LOTR: Things Only Book Readers Know About Gollum
As it is with every book-to-movie adaptation that’s ever been done, some of the details about individual characters inThe Lord of the Ringswere lost in the translation. Gollum is one of those complex characters that could be either good or bad depending on how he’s viewed, and Tolkien constructs him as a personification of a moral dilemma. Can a traitor be redeemed, or can a broken person be made whole? That message comes through in the movies, but it doesn’t tell the viewer much about Gollum’s backstory....