ON GOLLUM:

"He wandered in loneliness, weeping a little for the hardness of the wolrd, and he journeyed up the River, till he came to a stream that flowed down from the mountains, and he went that way. He caught fish in deep pools with invisible fingers and ate them raw. (...) But as he lowered his eyes, he saw far above the tops of the Misty Mountains, out of which the stream came. And he thought suddenly: 'It would be cool and shady under those mountains. The Sun could not watch me there. The roots of those mountains must be roots indeed; there must be great secrets buried there which have not been discovered since the begining.'
So he journeyed by night up into the highlands, and he found a little cave out of which the dark stream ran; and he wormed his way like a maggot (eine Made) into the heart of the hills, and vanished out of all knowledge. The Ring went into the shadows with him, and even the maker, when his power had begun to grow again, could learn nothing of it."


"It was difficult to learn anything fom him for certain, for his talk was constantly interrupted by curses and threats. 'What had it got in its pocketses?' he said. 'It wouldn't say, no precious. Little cheat. Not a fair question. It cheated first, it did. It broke the rules. We ought to have squeezed it, yes precious. And we will, precious!'
'That is a sample of his talk. I don't suppose you want any more...'"

"The Wood-elves tracked him first, an easy task for them, for his trail was still fresh then. Through Mirkwood and back again it led them, though they never caught him. The wood was full of the rumour of him, dreadful tales even among beasts and birds. The Woodmen said that there was some new terror abroad, a ghost that drank blood. It climbed trees to find nests; it crept into holes to find the young; it slipped through windows to find cradles."
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TOLKIEN: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
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Gewaltige Sprache!- Sollte Gollum als Haustier halten, um mir mißliebige und unangenehme Nachbarn vom Leib zu halten. Der würde sie etwa so begrüßen: 'Warum klingelt es? Es stört den Herrn. Es darf nicht klingeln an der Tür, das darf es nicht...'
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