On Grand Gestures and JudgementOne of my favorite moments from the film The Hobbit took place between Galadriel and Gandalf. Now when I say ‘one of my favorite’, there were not many in this film, despite my intense bias towards anything Tolkien. In this scene, Gandalf ponders his own willingness to use Bilbo Baggins (a halfling), as the instigator in a high stakes game of Middle-Earth Risk; darkness is on the move and the forces of light are racing to meet it by strategically placing themselves in particul