Posted: May 28, 2000 at 11:48:32: by Dulcinea
Gandalf said that he thought Gollum was in kin with the hobbits before he journeyed under the Misty Mountains. There is also a passage in The Two Towers that describes gollum like an old hobbit. So why was anything made by the elves painful to him? I am having trouble deciding whether Tolkien meant this as something symbolic between good and evil, or if he truly meant some physical change occured in gollum to make him so much more different from the hobbits(who loved everything given to them by the elves). Why was the rope physically painful to him, and the lembas poison to him?
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