Como a descrição de Gandalf de Smeagol se relaciona com a história?

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Estou curioso sobre a relação entre a personalidade de Smeagol e seu papel na história como Smeagol ou Gollum.

Aqui está a descrição do jovem Smeagol, contada por Gandalf a Frodo na The Fellowship of the Ring:

"The most inquisitive and curious-minded of that family was called Smeagol. He was interested in roots and beginnings; he dived into deep pools; he burrowed under trees and growing plants; he tunneled into green mounds; and he ceased to look up at the hill-tops, or the leaves on the trees, or the flowers opening in the air: his head and his eyes were downward."

Naturalmente, algumas delas são bastante auto-explicativas. Sméagol gostava de escavar e escavar, e geralmente preferia a direção descendente para cima - e Gollum se escondeu por séculos em uma caverna. Mas Gandalf nos diz mais do que isso - ou seja, que Smeagol era uma criatura inquisitiva que estava interessada em raízes e origens.

Isso faz parte da história? Existe evidência disso em algo que Gollum - ou Smeagol - faz? Ou essa descrição um tanto enigmática se resume a ele se enterrar em uma caverna?

    
por Misha R 01.05.2016 / 00:12

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Tudo o que posso pensar é que Gollum é um estudante astuto de história; durante a caminhada pelos Dead Marshes, ele assume o papel de loremaster, relatando alguns contos do Grande Cerco e da Batalha da Última Aliança:

The Dead Marshes. There was a great battle long ago, yes, so they told him when Sméagol was young, when I was young before the Precious came. It was a great battle. Tall Men with long swords, and terrible Elves, and Orcses shrieking. They fought on the plain for days and months at the Black Gates.

The Two Towers Book IV Chapter 2: "The Passage of the Marshes"

'The old fortress, very old, very horrible now. We used to hear tales from the South, when Sméagol was young, long ago. O yes. we used to tell lots of tales in the evening, sitting by the banks of the Great River, in the willow-lands, when the River was younger too, gollum, gollum.' He began to weep and mutter. The hobbits waited patiently.

'Tales out of the South,' Gollum went on again, 'about the tall Men with the shining eyes, and their houses like hills of stone, and the silver crown of their King and his White Tree: wonderful tales. They built very tall towers, and one they raised was silver-white, and in it there was a stone like the Moon, and round it were great white walls. O yes, there were many tales about the Tower of the Moon.'

The Two Towers Book IV Chapter 3: "The Black Gate is Closed"

No entanto, hesito em dizer que isso foi uma reflexão sobre o próprio Gollum; por sua própria admissão, esses contos lhe foram contados de volta quando ele era apenas Sméagol, meramente lembrado por ele séculos depois.

Até onde eu posso dizer, o interesse anterior de Sméagol em "raízes e origens" não refletiu na personalidade de Gollum, exceto que ele gostava de ficar em cavernas.

No entanto, posso dizer com confiança que Gollum ainda era curioso , pelo menos sobre uma coisa:

"What iss he, my preciouss?" whispered Gollum (who always spoke to himself through never having anyone else to speak to). This is what he had come to find out, for he was not really very hungry at the moment, only curious

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He was anxious to appear friendly, at any rate for the moment, and until he found out more about the sword and the hobbit, whether he was quite alone really, whether he was good to eat, and whether Gollum was really hungry.

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After a while Gollum began to hiss with pleasure to himself: "Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?" He began to peer at Bilbo out of the darkness.

The Hobbit Chapter 5: "Riddles in the Dark"

    
01.05.2016 / 05:37