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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
Well, you may certainly think this if you like, but you are not in agreement with the text...of which I believe somebody already helpfully provided a relevant passage.
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And even so he would never have just forsaken it, or cast it aside. It was not Gollum, Frodo, but the Ring itself that decided things. The Ring left him.
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This does not mean that the Ring is sentient; that is only one way of looking at the meaning of those words. Of
course Gollum would never have "forsaken it, or cast it aside", it was his precious; what happened was that he lost it. And fate so happened that Bilbo found it. This is a way of explaining to Frodo how such things happen, how he came to be in the situation he was left in, as a Ringbearer. Yes, the Ring left Gollum, and yes, the Ring decided the future course of Bilbo and Frodo's lives, but it did not do so sentiently.