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Gandalf was doing a lot of other things behind the scenes. He spent a couple hundred years studying Sauron and what the one true ring looked like so he recognised it and knew it’s power and how to destroy it.
He was playing 4D chess the whole time. It was a delicate balancing act of uniting humans and other races, distracting Sauron and the ring wraiths so Frodo could get to Mordor. >

Dude was a giant stoner and then sacrificed himself to become the white wizard. >

Gandalf was doing a lot of other things behind the scenes. He spent a couple hundred years studying Sauron and what the one true ring looked like so he recognised it and knew it’s power and how to destroy it.
He was playing 4D chess the whole time. It was a delicate balancing act of uniting humans and other races, distracting Sauron and the ring wraiths so Frodo could get to Mordor. >

Dude was a giant stoner and then sacrificed himself to become the white wizard.