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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 675225" data-attributes="member: 2020">On a more serious note ...  If that was a tribute to the Scouring of the Shire, then it was a tribute the likes of which would have made Saruman proud.  After all, Saruman trashed a lot of trees, knocked down some houses in Hobbiton and Bywater, caused some minor burning here and there, and made a lot of hobbits generally miserable.  He caused some water pollution, definitely ruined the aethetics of The Water, closed all the Inns (a real outrage, that one), and stole all the Pipe-Weed (an even greater outrage, especially from a hobbit point of view.)  Not bad.  Not bad.  However, what the Mirror of Galadriel showed was just a wee bit worse than that.  Heh.  Just a wee minor bit worse.  I saw a desert, stripped of all trees, brush, grass, and weeds ... with it implied nothing would ever grow there again (akin to the desert before the Morannon, for those who have read TTT.)  I saw Hobbiton and Bywater burned, completely destroyed, with the implication that all the Shire suffered the same fate.  I saw hobbits massacred, and those who survived taken as slaves to be worked until they died .. with the implication that this was the fate of all in the Shire who yet lived.  Even the sky was clouded with a perpetual gloom of smoke, a tribute to the colossal destruction below.  As for The Water, it had sort of vanished ... or perhaps that deadly, poisoned slick around the slave Mill was the former Water?  Not that it could be distinguished from the burned, poisoned, and ruined ground that surrounded it.  A land diseased, defiled beyond all healing, unless the Great Sea should come in and wash it away into oblivion, to paraphrase Tolkien.  I would like to have seen Frodo, Gandalf, or anyone else try to resurrect the Shire from THAT fate.  Aye, it would have made Saruman proud.  Given ten thousand new Uruk-Hai and about a hundred years of effort, he might - might, I stress - have accomplished destruction of such a magnitude.  Or, as Galadriel put it:  It is what will happen, if you should fail.    I suppose that is Galadriel:  blunt and to the point.  Poor Frodo ...</blockquote>

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