The Elvish Rope Has This Effect on Golum

I do love that sam didn't tie the rope very tight though. That's ye. It speaks to some essential goodness, some compassion there,. Even though he won't speak it out loud. And also, perhaps, knowing that phroda would just make him loosen it a little bit. So you're saying it's not so much compassion as resignation. Quite possibly. Resignation. That kind of describes a lot, doesn't it? Tat does. He hisses that the problem is the rope, right? It freezes and it bites because it was made by the elves, i should say, as he puts it, twisted by the elf, eh. I don't know.