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I always felt that Gollum got a bad deal. So here I have a Gollum who got it slightly better: instead of falling into the fires, he 'only' stuck one hand in. The world was saved and he has magic gold for skin on part of his fingers and palm, everyone wins.
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Jan. 22nd, 2019 08:28 pmOh, if only we could simply sleep
Until the very end of Arda Marred
With no more thought of rings.
No fires of Orodruin to think about
Just sleep and dreams of better days
Before the One destroyed us.
Oh, if only we were not oath-bound
To return to where we were tortured
And in oath-breaking burned.
Or that we did not keep our oaths
Even in the breaking, letting ourself fall
Never to feel the joy of water e'er again.
Until the very end of Arda Marred
With no more thought of rings.
No fires of Orodruin to think about
Just sleep and dreams of better days
Before the One destroyed us.
Oh, if only we were not oath-bound
To return to where we were tortured
And in oath-breaking burned.
Or that we did not keep our oaths
Even in the breaking, letting ourself fall
Never to feel the joy of water e'er again.
On Ringses And Hobbitses
Feb. 2nd, 2015 10:56 pm The Ring must have found hobbits endlessly frustrating; they have no vision at all and less than zero ambition. Smeagol spends 500 years using it to surprise fish, and once it escapes him Bilbo finds it and spends another 50 years using it to avoid awkward moments! They must be the most aggravating bearers a sapient evil artifact could possibly imagine.
Small Headcanons
Jan. 4th, 2015 03:43 am *It was the day of Smeagol's majority that he and Deagol found the One, which is why he was so insistent about it being his birthday.
**This means that Gollum was born in 2430, making him 589 during the War of the Ring (3019).
*Smeagol buried Deagol under a weeping willow in the Gladden Fields, where they had sat together often. Sometimes he still sees it in his dreams. Indeed, without those dreams he would have forgotten trees entirely, since he spent 474 years in his cave.
*Gollum's cave became a memorial of sorts to all those the rings of Sauron corrupted and destroyed. At it's entrance is a plaque which reads, in all languages from Hobbitish Westron to Qenya to the Black Speech of Mordor, "Here the halfling Smeagol, called Gollum, dwelt in misery from 2470 Third Age to 2944 Third Age. Of those 474 years, he was bearer of the One Ring for 471, and had been for 7 years before. He was the longest mortal ever to be Ringbearer, and this place is a memorial to his suffering and that of all others Sauron ruined."
*Smeagol's gravestone lies, or shall lie, on the Gladden Fields, under an old willow tree. It reads 'Smeagol, called Gollum, of the Stoors. It's been a long, long time, but he is home at last.'
**If one looks close they will find that it is a box, and within lies a cruder marking. This one reads 'Heer wuz wunse layn Deagol, ar Kuzin, in long agez uv the Wurld. The Wurld haz forgoten him, but I shal Remember.'
**This means that Gollum was born in 2430, making him 589 during the War of the Ring (3019).
*Smeagol buried Deagol under a weeping willow in the Gladden Fields, where they had sat together often. Sometimes he still sees it in his dreams. Indeed, without those dreams he would have forgotten trees entirely, since he spent 474 years in his cave.
*Gollum's cave became a memorial of sorts to all those the rings of Sauron corrupted and destroyed. At it's entrance is a plaque which reads, in all languages from Hobbitish Westron to Qenya to the Black Speech of Mordor, "Here the halfling Smeagol, called Gollum, dwelt in misery from 2470 Third Age to 2944 Third Age. Of those 474 years, he was bearer of the One Ring for 471, and had been for 7 years before. He was the longest mortal ever to be Ringbearer, and this place is a memorial to his suffering and that of all others Sauron ruined."
*Smeagol's gravestone lies, or shall lie, on the Gladden Fields, under an old willow tree. It reads 'Smeagol, called Gollum, of the Stoors. It's been a long, long time, but he is home at last.'
**If one looks close they will find that it is a box, and within lies a cruder marking. This one reads 'Heer wuz wunse layn Deagol, ar Kuzin, in long agez uv the Wurld. The Wurld haz forgoten him, but I shal Remember.'
