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08-13-2004, 03:28 AM | #1 |
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Was the destroying of the Ring lucky?
Some people that I have talked to have regarded the destroying of the Ring as LUCKY. I disagree with this and this is why.
In the chapter Mount Doom on page 922 Frodo says to Gollum '"Begone, trouble me no more! If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire Of Doom"' Then what happens. Frodo claims the Ring for himself, Gollum bites off his finger and has the Ring. Then he falls over the edge in celebrating that he finally has his precious back. For didn't Frodo say in The Two Towers 'If I were to put the precious on and command you to cast yourself over the precipice of fire you would do so' For Gollum was held to the promise he made when Frodo & Sam found him or when he found Frodo & Sam might be more accurate. '"We promise, yes I promise," said Gollum. "I will serve the master of the Precious. Good master, good Smeagol, gollum, gollum." What do you guys think. Was it luck or did the command of Frodo and promise of Gollum work against him. |
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I don't think that the promise of Gollum was why he fell. I don't think that Frodo's words caused it either. I think they were rather some kind of foretelling on Frodo's part (or foreshadowing on Tolkien's part). I would call the destruction of the Ring luck as in it was brought about by fate and "the higher powers at work". There's always that sense that good is supported by higher powers, in other words "God knows the way of good people."
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08-13-2004, 04:29 AM | #3 |
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Maybe but I still think the words of Frodo had at least some influance on what happened.
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I think it was in part the impact Frodo's words still had on Gollum... as well as the promise he had sworn 'on the precious' - remember how Frodo warned him that if he went back on the promise, the Ring itself would get him?
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i'd have to put it to the fate thing... there are many references thoughout tolkien's work about a sort of predestination... not one that was known to all, or any, but there none-the-less
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H eswore on the precious and I thinkt hat while the ring is evil a promise is a promise. I think it made him a little a little reckless and he fell off. I think the powers at be (Buffy reference ) also had something to do with it
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I know I think that in a sense (a huge ironical sense) the ring had to fulfil a promise to a formere owner and therefore destroyed itself along with Gollum. HEHEHEHEHEHE OH THE IRONY HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE
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the movies totaly undermined wat the lotr books were but then makin it was lik an almost inposible task so they did a pritty gd job realy.
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Welcome to the Moot Em. (Another Em! ) Introduce yourself in the Welcome thread if you want.
I think it was fate, but I don't think Eru was influencing every aspect of the Quest. Maybe it was a bit lucky that Gollum fell, but it was also highly probably that he fell. I mean, he was doing a mad dance next to a cliff. (Someone needs to read the Evil Overlord list. )
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Gollum's destruction in flames was predetermined by his oath on the Precious.
But it was pure luck that Gollum was holding the Ring when he fell. I think Tolkien wanted to stress that it was beyond anyone's will to resist the temptation and to destroy the Ring. |
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Do you think then, that if it had fallen to Sam to destroy the Ring, that he wouldn't have done it either? I think arguments could be made either way. (Though I would say that Sam would have destroyed it.)
Maybe Tolkien was also saying that you can't make any oath lightly. Even if you broke it, it would find some way to fullfill itself or punish you for breaking it. In Gollum's case, both things happened.
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