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Haunting Spirit
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Re: Gollum
You are not alone, I am here with my two cents to prevent an inbreeding of ideas. <img src=wink.gif ALT="
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1. Twisted desires
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Quote:<hr> He was interested in roots and beginnings; he dived into deep pools; he burrowed under trees and growing plants; he tunnelled into green mounds; and he ceased to look up at the hill-tops, or the leavess on trees, or the flowers opening in the air: his head and his eyes were downward.<hr></blockquote>
This was before he ever saw the ring. When the Ring began to possess him, it turned his love of deep, dark secrets into an obsession, a hatred of the light. There was no conscious desire for revenge at this point, just a twisting of his original inclinations.
2. Abandonment
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Quote:<hr> That the Ring saw that Gollum was not as evil as it first thought (looking from the perspective that the Ring is it's own, but more on that later) and therefore it left him,<hr></blockquote>
I don't think that the Ring was looking for someone particularly evil, as it would be able to twist anyone to its will, it just wanted to get out of the river at that point. It probably would have been just as happy with Déagol as Sméagol, but the "aura of desire," if you will, was already working on Sméagol. It left Gollum because Sauron was turning his will to call his Ring and his power back, and Gollum sure wasn't going to leave the caves anytime soon.
3. Why did he go to Mordor?
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Quote:<hr> Mordor draws all wicked things, and the Dark Power was bending all its will to gather them there. The Ring of the Enemy would leave its mark, too, leave him open to summons. And all folk were whispering then of the new Shadow in the South, and its hatred of the West. There were his fine new friends, who would help him in his revenge!<hr></blockquote>
'Nuff said.
4. Revenge
I don't think the desire for revenge was really awakened until the Ring was "stolen" from him by Bilbo. And, of course, once he started on the quest for revenge, plenty more objects to be revenged upon would appear.
5. The Ring as a Drug
If it's not illegal, it should be.
It's street name is Power, right? Highly addictive, that.
-kqy (I can abbreviate my name and it's still the same! Sorry, couldn't help myself.)<img src=smile.gif ALT="
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The days are fated to be filled with marvels.</p>