“Your Fingers Would Remember Their Old Strength Better, if They Grasped a Sword-hilt.” Gandalf and The Healing of Théoden by Stephen Winter

Originally posted on Wisdom from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien (Harper Collins 1991, 2007) pp. 671-677 It is in the record for the 2nd of March in the year 3019 of the Third Age in the Tale of Years that we are told explicitly, “Gandalf comes to Edoras and…

“Your Fingers Would Remember Their Old Strength Better, if They Grasped a Sword-hilt.” Gandalf and The Healing of Théoden by Stephen Winter