LOTR: Could Gandalf Have Defeated The Witch King In Their One-on-One Battle?
The age-old dichotomy of good versus evil is arguably the most obvious theme in the Lord of the Rings. Among wider themes of nature versus modernization and mechanism, and the mistakes of the past versus the hope and faith to pave a better future, good and evil are at the core of the story. The resounding message in the trilogy is that, if there is love and loyalty, and people who would give your life to protect, good will always prevail, because evil can never be as strong if it doesn’t have something worth fighting for.
There are many figures who represent this battle between good and evil. Some characters are ambiguous between the two, such as Boromir (who has a pure heart, but falls prey to the rings' temptation), or Saruman, (who was once a friend of Gandalf and Galadriel, but has also been persuaded by the false promise of power offered by the evil object.) But most characters fall very definitively on one side or another, for example Sauron being the supreme dark lord, whose sole purpose is to dominate Middle Earth and remove all of the beauty in the world, versus Aragorn, a kind and honorable man from a long line of kings, who will stop at nothing to save his loved ones. And thanks to this duality, a question has arisen among fans of the franchise about two of the key characters on either side, and who would win a fight between them.
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Gandalf the white has got to be one of the most powerful beings to roam Middle Earth, especially in the Third Age when the War of the Ring takes place. He has spent countless years honing his fire skills, traveling through all of the realms and kingdoms he can discover, and learning about the people of the lands, both in books
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