![]() ![]() Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. Treachery, treachery I fear treachery of that miserable creature. But of Cirith Ungol I will not speak tonight. “Yet my heart guessed that Frodo and Gollum would meet before the end. Gandalf expands on that later as he hears Faramir's news of having met Frodo, Sam and Gollum trying to enter Mordor (V.4). My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.” And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. “You have not seen him,” Gandalf broke in. “But I am frightened and I do not feel any pity “What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!” Frodo regrets that Bilbo didn't kill Gollum, but Gandalf disagrees: He isn't even comfortable with Sméagol's murder of Deagol for the ring - “hobbits don't cheat. He hated the dark, and he hated light more: he hated everything, and the Ring most of all.”įrodo, at first, doesn't understand how a hobbit may have become Gollum. “Alas! there is little hope of that for him. Unless it could be cured.” Gandalf sighed. “But that, of course, would only make the evil part of him angrier in the end - unless it could be conquered. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice again, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things. (…) There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as through a chink in the dark: light out of the past. “there was something else in it, I think, which you don't see yet. When Gandalf tells the story of Sméagol to Frodo and reveals that Sméagol became Gollum (I.2), Gandalf say that ![]()
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