[Imladris]

Thank you Willie!!!!!! At last someone understands that I don't think it was wrong for Sam to distrust Gollum/Smeagol. I myself would have been mistrustful of him. I have a problem with the way Sam treated Gollum (bullying, insulting, etc). And I think that if Sam hadn't been so bigoted he would have seen the Smeagol side growing stronger and stronger.

Just because Sam didn't understand what Gollum/Smeagol had gone through doesn't give him the right to treat him like dirt. Gandalf understood him and had he born the One Ring? No. That kind of wisdom all men possess I think, the wisdom to pity the miserable, the wretched, the criminal. I am not excusing any of the actions of Gollum, not in the least. Sam was right not to trust him: wrong to treat him like dirt. That part of Gollum's mind that was still his own was growing, struggling, being choked by weeds of hate, anger, and the lure of the Ring, but growing under love, pity, and kindness. As far as I'm conscerned, Sam fed the weeds.