![]() ![]() ![]() The thing about Gollum and Smeagol is that they’re completely interdependent. See that rock? Makes for a decent bludgeon, don’t you think? Pick it up, tail the orc all sneaksy-like, and cave its head in - there’s dinner for two sorted. Gollum, however, will be quick to perceive that the orc is alone. Say there’s an orc below you - Smeagol will want to hide, shivering and skimpering between rocks while keeping his hand over his mouth so as not to alert the brutish oaf three times your size. After he has betrayed Frodo, we don't see so much of him but I don't think he is divided any more.īTW: Tolkien's creation of Gollum is the single biggest thing that makes Lord of the Rings so brilliant IMO.From what I saw during last week’s demo, you’ll regularly be hit with situations in which you need to choose between siding with Gollum or Smeagol. Gollum finds a way of twisting things round so he can become the master of the precious, that satisfies Slinker and Stinker. ![]() There is some good and some bad in Gollum as a whole, and more good is in evidence in the Slinker side, but ultimately Slinker goes along with the plan to kill Sam, and let Shelob get Frodo. But both sides want the ring back, and neither is 'good' as such. The Stinker side is driven by the lust for the Ring, and the Slinker side is driven by the promise made to Frodo. Its seems to me that it is swearing on the ring that forces this: because he is literally torn. Its curious because in the Hobbit, Bilbo thinks that Gollum is talking to himself, but actually he is talking to his precious.īy in LotR it appears that he has a classic split personality at times: i.e. ![]()
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