Who or What is Gullum

Gullum Talking to His Reflection in the Pool of Water.

Although Gullum got his name after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat", he started out as Sméagol, a hobbit of the tribe of the Stoors, who lived near the Gladden Fields. At the time of his death Gollum was about 589 years old. Sméagol know longer resembled a Hobbit after he had been “deformed and twisted in both body and mind by the corruption of the Ring.”

The influence of Ring affected just about all who came in contact with it. Sméagol had first came in contact with the ring while out fishing with a mate. Sméagol had been dragged out of the boat in which had been fishing by a great fish, a large fish for a Hobbit anyway. Sméagol went for a bit of a swim while still holding on to the pole as the fish swam along.

The fish would eventually get away, but while in Sméagol's underwater travels he encountered the Ring. Upon swimming back to shore his fishing buddy noticed the Ring and wanted it for himself, the two got into an altercation and Sméagol slew his friend. The evil in the ring having influenced Sméagol to murder and Sméagol goes into self-exile.

Gullum’s Reflection Talking and Reasoning with Gollum. However demented it might seem, Gullum and his reflection were conversing with one another. Gullum’s reflection actually seemed to be the more lucid of the two.

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

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Gullum Resources

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The Hunt for Gollum

Screenshot is from the opening of The Hunt for Gollum.

The Hunt for Gollum is a thirty minute unofficial Lord of the Rings prequel that is based on the appendices of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. This is a very impressive short film depicting a time toward the end of the third age of Middle Earth. It was a time when the forces of darkness were encroaching upon the lives of everyday people and where rangers of the good patrolled the wilds to counter these forces of evil.

The Hobbit an Unexpected Journey

I viewed The Hobbit an Unexpected Journey, the other day. Although it has been many years since I read the Hobbit and I cannot say whether the movie followed books plot closely or not, there were many memorable scenes in this movie. The fact that the movie was shot in New Zealand made for many fine scenes indeed.

Memorable Scenes

The chase scene with the Orcs riding their Wargs, were chasing the dwarfs on a large rocky plain. Apparently Gandalf new of an entrance to a tunnel that would eventually lead to Rivendell and had led the dwarfs to this cave, whereby evading the Orcs.

The Rivendell scene with its magnificent architecture and waterfalls, this is where the dwarfs emerged from the underground tunnel onto a ledge overlooking the legendary elfin outpost.

Another scene that I thought was remarkable was the scene where giant hawks swept the Orcs and their Warg’s off the face of the mountain. One by one they were plucked up and dropped to the valley floor below. Once this was complete the hawks plucked Gandalf, the hobbit, and the dwarfs up in their talons and flew them all to safety.

Although there were so many great scenes in this movie, the scene with the Hobbit and character Gollum sparring each other with riddles. If the Hobbit won then Gollum was to see the Hobbit out of the cave. I do remember this situation from my reading of the book. This scene helped help me to realize just how demented Gollum was.