Gollum: poetic justice and shadow - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

piosenniel · 03-24-2002, 02:04 AM

i read an interesting article about frodo's degree of 'hurt' - and why he couldn't stay in ME
http://home.mn.rr.com/karynmilos/ess...eeplyhurt.html

no, i don't think it was poetic justice - justice where good is rewarded and evil is punished. i don't think gollum had any will of his own from his long exposure to the ring. he couldn't really will to do evil because he no longer had any reference to 'good'. i look at him as a shade of sauron, and both their fates are bound to the fate of the ring.

03-24-2002, 02:04 AM	#10
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	i read an interesting article about frodo's degree of 'hurt' - and why he couldn't stay in ME http://home.mn.rr.com/karynmilos/ess...eeplyhurt.html no, i don't think it was poetic justice - justice where good is rewarded and evil is punished. i don't think gollum had any will of his own from his long exposure to the ring. he couldn't really will to do evil because he no longer had any reference to 'good'. i look at him as a shade of sauron, and both their fates are bound to the fate of the ring. __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

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