12/25/2023 0 Comments Pictures of gollum lord of the rings>The black crawling shape was now three-quarters of the way down, and perhaps fifty feet or less above the cliff’s foot. >Down the face of a precipice, sheer and almost smooth it seemed in the pale moonlight, a small black shape was moving with its thin limbs splayed out. He was Gollum as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. >Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I’ve described some passages from the hobbit/lotr. AS a matter of fact, it seems all characters perceive and describe gollum as black, while only the narrator ever describes gollum as being white. However, Angorborn, Faramir, and Shagrat’s descriptions all seem very literal, and not metaphorical at all. I have heard some claim that any description of Gollum being black is metiphorical. What color was Gollum? The books seem to go back and forth on this. Saruman was a white-skinned guy whose symbol was the white hand and he was known as Saruman the White so I suppose because of all that he really wasn’t evil, was he? Never mind the fact that Tolkien described many characters on the side of good as dark-skinned or dark-complexioned the anti-racists insist that in Tolkien’s fiction “good = white” and “bad = black”. The topic of skin color (or complexion) inevitably leads people to decry what they perceive to be racist stereotypes in The Lord of the Rings. This is like “are Orcs black-skinned or something else?” I think whatever you want to imagine his appearance should be is perfectly acceptable. So, before we get to the specifics of the question, let me restate three obvious, well-known facts: Gollum was a hobbit (his people were the “Stoors of the Gladden Fields”) who had possessed the One Ring for hundreds of years, and he had lived underground for most of that time. Tolkien seemed inconsistent and the movies used light to match the book’s conflicted tones. Was Gollum dark-skinned or light-skinned? J.R.R. The “let’s blog about it” point of view has prevailed in my mind. But this is one of those potentially incendiary questions and I have debated whether to address it on the blog. You said nothing wrong or which offends me. ANSWER: How does one respond to this question? Submitted in June 2018, I have cringed every time I’ve looked at the message.
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