Tell me, Gandalf, did you think these plans and schemes of yours would go unnoticed?
Unnoticed? No, I... I'm simply doing what I feel to be right.
Galadriel The dragon has long been on your mind.
This is true, my lady. Smaug owes allegiance to no one, but if he should side with the Enemy... A dragon could be used to terrible effect.
What enemy? Gandalf, the Enemy is defeated. Sauron is vanquished. He can never regain his full strength.
Does it not worry you that the last of the Dwarf-rings should simply vanish along with its bearer? Of the Seven Dwarf-rings, four were consumed by dragons, two were taken by Sauron before he fell in Mordor. The fate of the last Dwarf-ring remains unknown. The ring that was borne by Thrain.
Without the Ruling Ring of Power, the Seven are no value to the Enemy. To control the other Rings, he needs the One. And that Ring was lost long, long ago. It was swept out to sea by the waters of the Anduin.
Gandalf. For four-hundred years, we have lived in peace, a hard-won, Watchful Peace.
Are we- are we at peace? Trolls have come down from the mountains, they are raiding villages, destroying farms. Orcs have attacked us on the road!
Hardly a prelude to war.
Always you must meddle, looking for trouble when none exists.
Galadriel Let him speak.
There is something at work beyond the evil of Smaug. Something far more powerful. We could remain blind to it but it will not be ignoring us, that I can promise you. A sickness lies over the Greenwood. The Woodsmen who live there now call it Mirkwood and, uh, they say...
Well, don't stop now. Tell us what the Woodsmen say.
They speak of a Necromancer living in Dol Guldur, a sorcerer who could summon the dead.
That's absurd. No such power exists in this world. This "Necromancer" is nothing more than a mortal man. A conjurer dabbling in black magic.
And so I thought too, but Radagast had seen...
Radagast? Do not speak to me of Radagast the Brown. He is a foolish fellow.
Well, he's odd, I'll grant you. He lives a solitary life...
It's not that. It's his excessive consumption of mushrooms! They've addled his brain and yellowed his teeth!
