Listen Gandalf, you were going by 'the Grey' until last week so you're probably aware people's nicknames change. He was called 'Grima Sensiblefriend' when I hired him, and by the time I realised that may have been a misnomer I was all wrinkly in the chair.

"Well, why do you call yourself Gandalf Storm-Crow? -oh, thats NOT your real name? Its just a mean name people who dont like you gave you? Not so fun when people do it to you, now is it? How do you think poor Grima feels?"

It was not about trust, but what side they thought would win, and their inclination to side with the enemy if they thought they would win.

Look at the billionaires, elon cuck for instance, they sided with overthrowing democracy after they saw biden was going to bitch out.

“You have to understand, he was very…” stares into the diatance “persuasive.” shoots a look back at Gandalf “I don’t wanna talk about it.”

It's a little on the nose, it would be like Governments blindly trusting Plantyr knowing where the name comes from... wait.

Aw, no! My wife’s gonna kill me!

Didn't his wife die in childbirth many years before the events of the War of the Ring?