Gollum's Exit From Moria

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Re: Gollum's Exit From Moria

ok i found the text but it's not in the letters (sorry, my mistake). it's in Unfinished Tales (the section on the Hunt for the Ring):

What then happened to gollum cannot of course be known for certain. he was pecularily fitted to survive in such straits, tough at the cost of great misery but he was in great peril of disovery by the servants of sauron that lurked in moria !! especially since such bare necessity of food as he must have he could only feed by theiving dangerously. no doubt he had intended to use moria simply as a secret passage westward his purpose being to find shire himself as quickly as he could but he became lost and it was a very long time before he found his way about. It thus seems probable that he had not long made his way towards the west gate when the nine walkers arived. He knew nothing of course about the action of the doors. for him they would seem huge and immovable; and though they had no lock or bar and opened outwards to a thrust he did not discover that. In any case he was now far away from any source of food, for the orcs were mostly in the east end of moria and was become weak and desperate, so that even if he had known all about the doors he still could not have thrust them open.

He had indeed in his terror of the Nazgul dared to hide in Moria.


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