Analyzing Evil: Gollum From The Tolkien Legendarium

Hello everyone and welcome to the one hundred ninety-first episode of Analyzing Evil! Our topic for this video is Gollum. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching. If you have any feedback or questions feel free to let me know below!

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[Lordofthethings]

It’s ironic that Smeagol one of if not the ring’s greatest victim ended being the cause of its own destruction. It’s so good.

[Kemot]

Gollum and Smeagol were probably both happy at the end: Gollum got the one ring and Smeagol got to finally die while knowing that the one ring won't outlive him for long

[legofan]

Someone made a very interesting comment where they presented the idea that the one ring doesn't actually make you live longer, it makes you die more slowly. This would explain why Bilbo says "I'm old Gandalf. I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel thin, sort of stretched. Like butter scraped over too much bread". The ring is stretching out his death.

[wanderingstar]

I feel that Gollum is a personification of the real-world addict who is too far gone into their vices to come back. They've lost their souls, just as Gollum lost his to the Ring.

[matthewreierson]

“It’s a pity Bilbo didn’t kill him when he had the chance.” “Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo’s hand. Many that live deserve death, some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet for good or ill, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.”

[matthewhinkel]

Andy Serkis gave 110% during the trilogy, as did everyone involved, and it shows. The extended versions are three of the best films ever made, and I can almost certainly guarantee subsequent versions made throughout our future as a species won't be as good.

[funkkymonkey]

I love how the ring tried to use Sméagol so hard but ended up getting caught up in a 500 year, dead end, love affair.

[PharaohDom]

Smeagol is one of the best depictions of an addict in all of fiction.

[MrfrogAXN]

Omg, Andy Serkis played Gollum perfectly. He made him both hateable and sympathetic, and I love it. thank you for making the video about him.

[danielsantiagourtado]

“We Soon Forgot The Taste of Bread, The Sound Of Wind In The Trees… We Even Forgot Our Name.”- Gollum/Smeagol. It really highlights the tragedy of Gollum, he never stood a chance agaisnt the allure of the ring, and without it he would have lived a peaceful life, but alas the utter corruption of smeagol into a shadow of his former self (gollum) and his all consumming obsession with the ring were what finally aided to it's destruction

[ninjaboi]

I was anticipating Vile Eye to do Gollum sooner or later. Next Tolkien villain he should do is Saruman.

[choke]

Isildor wasn’t “foolish” no one could willingly destroy the ring. Thats the point of Sauron pouring his will in to the ring.

[deathbychocolate]

Deagol was the lucky one and he died ....that's a chilling realization

[KingMordred]

Imagine if Gollum completely redeemed himself and, after destroying the Ring with Frodo and Sam, moved with them to the Shire. It would be hilarious to see him chilling and smoking a pipe with both hobbits sitting on the grass. 😂😂😂

[TheWilkReport]

Déagol wasn't simply Sméagol's best friend. He was his cousin—kin. That is the true severity of his first crime under the influence of the One Ring. He murdered a blood relative.

[sevenproxies]

One thing to consider here for poor Smeagol is the fact that his life depended on the ring.

Consider how rapidly Bilbo aged after he had given up the ring and it was destroyed in Mount Doom.

Bilbo's lifespan was prolonged unnaturally by the ring, and once destroyed the effect wore off rapidly.

For Smeagol the ring's destruction would've meant certain death since he'd age 400 years in a matter of days.

[lukaslambs]

8:46 I always interpreted that to mean that the power granted by the ring scales up with the power of the being possessing it. A lowly hobbit would get invisibility, long life and maybe some physical amp but a man or dwarf might get a much longer life and greater amp to their physical status and if a powerful godlike being got the ring it would amplify their already insane power to a ludicrous degree. This is backed up by Gandalf basically being afraid of holding it and implying that it could result in a terrible power beyond anything. Galadriel also has her infamous “all shall love me and despair” scene where she imagines how ridiculously powerful she would be with the ring.

[DTylerFultzVA]

So long has this channel covered despicable evil, monstrous evil, and terrifying evil.
Covering Gollum is exploring a type of evil I don't think I've seen on this channel--"Pitiable Evil". The things Gollum did were terrible and no one is about to look past it, but throughout Gollum's story, you see the toll it took on him and the fleeting glimmers of hope throughout all while you watch him turn it all away because the dark path he's walking is not only the result of his choices, they're also all that he has and all that he has known for centuries.

"He hates and loves the ring, as he hates and loves himself."

[OurAntwan]

Feels like the story of smeagol is that of addiction of a substance. Gollum being the Itching of a quick fix but knowing how bad it is and yet cant resist and smeagol being the real person underneath it all but struggles within himself, its very human

[masteroftheassassins]

I've listened to Andy Serkis narrate the Hobbit and LOTR Trilogy. And all I can say is after all these years, he's still got it with his Gollum voice.