![]() ![]() “.Suddenly Sam saw Gollum’s long hands draw upwards to his mouth his white fangs gleamed and then snapped as he bit. And all the while he hissed but spoke no words. To and fro he swayed, now so near the brink that almost he tumbled in, now dragging back, falling to the ground, rising, and falling again. “Gollum on the edge of the abyss was fighting like a mad thing with an unseen foe. When Sam recovers, he gets up and sees a strange and terrible thing: Gollum, untouched by the mercy lately shown to him, has returned in stealth, and attacked him. Then Sam is struck violently in the back. But to his intense horror, Sam sees Frodo now put on the Ring and declare in a clear voice: ” I have come, but I do not choose now to do what I came to do. Then he turns to follow Frodo who has gone ahead, climbing up, in his last reserves of strength, to the Fires of Doom, into which he is to hurl the Ring. Revulsion mingled with his pity, Sam lets the unhappy creature go. Strongly tempted to slay the treacherous creature, and it seems the only safe thing to do, Sam nevertheless stays his hand: “…deep in his heart there was something that restrained him he could not strike this thing lying in the dust, forlorn, ruinous, utterly wretched.” Sam, having briefly worn the Ring himself in trying to lighten Frodo’s burden, could dimly guess the agony of Gollum’s shriveled mind and body, enslaved to that Ring, ”unable to find peace or relief ever in life again”. As the final lap of the terrible journey begins, Frodo must advance alone to the Fires of Doom, and Sam finds Gollum yet again behind him. Gollum encounters them on their way and they are locked in combat as he tries but unsuccessfully to wrest the Ring from Frodo. Frodo finds that the Ring he is carrying grows heavier and heavier and increases his exhaustion. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.” Gandalf‘s heart tells him that Gollum may yet have a part to play in the great and fateful enterprise they are embarking on.įrodo and the faithful Sam do indeed have many arduous and perilous adventures on their journey to the dreadful land of Mordor, and as Gandalf had foreseen, the repulsive figure of Gollum several times turns up craftily as they go on their way. To this Gandalf replies: “Deserves it! I daresay he does. But Gandalf warns the Ring-bearer and his companion not to yield to the temptation to do away with Gollum, for with all his evil-doing in thrall to the Dark Lord,” he is very old and very wretched.”įrodo protests at this: “He deserves death.” He will surely come stealthily after Frodo and Sam, attracted by the Ring which Frodo will wear on a chain round his neck, hidden under his clothes. Then he too had lost it, and now spends his life trying at any cost to recover his ’Precious’. He comes more and more under its influence, committing many further evil deeds. Frodo declares that it is for him to assume this mission, and his devoted servant, Sam, refuses to let his master go into these dangers alone, and will accompany him.īefore they set out, Gandalf warns them about one known as Gollum, who began as one of good hobbit-stock, but whose friend had once come across this same Ring in a river-bed and Gollum had murdered him in order to possess it for himself. Gandalf warns Frodo that if he makes much use of the Ring to become invisible, he will gradually ‘fade’ and come under the Dark Lord’s power.Īfter much deliberation, it is decided by the chief hobbits, in counsel with Gandalf, that the only safe course is to destroy the Ring but such is its strength that its total destruction can only be assured by its being hurled into the Fires of Doom far in the Dark Lord’s fearful land of Mordor. He had then lost it, and was now seeking to recover it, sending his emissaries far and wide to come on its track. It had been fashioned long ago by the Dark Lord, as an instrument for his evil purposes. But Gandalf, the great magician, one of the Wise and Frodo’s friend and guide, warns of the danger which the Ring represents. The story ‘s central character is Frodo, one of the Shire hobbits, who finds he has come into the possession of a magic Ring of great beauty, which has the power to render invisible one who puts it on his finger. ![]() In the rich mythological world of Tolkien ‘s Lord of the Rings, the ancient race of Hobbits plays a central role, a little people, shy of us humans, but a very ancient people and a merry one, hospitable and fond of laughter.īut, living carefree in their Shire, they find themselves prey to a stealthily advancing menace… ![]()
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