PugJesusPatience is a virtue
https://piefed.social/c/lotrmemes/p/2139847/patience-is-a-virtue
ummthatguyRegarding Hobbits:
FormfillerWasn’t gollum human?
arctanthropethat’s something I was wondering about recently, one of Sméagol’s characteristics is curiosity, when Gandalf describes him in the book he said that since even before he had the ring, he was always looking for secrets and answers to riddles. so why was he content to basically sit in one spot for hundreds of years? wouldn’t he get bored, wouldn’t he want to look around and try to find things nobody else knew about?
Perhaps it’s a matter of how the addiction inherent to the ring affected him individually.
I suppose if you have that one thing, of incredible powers that made you murder your friend seconds after finding it just so you could keep it, and it’s the greatest thing ever to just have it, everything else becomes irrelevant. Just gotta be safe and hidden so no one can take the precious from you.
How do you think he ended up in the cave?
(Also, do we actually know he stayed in the same spot for hundreds of years? He traveled a bunch after losing the ring to Bilbo; I don’t recall Tolkien ever explicitly saying he didn’t travel before, too. Maybe he was the greatest cave explorer of all time.)
TRBoomI always thought this to be the ring’s influence and intent. Shit just went down and it was captured by the enemy. When Smeagol found it, it drove him deep underground in order to hide and protect itself.
When Sauron become active again the ring then sought a way out of Golum’s hands to be found by a goblin, Bilbo fucked these plans up in spectacular fashion.
Ayako