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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 could simply be Gandalf's way of saying that once the Ring had moved on from Gollum (
for whatever reason) it was
a fait a compli. Like saying 'I'd been thinking about getting a new car for a while, then my old one packed up, so in the end
it was the car that decided things & I
had to get a new one.' Doesn't imply the car was sentient & 'decided' to stop working so I'd have to get a new one - its just a way of speaking.
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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
The only problem seems to be that people don't want to acknowledge that the Ring is a character in the books that is capable of taking action to get what it wants.
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Nope - the other problem is explaining how an object without a brain can think. I do understand where you're coming from, & a thinking Ring is the easiest explanation for events & statements in the book, but as I've begun to think more about it I'm starting to see that its not necessary for the Ring to be sentient.