"The Mission [of the Fellowship of the Ring] Now Hangs in the Balance...Just One Move to the Right or the Left and the Mission Will Fail...and All Will Be Lost."

Meanwhile as Pippin & Gandalf look out over the high towers and walls of the White City, all hope sinks within Peregrin Took's heart, and, turning to Gandalf, he declares:

"So we've sent Frodo and Sam to their deaths!"

The ever wise wizard responds: "The hope [of the Fellowship] was only ever a faint and fragile one."


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