![]() ![]() “It’s a pity Bilbo didn’t kill him when he had the chance,” Frodo muses about Gollum, after learning that the creature is tracking the Fellowship in hopes of stealing back the Ring. ![]() ![]() However, in a very stirring scene from The Fellowship of the Ring, Gollum is discussed through the lens of pity. And while for much of The Two Towers and Return of the King his antics do provide a sort of comic relief, it is always matched with uneasiness and distaste for his darker, more murderous side. His only desire is to hold the One Ring once more, and he behaves violently, ruthlessly, selfishly, and manipulatively in order to satisfy his lust for the Ring. By the time we meet him, he has become a gnarled, ashen, skeletal version of his past self (a sort of Hobbit, in fact). Gollum is certainly one of the most distasteful characters Tolkien ever created. One trend I noticed throughout the day was the exclamation of, “They should have just killed Gollum right there!” We were all, more or less, big Tolkien fans, and during the 12-hour marathon we had many conversations about themes, characters, and the like. In preparation for the release of Peter Jackson’s the hobbit, I recently watched all three Lord of the Rings films with a small group of friends. ![]()
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