system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[LOTR] [FOTR MOVIE] Why did Gandalf want Frodo to decide which path they take when they were stuck in the snow storm on the mountain? Didn't he absolutely not want to go through the mines?
gpt
Gandalf was a believer in fate (naturally) and believed that the ring came to Frodo as a result of it and, thus, the fate of the future of Middle Earth was *already* in his hands. So this was an indirect way of having fate decide their path.