after the fall of the Balrog, he too collapsed into darkness and died. For nineteen days Gandalf's body lay on the mountain, until his spirit was sent back to complete his mission in Middle-earth, and thus he returned to life as Gandalf the White.

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Why did it take Gandalf 17 years?

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Why was Gandalf so afraid of the Balrog?

Gandalf was scared of this beast because he knew how powerful it was since it was a Maia like himself, but it was purely evil.

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Did Gandalf know there was a Balrog?

However, in the Tolkien novel, Gandalf actually never knew about the Balrog. All he knew was that Moria had been evacuated because of something called Durin's Bane, and that it still lurks inside. And while he does know that Orcs attacked the Dwarven kingdom, it was many years ago, and so he hoped they were gone.

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Why was Arwen's life tied to the Ring?

Arwen isn't necessarily dying because of the Ring, but now that she is mortal, she is dying through the slow decaying of time. Arwen also faces the same fate as all those in Middle Earth should the Ring Bearer fail his mission. So in that way, her fate is tied to the Ring.

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Why does Legolas only say one line to Frodo?

Although the trilogy is 9+ hours long, Legolas and Frodo are only in about half of Fellowship and the very end of Return of the King, so there isn't a very big "pool" of screen time together for them to exchange any lines.

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How old was Frodo when he died?

Frodo and Bilbo were comfortable and well off until T.A. 3001. At this time, Bilbo threw an enormous party to celebrate his 111th birthday, and Frodo's 33rd, the date of Frodo's coming of age. At this party Bilbo gave his farewell speech, and made his long-planned "disappearance" and withdrawal from the Shire.

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Why did Gandalf forget Moria?

Why didn't he? He had been through Moria (more than once), but if memory serves he had only gone East to West, never West to East. So when he came to this place before, he may not have realized it was a fork in the road as he was coming out if the fork, not into the fork.

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Was Gandalf alive when Sauron was defeated?

Gandalf wasn't in Middle Earth at the time. The Battle of the Last Alliance took place at the end of the Second Age, and the arrival of the Ishtari (Wizards) from Valinor took place at around the year 1000 of the Third Age.

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Why did Gandalf forget who he was?

After he was sent back, Gandalf would have recognized his friends, because they were all part of the job he was sent back to do. But he had moved on from thinking of himself as "Gandalf" because he had died and become something else.

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Was Frodo given immortality?

As a Ring-bearer, Frodo earned a spot in the Undying Lands at the end of Lord of the Rings, but his possible immortality there was left ambiguous. At the end of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo sets sail for the Undying Lands, which implies that he will live in peace and harmony for all eternity.

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How old was Bilbo when he died?

He had already celebrated his 131st birthday, becoming the oldest Hobbit in the history of Middle-earth. As a mortal, he died in the West. While sailing west, Bilbo composed a last poem looking back on Middle-earth in farewell.

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What is Legolas syndrome?

The actor is suffering from Legolas Syndrome — where you accidentally get cast into a role that suits you far more than your real-life looks, leaving you with a tricky predicament after the wrap party. Do you A) nick all the costumes and stay in character the rest of your working life, or B)

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Why didn t Frodo acknowledge Legolas?

This is because Frodo's mind was distracted with the gravity of his mission when he met Legolas so he completely spaced during their introduction. Frodo didn't want to ask during the Fellowship reuniting as it would seem impolite.

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Why didn't Frodo use the Ring more?

Hobbits are simple creatures and do not wish for much, so there is nothing for the Ring to use against a hobbit. Frodo is the hobbit that is corrupted the most next to Gollum and Bilbo, which is why he is unable to throw the Ring into the fire.

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Is Aragorn's son immortal?

However, he does not possess the ability to live forever, and he cannot choose to be mortal or immortal like Arwen, the half-Elf he loves and eventually claims as his wife. Because Aragorn is mortal and Arwen chose to remain in Gondor and become mortal, their son, Eldarion, is mortal as well, despite his Elven lineage.

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Is Arwen's mother Galadriel's daughter?

She appears in the novel The Lord of the Rings. Arwen is one of the half-elven who lived during the Third Age; her father was Elrond half-elven, lord of the Elvish sanctuary of Rivendell, while her mother was the Elf Celebrian, daughter of the Elf-queen Galadriel, ruler of Lothlórien.

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How many children did Arwen and Aragorn have?

According to 'The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen', from Appendix A of LotR, Aragorn II (Elessar) and Arwen had at least three children: one son, Eldarion, who succeeded his father as king, and at least two daughters, as there is a mention of unnamed 'daughters'.

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Who woke the Balrog?

For more than five millennia, the Balrog hibernated in his deep hiding place at the roots of the mountains in Khazad-dûm. He remained undisturbed throughout the Second Age and most of the Third, before the mithril-miners of dwarf-King Durin VI awoke him in T.A. 1980.

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Why didn t Gandalf warn the fellowship about Moria?

Therefore, the only explanation as to why Gandalf doesn't reveal the Balrog's presence to the others earlier in the films, is that it is a plot device used by the writers and the creative team in order to increase the dramatic tension of Frodo's decision.

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Is Moria ever reclaimed?

Even after the end of the War, many Dwarves refused to reclaim Moria, partially because of the Durin's Bane. Years later however, the Dwarves managed to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.

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