But 'possession' satisfied, I think he would then have sacrificed himself for Frodo's sake and have voluntarily cast himself into the fiery abyss." Certainly at some point not long before the end he would have stolen the Ring or taken it by violence (as he does in the actual Tale). I think that in some queer twisted and pitiable way Gollum would have tried (not maybe with conscious design) to satisfy both. Though the love would have been strengthened daily it could not have wrested the mastery from the Ring. The interest would have shifted to Gollum, I think, and the battle that would have gone on between his repentance and his new love on one side and the Ring. (He did reach the point of pity at last (III 221-222) but for the good of Gollum too late.) If he had, what could then have happened? The course of the entry into Mordor and the struggle to reach Mount Doom would have been different, and so would the ending. " Sam could hardly have acted differently. His repentance is blighted and all Frodo's pity is (in a sense) wasted. when Sam fails to note the complete change in Gollum's tone and aspect. For me perhaps the most tragic moment in the Tale comes in II 323 ff. "If had understood better what was going on between Frodo and Gollum, things might have turned out differently in the end. Tolkien goes so far as to say that Frodo may have been able to redeem Sméagol he says this a few times in his letters, for example in Letter 246 he says: The Two Towers Book IV Chapter 2: "The Passage of the Marshes" Nice hobbit! took cruel rope off Sméagol's leg. "'But Sméagol said he would be very very good. He says this explicitly in The Two Towers: Frodo was the first living thing in a very long time that was nice to him, and he responded to that. I will borrow here from Jason Baker's answer to another question.ĭid Sméagol legitimately care about Frodo? Tolkien said Gollum did come incredibly close to repentance, and the only reason he didn't become a better person is because it would have screwed up the story's climax. I interpret Tolkien's views in a very different way from Richard.
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