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Lyta_Underhill · 12-06-2003, 12:46 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>It said that he would have gone to Mount Doom with them then the ring would have taken him and Gollum would have taken it (at mount doom) and knowing that it should be destroyed would have jumped into mount doom with the ring.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Did Tolkien say this? I must have missed that part. Certainly Gollum would not have wanted Sauron to have the Ring. Perhaps he would have fallen in at the last, even without the struggle with Frodo at the Sammath Naur, as the words of Frodo foretold, for the Ring had abandoned Gollum and would not suffer him to possess it again. I can't see Gollum throwing himself into the Fire for any other purpose than desperation, to keep Sauron from getting the Ring--and he would be appalled at the very idea of destroying it.<P>Cheers,<BR>Lyta

12-06-2003, 12:46 PM	#20
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>It said that he would have gone to Mount Doom with them then the ring would have taken him and Gollum would have taken it (at mount doom) and knowing that it should be destroyed would have jumped into mount doom with the ring.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Did Tolkien say this? I must have missed that part. Certainly Gollum would not have wanted Sauron to have the Ring. Perhaps he would have fallen in at the last, even without the struggle with Frodo at the Sammath Naur, as the words of Frodo foretold, for the Ring had abandoned Gollum and would not suffer him to possess it again. I can't see Gollum throwing himself into the Fire for any other purpose than desperation, to keep Sauron from getting the Ring--and he would be appalled at the very idea of destroying it.<P>Cheers,<BR>Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”