“He had not slept since the battle on the day before, yet he did not look weary” Newbie here, trying to learn Old Gammidgy's ropewalk.It is now time for Frodo and the others leave Faramir. (Mods, apologies if this quote exceeds limits, or if it is not acceptable to reference Unfinished Tales in the Lord of the Rings forum. It was thus a piece of singular good fortune for Gollum that the Nine Walkers arrived when they did. In any case he was now far away from any source of food, for the Orcs were mostly in the East-end of Moria, and was become weak and desperate, so that even if he had known all about the doors he still could not have thrust them open. To him they would seem huge and immovable and though they had no lock or bar and opened outwards to a thrust, he did not discover that. He knew nothing, of course, about the action of the doors. It thus seems probable that he had not long made his way towards the West-gate when the Nine Walkers arrived. No doubt he had intended to use Moria simply as a secret passage westward, his purpose being to find " Shire" himself as quickly as he could but he became lost, and it was a very long time before he found his way about. He could only get by thieving dangerously. He was peculiarly fitted to survive in such straits, though at cost of great misery but he was in great peril of discovery by the servants of Sauron that lurked in Moria, especially since such bare necessity of food as he must have What then happened to Gollum cannot of course be known for certain. That was probably in the autumn of the year after which all trace of him was lost. It seems clear that pursued both by Elves and Orcs Gollum crossed the Anduin, probably by swimming, and so eluded the hunt of Sauron but being still hunted by Elves, and not yet daring to pass near Lórien (only the lure of the Ring itself made him dare to do this afterwards), he hid himself in Moria. This is in a rough state and has required In D is found an account of how Gollum fared after his escape from the Orcs of Dol Guldur andīefore the Fellowship entered the West-gate of Moria. Gollum was also probably quite close when, after being pinned by the Orc's spear, Gandalf said, The name Bilbo would certainly have gotten Gollum's attention, and the value of the mail shirt was obvious. We know that Gollum was trapped inside of Moria when the Fellowship arrived, and that Frodo sensed his nearness - footsteps that continued after the party stopped walking, and those pale eyes glowing in the dark - so Gollum might have been close enough to hear Gandalf exclaiming over Bilbo's mithril shirt and how valuable it was. Once Gollum sees Sting in Frodo's hand, it's just more confirmation that Frodo was of the hated Baggins line. None of the other 3 hobbits had any such connection with Bilbo. Granted, now I speculate over whether or not Gollum was capable of inferring that such a valuable item would only have been handed over to someone with whom Bilbo obviously had a strong relationship, but I submit that in his mind, this linked Frodo, Bilbo and Baggins together. Merry even links Frodo to Bilbo by saying, `I have often wondered what you and Bilbo were doing, so close in his little room,' Once the Fellowship (and Gollum) made it out of Moria, Aragorn finds time to tend Frodo and Sam's wounds, and discovers that valuable mail shirt. `There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him long ago.' Gollum was also probably quite close when, after Frodo had been pinned by the Orc's spear, Gandalf said to him, At any rate, it's only after this, when Gollum argues with himself, in the desolation around Mordor, that he refers to " this Baggins. It's also possible that he might have heard the name sometime between Moria and the Breaking I'll have to look further for that.īut it's likely that anyone wielding the swordof Baggins would be one. Of course, it's conceivable that Gollum assumed that since a "Baggins" had originally "stolen" his ring, anyone holding it would also be a "Baggins" there's no indication of that, however. Time for research!Įdit: OK, a little browsing has turned this up: When Gollum falls from the cliff in the Emyn Muil, Sam jumps him, but Gollum fights back, almost overcoming him, until Frodo comes to his aid: But that, of course, doesn't answer the question of how he knew Frodowas a Baggins.
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