Dead? Maybe I were. But all that befall the world eventually lead to good, for even evil unknowingly serves the higher good over time.

[ Of course he met his fate by going because they went through Moria. Yet if they had not he would not have returned as The White, which would have undoubtedly led to the victory of Sauron and his ally Saruman. What terrible things happened, he will make sure Frodo sees and realize what good they eventually led to.

Yet what little words Frodo spoke were enough for Gandalf to draw conclusions. The Hobbit thought he was dead, yet someone told him he was not. This should not be possible, this is not how it happened in Middle-Earth. The most probable alternative is hat Frodo does not come from middle-Earth, much like Reno and many others. ]

You are on the twenty-second floor of the tower if you want to know. How, in what purpose... So many questions and so few answers I have to offer you. Yet I am certain it is no hazard if you found your way to this place as many have before you.

[ Obviously Gandalf returned the embrace and laughed, albeit shortly. he could tell Frodo was not as he once were. They had much to talk about now, but he could see the paintings on this floor were also something that pained Frodo, as much he may like some of them. ]

But let us walk to less nostalgic floors. There is much we need to discuss, all in time.