[Glenethor]

#22!
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Rosa, I respectfully disagree. You didn't use the whole quote of the passage. What you cite is Sam's perception of the interaction. The voice in the preceding paragraph is clearly Frodo's. It is a bit ambiguous, but that does not negate the fact that a significant theme of Tolkien's (and certain branches of Christianity) is that Evil is subordinate to Good, and Good will always conquer. It is an age old question, which is beyond the scope of this debate (don't want to get another thread locked down, now, do we? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) that I think Tolkien deals with, especially in the character of Gollum. As Gandalf says, in both the book and the movie, 'my heart tells me that Gollum still has some part to play for good or ill.' Now, I am a Christian, nominally C of E, and I find this question as fascinating as it is valid: Whence came Evil? Many argue that Evil doesn't exist, that it is all in the realm of psychopathology. I disagree, and my academic background is in psychology. Evil is real, but the mystery is, why does God allow it to? There are a million answers to that question.

In any case, we have different opinions, and that is ok, eh?
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Jeez, I love that movie!
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