He readily accuses Gollum of premeditating hobbit- cide. He wants to tie him up and leave him for dead. Sam still has nothing but name-calling and suspicion. Frodo comes quickly to pity him and cautiously seek his aid. When Frodo and Sam finally encounter Gollum on the outskirts of Mordor, both are at first repulsed by the creature. Gollum! I’ll give him gollum in his throat, if ever I get my hands on his neck. In The Two Towers, Sam has the strongest, most damning language for Gollum. “There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as through a chink in the dark: light out of the past.” Samwise’s ‘Stinker’ Though at least the White Wizard admits some semblance of possible sanctification. Gandalf says, “I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.” For my part I hope never to look upon him again.” He is hated from the start, such that he cannot be acknowledged as a being of even remote equality to a meager hobbit.Īragorn, too, who in the books catches Gollum in the Dead Marshes and brings him to Mirkwood to be kept by the elves and interrogated by Gandalf, says that traveling with Gollum is “the worst part of all my journey.”Īragorn seems to have no sympathy for the creature. What an abominable notion,” said Frodo.Īlready, in the earliest thoughts of these innocent and yet untraveled hobbits, Gollum is utterly dehumanized. “I can’t believe that Gollum was connected with hobbits, however distantly. What he knows about the creature comes from Bilbo, and it is all loathsome. When Gandalf first speaks to Frodo about Gollum, once called Smèagol, Frodo has nothing but disgust.
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