![]() Sméagol does not lie, deceive, or attempt to manipulate others. All of them are images of the character called Sméagol,” said Jackson, Walsh, and Boyens in a joint statement. “If the images below are in fact the ones forming the basis of this Turkish lawsuit, we can state categorically: none of them feature the character known as Gollum. Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings films, has released a statement suggesting that the Turkish prosecutors may be considering the wrong character. But he almost abandons his plan thanks to Frodo’s kindness, only continuing with it because of a right harshing from Sam. Gollum agrees to accompany Frodo and Sam to destroy the ring, even though he has a hidden agenda to turn them into spider-food. Still, despite this, our increasingly unwashed and slimy friend has flashes of goodness, showing an obvious desire for redemption throughout the trilogy. The ring exerts such an influence on Sméagol that his mind and will are no longer his own, addicted to the ring’s power. Sméagol’s ideallic, Hobbitty life was destroyed when he discovered the ring of power. Gollum is humanised – nay, Hobbitised – when his origins are revealed: Gollum was once Sméagol, another one of those little, curlyhaired folk we grew so fond of in The Hobbit. In The Hobbit, ol’ JRR, as omniscient narrator, professes: “I don’t know where he came from” but revises his opinion by the time of the first book of the trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, Gollum has a rather tragic back-story that paints him more as a victim of circumstance rather than an evil, self-serving creature. He is, ultimately, a lying, cheating, murderous, semi-cannibalistic misanthrope. He teams up with Frodo and Sam, ostensibly to destroy the ring, but plans to feed them to the giant spider Shelob and claim back his “precious”. He gives up the name Baggins and the Hobbit homeland of The Shire to the Dark Lord who’s after the ring of power, setting the whole war in motion. In fact, the entire shebang can be laid at his door. Even when bested by Baggins in a riddle game, Gollum - “a miserable wicked creature” - accuses the Hobbit of stealing his ring and tries to rob it back.īy the time we reach The Lord of the Rings trilogy (second impression, Unwin Books edition, 1974 for all of you following at home), Gollum isn’t just skulking in caves. Indeed, his first thought on encountering Bilbo Baggins is to eat him. And what a page it is! It is here that Prof Tolkien introduces Gollum thusly: “Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature.” Gollum, we are told, is fishing, but he’s as partial to Goblin meat - “he just throttled them from behind, if they ever came down alone”. I would like, if I may, to refer to my battered 1981 fourth-edition Unwin reprint of The Hobbit, page 77. What will the court-appointed team of experts going to find? Let’s look at the evidence in the source material… For the prosecution Sometimes he took a fancy for fish from the lake, and sometimes neither goblin nor fish came back.The judge adjourned the case to February and despatched a team of expert witnesses – “two academics, two behavioural scientists or psychologists and an expert on cinema and television productions”, according to Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman – to pore over Gollum’s character and decide whether it is a comparison worth jail time.ĭr Çiftçi’s liberty now depends on how well Gollum’s character comes across in the box. When they were tunnelling down long ago, and they found they could go no further so there their road ended in that direction, and there was no reason to go that way - unless the Great Goblin sent them. They very seldom did, for they had a feeling that something unpleasant was lurking down there, down at the very roots of the mountain. He just throttled them from behind, if they ever came down alone anywhere near the edge of the water, while he was prowling about. Goblin he thought good, when he could get it but he took care they never found him out. He was looking out of his pale lamp-like eyes for blind fish, which he grabbed with his long fingers as quick as thinking. He paddled it with large feet dangling over the side, but never a ripple did he make. He had a little boat, and he rowed about quite quietly on the lake for lake it was, wide and deep and deadly cold. He was Gollum - as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. ![]() ![]() Where he came from, nor who or what he was. “Deep down here by the dark water lived old ![]()
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