Bilbo cheated? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

HerenIstarion · 12-04-2000, 02:28 PM

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/onering.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Bilbo cheated?

May well be (can't bet)
But I guess there was a bit of a lot mixed up - the ring alongside with Bilbo's fright and anger and the similariry of his and Gollums's mentalities (remember Gandalf mentioning their practically similar riddles?)

In the same chapter is also very surprising turn, when Bilbo, coming out of a corner, sees a bunch of goblins, and realises that they see him too. His reaction puzzled me first time I read it and still is not fitting in my fancy what frightened man would do first: he did put a hand in a pocket. Can it be admitted that that too was an influence of a ring (than why it slipped off his finger in the first place) Or did Professor simply put it in to give a chapter dramatic "grande finale" ?

...but what they are really like, and what lies beyond them, only those can say who have climbed them.</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000111>HerenIst arion</A> at: 12/4/00 3:47:54 pm

12-04-2000, 02:28 PM	#2
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wight Posts: 227</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/onering.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Bilbo cheated? May well be (can't bet) But I guess there was a bit of a lot mixed up - the ring alongside with Bilbo's fright and anger and the similariry of his and Gollums's mentalities (remember Gandalf mentioning their practically similar riddles?) In the same chapter is also very surprising turn, when Bilbo, coming out of a corner, sees a bunch of goblins, and realises that they see him too. His reaction puzzled me first time I read it and still is not fitting in my fancy what frightened man would do first: he did put a hand in a pocket. Can it be admitted that that too was an influence of a ring (than why it slipped off his finger in the first place) Or did Professor simply put it in to give a chapter dramatic "grande finale" ? ...but what they are really like, and what lies beyond them, only those can say who have climbed them.</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000111>HerenIst arion</A> at: 12/4/00 3:47:54 pm __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!