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Re: Most Tragic Figure
My questioning of Gollum was based on the original description of 'tragic' in the first post. <scroll up> Odysseus says a tragic character, "was a basically worthy or great man (or woman) who is brought low by a combination of fate and one fault or weakness." Based on that def, Gollum was NOT tragic. He was never worthy or great by any stretch of the imagination.
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"He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer."</p>
-A Short Rest, The Hobbit</p></blockquote></p>
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