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and I indeed think it was possible that Gollum could have been redeemed
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In fact, he's on the brink of redemption - on the stairs to Cirith Ungol. And it is most sad that it is Sam's part to frighten possible redemption away - with what he imagines Gollum's 'sneaking' startled from sleep. You (innumerable literary critics I mean under you here) tell me LoTR is 'black'n'white'! One of the best heroes to destroy what may have turned out one of the best eventsof the story! Yet again, to quote Lewis, 'simple evil is often used by God to produce complex Good'. or Tolkien himself: 'For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined' - who knows, would the Ring fall into the Cracks of Doom if only Gollum would have been truly redeemed? I know, it is a bit unfair to compare Sam with Melkor - not the same weight, but the result is similar, up to a point.