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With the ring destroyed, I believe Smeagol would have perished - the force binding him to Arda would be gone - he could die in peace. That to me adds to his demise, he was going to die if the ring were to be destroyed, and he died trying to prevent that... perhaps if this weren't the case, Gandalf would have hoped to have begun to heal him... perhaps this may have involved him sailing West. However, I don't see him shacking up with Frodo and Sam up there in Bag End!
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'A thinking tyrant, it seemed to Vetinari, had a much harder job than a ruler raised to power by some idiot system like democracy. At least HE could tell the people he was THEIR fault.'
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