OT - SPOILER - gollum discussion'

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
You think you know better than the author about his own character??

Ah well... you're no diffeent than the newsgroup posters.

Well, I caveated it by saying that as long as we are speaking from a point of view of what might happen if the books were a historical record of true events. JRRT spent a lot of time developing a universe and the characters that exsisted in it. He demonstrated time after time that noone was immune from the power of the ring. Even Gandalph, Elrond, and that tree elf queen (Sorry, don't remember her name) recognized that it would consume and control them. Even Sauron was not more powerful then the ring, and he made the ring himself. Only that Bombadil guy was immune, and he didn't seen very interested either way.

If after all that he says something like, "If Sam had only said nice things to Gollum the power the ring would be broken and Smeagol would have thrown the ring in the pit to please Frodo." that's inconsistant with everything else in the books. So, yeah, I can say I think that's wrong.

[ February 18, 2004, 20:58: Message edited by: geoschmo ]