They Will Gnaw One Another With Words (Ailments - "Headache")

[huinare]

Title: They Will Gnaw One Another With Words

Comments

[hhimring]

I suppose it could be mainly directed at Gandalf.
Would that mean that he targets the Shire, in your view, also mainly because of Gandalf?

[huinare]

Largely, yes (probably not "mainly," as there are several primary reasons to my mind, but I won’t spew a dissertation about it here). I think there’s ample suggestion in Unfinished Tales that Saruman was nursing ever-increasing envy and scorn of Gandalf for a couple millenia. I could definitely see that coming to a head in really overblown, paranoid ways once Saruman’s ruin has quite unhinged him.

[hhimring]

Anyway--he and Grima are certainly gnawing each other, but there is more depth to it, here.

[huinare]

Bwaha. Gandalf saying that of those two baffled me for a time, because I never saw Gríma as in a position to do so in Orthanc. Apparently he is, now.

[ysilme]

That works very well for me. Good job!

[huinare]

Thank you for reading and commenting. Glad it worked for you, I know this wasn't the most lighthearted drabble set (still isn't I suppose, since I've neglected yet to finish it).