Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Apr 26 2009, 1:16pm
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Regarding Gollum's eyes, I've always had the feeling in reading this chapter that Gollum was quite a different creature than he was in LotR, a kind of "creature from the Black Lagoon" and not related to hobbits at all. In fact, when I first read LotR, I had to work hard to change the mental image I had of him.
I think the other magic rings are like the ones that we find in fairy tales, that give powers like invisibility or great strength or speed or being impervious to fire and so on.
That jump seems almost beyond the realm of believability, but not quite. I'm thinking back many, many years to when I was a skinny little seven-year-old, and I got it into my head that if I practiced running and jumping I might someday take off and learn to fly. I spent all summer practicing jumping over some boxes that had held ceiling tiles, and jumping across a "chasm" formed by two jump ropes set further and further apart. I have no idea how far I actually jumped, maybe four or five feet, but it felt like a long way.
I think the shadow is something like the soul; the ring can make the body invisible, but there's *something* left that can't be hidden.
Great discussion, Morthoron. Thanks!
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(This post was edited by Aunt Dora Baggins on Apr 26 2009, 1:18pm)
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