After the One Ring is destroyed and the Eagles bear Frodo and Sam from the slopes of Mount Doom, Sam wakes and is greeted by Gandalf, whom he last saw plummeting to certain death into the depths of Khazad-dûm alongside the Balrog. But instead of the familiar Gandalf the Grey, he is greeted by Gandalf “robed in white, his beard now gleaming like pure snow in the twinkling of the leafy sunlight.”
Easter's Answer to Sam's Questions
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