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Noel Q. von Schneiffel
Rivendell
Sep 8 2012, 7:04pm
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And I think Peter Jackson got that wrong when he showed Bilbo already significantly aged and less agile during the Council of Elrond.
It is also interesting what Gollum thinks about it, when he tries to talk Frodo out of killing him on the slopes of Mount Doom:
'Don't kill us,' he wept. 'Don't hurt us with nassty cruel steel! Let us live, yes, live just a little longer. Lost lost! We're lost. And when Precious goes we'll die, yes, die into the dust.' He clawed up the ashes of the path with his long fleshless fingers. 'Dusst!' he hissed. (LotR, Mount Doom)
I see no reason to assume that Gollum was wrong here. Having long outlived the lifespan of his kind, Gollum would probably have died instantly at the Ring's destruction - even if he hadn't died anyway from falling into lava.
In contrast, the loss of the Ring to Bilbo had actually invigorated him, as Gandalf tells Frodo. Gollum did feel old, true, but he did not appear to suffer any physical effects of old age:
After a year or two he left the mountains. You see, though still bound by desire of it, the Ring was no longer devouring him; he began to revive a little. He felt old, terribly old, yet less timid, and he was mortally hungry. (LotR, The Shadow of the Past)
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