Wow, so high level of discussion here! I'm mesmerized [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] my knowledge of Tolkien seems so poor compare to yours.
Thanks littlemanpoet for encouraging me and Sharon, I have a aunt who lives in Houston, it helps a bit with english [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
I would like to come back on this famous scene wich :
sharon's quote
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"It's almost as if, for a minute, the reader is given the chance to see and feel things the way Frodo does. Few of us have the light in our being to the same degree as Frodo. Indeed, without this scene, most of our attitudes and responses are probably closer to those of Sam. But, because this scene is known to us and we are given a glimpse of the hobbit buried deep inside Gollum, we can begin to feel and respond in a way which is closer to Frodo."
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( hehehe, I'm learning, i'm learning... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img])
What I feel when I read this scene, is not frodo's pov but Gollum's pov.
Tolkien is machiavelic for diving us deeply in the core of Gollum's dark reflect and make us realized, unexpectedly, his inner turmoils could be more than low evil thoughts.
I feel, a flick of humanity, almost forgotten, buried by seductive temptations and awaken from no where by Frodo's behaviour certainly recalling him reminders of his humanity past.
I feel, his sorrow, his sadness, his despair, his weariness not only for him, but also for Frodo.
Because, parodoxically, in that moment, he is allowed to be the best/closest person who could understand Frodo's ordeals and inner battle, experiencing it before him.
I feel, disgust for himself, for his own weakness and cowardice but also fatalism, so long he had been resigned to submitt the ring.
I feel admiration , respect and yes, sympathy for that "twin" of his who chose, in spite all sufferings and loss, to keep on fighting the corruption whereas he had renounced.
The touching knee's gesture may be a repentence gesture, as he has lot to be forgiven if he does want forgiveness, but that may be a mark of honour and rescpect too. The aknowledgement from a proud elder to a younger to keep on going on.
Gollum for me incarnates an ever stortured spirit whose personnality had be broken and torn in thousands pieces by all the passionate feelings inspired by the ring power abilities.
That scattered being might explain the quasi schizophrenic behaviour he had, thinking of gollum/smeagol, the non- human part, servant of the ring and the human one so helpless against it.
Both of them are slaves of their passions. They want to be and are ruled with the illusion they are the one who would rule- ring's perversity-
But in that moment of grace, lost in the worst place ever, they were reunited.
For the first time through ages, it might be possible that gollum unweil his own inner being or maybe "his own light" ? to us, a free thinking human being, lost and spoiled.
I told you Tolkien is machiavelic to imagine that scene which make us, readers pity Gollum -- in that way I joined the idea of frodo's pity awareness Gandalf was talking about- and grieve his loss for the light world.