![]() ![]() ![]() “I don’t know how many times Gollum begged Bilbo’s pardon. Tolkien’s original version of Chapter 5 of The Hobbit (published in 1937) described an encounter between Gollum and Hobbit Bilbo (or Frodo’s uncle), when Gollum promises to give Bilbo the Ring if Bilbo wins the riddle game, and is deeply apologetic when he finds that the Ring is missing. In other words, how does Gollum’s demise at the end of the trilogy leave an ethical message to all Tolkien’s readers?įirst of all, let us talk about the origin of character Gollum in the author’s idea before he wrote The Lord of the Rings trilogy during the period 1954-1955. Doom after a struggle with Frodo raises a question mark for many readers (including me) that why Tolkien lets Gollum be Frodo’s final obstacle but not Sauron, who is supposed to be Frodo’s biggest enemy in the trilogy. That Gollum ends up expiring in the fire of Mt. ![]() Gollum models the character who is tormented between good and evil, which actually sounds interesting to me because in real life, you can be good and bad, nevertheless you cannot be both good and bad at the same time. However, there is an exception in Tolkien’s world, which lies inside character Gollum (also known as Sméagol). Saruman, Denethor, Boromir) and the characters that are aware of evil and capable of avoiding it (eg. ![]() In the idealistic world of Middle Earth, the author of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R Tolkien discusses the matter of morality by using two main types of characters in order to develop his theme that spreads throughout more than one thousand pages: the characters that are corrupted easily by evil (eg. ![]()
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