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227 – Where Sméagols Dare

The Prancing Pony Podcast

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The Ring Is Gallum, and That's Amazing.

Tolkin's brilliant literary method of showing that gallum often is no longer thinking of the ring as something separate from himsigf he is the ring. Apart from it, he has no individuality of hisow, wow. So good. Such great insight on that one. And even though he hasn't had it for so long, he still thinks it belongs to yo, of course. Eh, well, he had it for 500 years before, so what's 60, 70 years? Eh, that is true. He's time up, hossession. But he's calling proto and sam thieves. He's harassing them, sees, he's just spewing this hatred for them

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