A crouching shape, scarcely more than the shadow of a living thing, a creature now wholly ruined and defeated, yet filled with a hideous lust and rage and before it stood stern, untouchable now by pity, a figure robed in white, but at its breast it held a wheel of fire. Then suddenly, as before under the eaves of the Emyn Muil, Sam saw these two rivals with other vision. ‘Down you creeping thing, and out of my path! Your time is at an end. ‘Down, down!’ he gasped, clutching his hand to his breast, so that beneath the cover of his leather shirt he clasped the Ring. Frodo flung him off and rose up quivering. A wild light flamed in his eyes, but his malice was no longer matched by his old griping strength. He was a lean, starved, haggard thing, all bones and tight-drawn sallow skin. Even so things might have gone far otherwise, if Gollum himself had remained unchanged but whatever dreadful paths, lonely and hungry and waterless, he had trodden, driven by a devouring desire and a terrible fear, they had left grievous marks on him. He fought back with a sudden fury that amazed Sam, and Gollum also. This was probably the only thing that could have roused the dying embers of Frodo’s heart and will: an attack, an attempt to wrest his treasure from him by force.
Gollum was tearing at his master, trying to get at the chain and the Ring. At once he drew his sword but he could do nothing. Give it to Sméagol, yess, give it to us! Give it to uss!’ ‘Wicked masster cheats us cheats Sméagol, gollum. Then he knew what had happened, for above him as he lay he heard a hated voice. Tolkien wrote the scene thus:Ī sudden weight smote him and he crashed forward, tearing the backs of his hands that still clasped his master’s. They struggle briefly and during that struggle Sam’s perception of the confrontation is altered. Q: Did the Ring Speak to Gollum on Mount Doom?ĪNSWER: One of the most hotly debated scenes in The Lord of the Rings is that where Gollum seeks to dissuade Frodo from carrying out his mission.
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