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Re: Gollum
How can you all be so cruel! Gollum was the victim here. Early on in his life he was lead astray down the wrong path. The ring was a drug to him. It willed him to do things and he did them. And soon like all drugs, the ring began to hurt Gollum:
Quote: My birthday-present! It came to me on my birthday, my precious," So he had always said to himself. ... Gollum used to wear it at first, till it tired him; and then he kept it in a pouch nest his skin, till it galled him; and now usually he hid it in a hole in the rock on the island, and was always going back to look at it.
When Gollum and the ring are separated he exhibits the behavior that would fit an addict going through withdrawl.
Example: He goes out into the sunlight and the moonlight(which he hated) in search of the ring.
Finally, when he meets up with Frodo and Frodo shows him compassion, Gollum starts to act nice. Frodo's compassion helped Gollum get out from the spell of the ring. This lasted for all of two seconds, because the REAL bad guy in the story, Samwise, would always push Gollum. That created the slinker/stinker characters.
Gollum did do some bad things, mind you. But he was not a bully, like Sam was. Who would you rather root for, an addict that finally got over the drugs spell, or the bully who kept pestering the addict?
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