What the heck is the Council of Gondor doing about now? And who are these
guys? I assume they were handpicked by Denethor. If there's any
chance of organized resistence to Aragorn's claim I'd bet this is where it
would originate. Perhaps Aragorn calling the Council of Captains is also
supposed to be a political signal to these bozos. ("Go ahead and try
something. I've got the military in my pocket.") And perhaps
Legolas and Gimli are not innocently visiting Minas Tirith just to visit old
friends. Perhaps they are there to check out the mood of the city, get a
sense of what's going on, and see if Denethor's buddies are burning the
midnight oil in the council chambers of Gondor. Of course, since Denethor
was so paranoid, maybe the Council of Gondor is just a bunch of rubber-stamping
yes-men who'll follow anything that
moves.
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Give a person a fish and he eats for one day. Teach a person to fish and he finds the One Ring, burrows under the Misty Mountains, and eats for the rest of his life.
