Re: Where is the outrage?Karl
in response to
by
posted on
Oct 17, 2011 04:27PM
I think you are absolutely wrong. I don't think he would even get in bed with himself. I think he only does because he must. Just as Gollum pursues the ring....................
video ........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_aziIIp8U8&feature=relmfu
or text:
Tolkien's legendarium character |
Gollum, Slinker, Sneak, Stinker, Trahald ("true" Westron name) |
Hobbit |
The Hobbit The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King |
Gollum is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He was introduced in the author's fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became an important supporting character in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings.
Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit[1] of the River-folk, who lived near the Gladden Fields.[2] Originally known as "Sméagol", he was later named "Gollum" after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat".[3] His life was extended far beyond its natural limits by the effects of possessing the One Ring, which he called "my precious" and "my birthday present"; it enslaved him to the point that he pursued it for the rest of his life after losing it to Bilbo Baggins.
During his centuries under the Ring's influence, he developed a kind of split personality: "Sméagol" still vaguely remembered things like friendship and love, while "Gollum" was a slave to the Ring who knew only treachery and violence. In The Two Towers, Samwise Gamgee named the good personality "Slinker", and the bad personality "Stinker". The two personalities had a love/hate relationship, and often quarrelled when Gollum talked to himself (as Tolkien puts it in The Hobbit, "through never having anyone else to speak to").