WOuld you kill gollum - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Tar-Palantir · 01-12-2003, 02:33 PM

Hey Grounds Keeper Willie, good for calling me out on my comment. Don't get me wrong, I feel sorry for Gollum, for nobody deserves to become what the Ring molded him into. I was very sad when he died and up till then kept hoping for rehabilitation. But I don't feel like he was a nice hobbit kid, deserving some special forgiveness because he used to be good before all this, I suppose that is my only point. No, Gollum wasn't wholly evil, like you say. But I say he wasn't a good kid. And with the sole exception of his good deed with the eggs I can't find any other example of it. Hence my hastiness in proclaiming him "not a good samaritan in any sense of the word." Thank you for making me do more thinking/reading on it, my view has shifted 'slightly'. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] But you can't make me LOVE him, lol! You're all tricksy, the lot of you!

*Tar-Palintir runs screaming from the room before the Smeagol-lovers corrupt his proper sensibilities any further*

By the way "dollars to donuts" is a phrase that basically means I would bet my dollars (more valuable) against your donuts (less valuable), meaning that I feel pretty secure in the bet. Make sense?

[ January 12, 2003: Message edited by: Tar-Palantir ]

01-12-2003, 02:33 PM	#35
Tar-Palantir Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: napa valley, ca Posts: 496	Hey Grounds Keeper Willie, good for calling me out on my comment. Don't get me wrong, I feel sorry for Gollum, for nobody deserves to become what the Ring molded him into. I was very sad when he died and up till then kept hoping for rehabilitation. But I don't feel like he was a nice hobbit kid, deserving some special forgiveness because he used to be good before all this, I suppose that is my only point. No, Gollum wasn't wholly evil, like you say. But I say he wasn't a good kid. And with the sole exception of his good deed with the eggs I can't find any other example of it. Hence my hastiness in proclaiming him "not a good samaritan in any sense of the word." Thank you for making me do more thinking/reading on it, my view has shifted 'slightly'. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] But you can't make me LOVE him, lol! You're all tricksy, the lot of you! Tar-Palintir runs screaming from the room before the Smeagol-lovers corrupt his proper sensibilities any further By the way "dollars to donuts" is a phrase that basically means I would bet my dollars (more valuable) against your donuts (less valuable), meaning that I feel pretty secure in the bet. Make sense? [ January 12, 2003: Message edited by: Tar-Palantir ] __________________ History shows again and again How nature points up the folly of men Go, go, Godzilla!