‘We promises, yes I promise!’ said Gollum. Nicely done I thought I was the only person who caught that.īut there is also the fact that Gollum never actually swore to serve Frodo, he swore to serve the Master of the Precious: 'brainwashed', and broken, anyone could be soįiercely simpleminded and self righteous.Įxact quote is from the second link here, page 270 cannot post the direct link
Time when daily people of good will are tortured, It seems sad and strange that, in this evil Should have been hung and not honoured), and me
Months ago reviled Frodo as a scoundrel (who 65.Ī third (the only other) commentator on the point some The Other Power then took over: the Writer of the Story (by which I do not mean myself), 'that one ever-present Person who is never absent and never named'
Few others, possibly no others of his time, would have got so far. Tolkien mentions that Frodo did take the Ring to a certain point (where no other being could) and then another power took over to decide the fate of the Ring.įrodo deserved all honour because he spent every drop of his power of will and body, and that was just sufficient to bring him to the destined point, and no further. Yes, as we can see on Letter #192, Eru certainly took over after Frodo was done with the assigned task.
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