We saw how this desire for play proves to be utterly crucial in the history of Middle-earth. I wrote a few weeks ago about how Gandalf loved to play in order to find some rest from his labours and how the Shire became especially important to him to allow him to do this.
Peter Xavier Price imagines the Council of Elrond in Rivendell
When Elrond asks Gandalf to speak at the Council in Rivendell he introduces him by saying, “in all this matter he has been the chief”. When I thought to spend a few weeks reflecting upon themes from The Fellowship of the Ring over the summer before continuing with The Two Towers in September I did not expect to spend much of the time writing about Gandalf but so it has proved. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien (Harper Collins 1991) p.245
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