Sméagol: Hero of the Third Age

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

I see many have reacted...good!

I personally don't think that Smeagol was taking the Ring to keep it away from Sauron or to save Frodo. He wanted the Ring.

Smeagol just danced around on the Sammath Naur...

I, for one, believe that Smeagol was acting primarily out of his lust for the ring...

Sméagol? Or Gollum? From what I see it was Gollum who assaulted Frodo on Sammath Naur and rejoiced upon being reunited with his precious. Now could it be that Sméagol had become more dominant after Gollum's failure at Torech Ungol (one can see a comparison to Stalinist purges - a failure results in elimination) and, seeing the strong doom guiding the Ring-bearer's quest, had "unleashed" Gollum(and his lust) for one more time, for the reasons of sparing his master the sacrifice required for the Ring's destruction, and freeing himself from bondage?

...the only way to keep it and hurt Sauron was to destroy it and himself together...

He did promise his master never to let Sauron have it. But there's only one way to do it.

In essence, this:

Sméagol will never, never to let Him have it. Never! Sméagol will save it.

might have been his death warrant.

Later days!
->Elenrod