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Loresilme
Valinor
Jan 27 2014, 3:37pm
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Screencap of the Day: "I can't go back"
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Frodo: What is this place?
Gollum: Master must go inside the tunnel.
Frodo: Now that I'm here, I don't think I want to.
Gollum: It's the only way! Go in . . . or go back.
Frodo: I can't go back.
After tricking Frodo into sending Sam away, Gollum leads Frodo to Shelob's cave. Earlier, when Frodo sends Sam away, he specifically says, "Go home." Now, Gollum tells Frodo that unless he takes this path, there is no way to go but back. When Frodo says he can't go "back", what do you think he means? Does he mean he is already too damaged by the Ring that he can't go home, the way he sent Sam home? Or does he mean he can't give up and turn back, the way Sam explained earlier:
"But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something."
Or is there a point in every hero's journey, where they realize they've reached a point of no return?
I always felt that the very simple, "I can't go back" had many layers of meaning, in this situation. What do you think Frodo means?
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Screencap of the Day is a place to post any thoughts or comments you have on a particular screencap. The above are just my thoughts on this one -- as always, anyone is welcome to share other observations and comments  !
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willowing
Lorien
Jan 28 2014, 8:44am
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As you say Frodo's words "I can't go back" had many layers of meaning.
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Three reasons may be because;
(1) He gave his word at Rivendell before the fellowship came together, that he would be the one to take the ring to Mordor when no one else offered to do it.
(2) Having to face Sam, after telling him to go home and Merry and Pippin, Bilbo. Elrond, Legolas, Aragorn, Gimli.
(3) His beloved Shire was facing the same peril happening elsewhere in Middle Earth.
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Riven Delve
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Jan 28 2014, 1:57pm
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that Frodo probably only has an inkling of here, and only comes to understand once he's back in the Shire: he can never "go back" to the life he used to have; there's too much pain and damage, and wounds that can never heal. 
"...at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance." --Dorothy Sayers
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Ataahua
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Jan 28 2014, 9:21pm
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What struck me about this scene
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is that Gollum says Frodo 'must go in' the tunnel - not through it to the other side. Gollum has revealed he never intended Frodo to come out again.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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