I thought the whole point is because they had no power or ambition, they were much less likely to be corrupted by the ring.
Also didn’t he just recruit Frodo? Sam was only there cause he overhead the plan, and Pip & Merry only so happened to bump into them along the way while stealing corn.
Well yes, we could send Glorfindel who has already fought a Balrog before. But, hear me out, what about this pudgy gardener instead?
On one hand we have a guy that is so awesome our version of god resurrected him out of respect, on the other hand we have a guy who blows a pretty nice smoke ring.
As a pudgy gardener, I resemble that remark.
Elrond: At least there are fewer this time.
Well have you ever recruited anybody other than weirdos for an adventure? Yeah those were totally normal, well adjusted people that wanted to do an overnight building a log cabin on the side of a ski resort to smoke weed in during the winter.
We’ve all been there, Gandalf.
He should check out what Merlin did last time he overindulged, common wizard mistake
