Inside Tolkiens Return of the King

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[@fallspeed]

This whole series was excellent. It reminded me how much of the books was left out or changed in the films.

[@Britton_Thompson]

I disagree with the commentator who attributed the One Ring's destruction to pure chance when Gallum began dancing & celebrating his reclamation of it which sent him over the cliff's edge to his death below. He says Tolkien wished to emphasize how major events can often be determined by unwitting blind luck. On the contrary, Gallum's death was actually the will of the One Ring punishing Gallum for his betrayal of Frodo, even though the ring inadvertently destroyed itself in the process. Gallum swore to be loyal to Frodo & their quest to reach Mount Doom. He'd made this promise and sworn an oath on the One Ring itself to be completely beholden to Frodo. When Gallum reached his breaking point of wanting the ring back, he finally attacked Frodo outright within the caverns of Mount Doom and took back the One Ring for himself. Because the ring was both treacherous and sentient, it enacted it's swift retribution on Gallum by sending him to his death in the fiery lava below where both met their combined demise. This was why Gallum continually escaped certain death throughout the entire Middle Earth saga, and why his role in the broader mosaic of Middle Earth is perhaps the most important of all. Ya see, it wasn't Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, or anyone else originally belonging to the 'Fellowship of the Ring' group that destroyed the One Ring; it was Gallum. Had Gallum not been so inexplicably lucky at having his life spared, had he been killed earlier in the epic, the One Ring doesn't get destroyed. Ever. The actual message Tolkien sought to impart to the reader was that anything possessing that much power, and is so thoroughly wicked in it's nature, will always be the source of it's failures, and ultimately, the source of it's own demise.

[@brovold72]

Not dumb luck, or even a Faustian theme of evil-thwarting-itself, but the Hand of Providence, and Sam/Frodo putting forth faith and effort to the very extremes of their abilities. All these things are required.

[@gregorymacdonnell7914]

GAllum? It is Gollum , ya wacko. And the ring does not punish, it seems rather to want to make its way back to its maker, abandoning,changing size being found ,by accident seemingly by Isildur,Gollum,Bilbo,passed to Frodo,then at the moment of Frodo destroying it, its hold proves too powerfull to be abandoned by ANYONE who wields it,but Sauron,its maker.

[@dredbane4056]

I hate that this says every word Tolkien made wrong. They pronounce everything wrong according to research done by Christopher Tolkien and others. It's infuriating!

[@steerpike1359]

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