If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely invo…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door. ✨ Fictional character: Gandalf. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, en.wikiquote.org. 2001.
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If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door. ✨ Fictional character: Gandalf. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, en.wikiquote.org. 2001.

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