![]() ![]() At this point, Gollum would pretty much have to be completely deaf - and an absolute moron - not to know what's going on. Doom, the Ring trying to coerce him into not destroying it, and Sam doing an awful lot of shouting at his friend. ![]() (Paraphrased from memory - my books aren't handy for direct quotation at the moment.)įrodo hems and haws quite a bit in Mt. 'My Precious! O my Precious!' And with that, even as his eyes were lifted up to gloat on his prize, he stepped too far, toppled, wavered for a moment on the brink, and then with a shriek he fell. 'Precious, precious, precious!' Gollum cried. It shone now as if verily it was wrought of living fire. It is before you.Įven aside from that, Gollum must surely have been able to locate Frodo's hand (and the finger with the Ring on it) by touch during their wrestle at the Crack of Doom.įor the third part of your question, Frodo's finger was still in the Ring when Gollum fell, as the scene in Mount Doom confirms:īut Gollum, dancing like a mad thing, held aloft the ring, a finger still thrust within its circle. In other words, he had ample opportunity to learn of their plans for the Ring, and even if Tolkien doesn't explicitly state when it happened (the movie is more specific: Frodo tells Gollum) it doesn't seem that he needs to.įor the second part of your question, it seems that Gollum's long possession of the Ring had given him some form of attunement to it, as Frodo indicates in The Taming of Smeagol: The company knew that he was following them by the time they were on Anduin, and it seems reasonably certain that he may even have witnessed Frodo's confrontation with Boromir. It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that Gollum had overheard something along the way: he had been trailing the Fellowship since Moria, and in The Great River Frodo speculates that he had picked up their trail again when they left Lorien at the Silverlode, which was immediately before Galadriel's gift-giving and Celeborn's discussion of the further routes (to Mordor and Minas Tirith) to take. What's the hobbit going to do with it, we wonders, yes we wonders.' But it's going to Him yes, nearer every step. 'Yes, yes, my precious,' came the answer, 'we promised: to save our Precious, not to let Him have it – never. Gollum had been suspecting something since at least as early as his conversation with himself in The Passage of the Marshes: ![]()
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