[ SECRET POST #2209 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2208 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[velvet_mace]

The books are slow in places. Particularly that place. I just got done reading the Counsel of Elrond, and my god does everyone suck at story telling. There is a story there (several in fact), but it's said in the most long-winded, ponderous, and vague way possible. It took me 4 days to read through it to my daughter. By comparison, we've raced through the chapters before and afterwards.

Among the stories is the one where apparently the Elves were taking Gollum out for walkies in the woods and he climbed up a tree and wouldn't come down. They apparently didn't want to climb up and get him because, fuck that, they are elves, so they sat down, feasting and shitting about, and waited for him to get hungry. But before that could happen the Orcs show up. The elves kind of forgot what they were doing and chased the orcs off their land (quite righteously I imagine). With that completed they realized "Oh hey, yeah, we were supposed to be guarding Gollum, weren't we?" They go back, but by then, Gollum was long gone. Oooops.

[(Anonymous)]

I think Gollum has a magic gift for making people feel so sorry for him they let their guard down.

[greenvelvetcake]

To be fair, he is one of the most pitiful characters in fiction. Skin and bone, driven to madness by the Ring - it doesn't change the fact that he's a murderer, but it's not hard to see how it would get people's guards down.

[(Anonymous)]

Plus, from TTT or ROTK, Gollum says something that seems to imply that it actually hurt him to be touched by the Elves (or even looked at). There's the scene with the Elven rope that burns him, and his complaints about their "bright eyes". So they probably thought it was a kindness to let him be.