Anonymous ID: a809da Nov. 15, 2021, 2:47 p.m. No.15006578   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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>WALRUS AND CARPENTER STILL UNMARRIED

and about Gollum? Do you really know it all, or are you just

guessing still?โ€™

Gandalf looked at Frodo, and his eyes glinted. โ€˜I knew

much and I have learned much,โ€™ he answered. โ€˜But I am not

going to give an account of all my doings to you. The history

of Elendil and Isildur and the One Ring is known to all the

 

Wise. Your ring is shown to be that One Ring by the fire-

writing alone, apart from any other evidence.โ€™

โ€˜And when did you discover that?โ€™ asked Frodo, inter-

rupting.

โ€˜Just now in this room, of course,โ€™ answered the wizard

sharply. โ€˜But I expected to find it. I have come back from

 

dark journeys and long search to make that final test. It is the

 

last proof, and all is now only too clear. Making out Gollumโ€™s

part, and fitting it into the gap in the history, required some

 

thought. I may have started with guesses about Gollum, but

 

I am not guessing now. I know. I have seen him.โ€™

โ€˜You have seen Gollum?โ€™ exclaimed Frodo in amazement.

 

โ€˜Yes. The obvious thing to do, of course, if one could. I

tried long ago; but I have managed it at last.โ€™

โ€˜Then what happened after Bilbo escaped from him? Do

you know that?โ€™

โ€˜Not so clearly. What I have told you is what Gollum was

willing to tell โ€“ though not, of course, in the way I have

 

reported it. Gollum is a liar, and you have to sift his words.

 

For instance, he called the Ring his โ€˜โ€˜birthday-presentโ€™โ€™, and

 

he stuck to that. He said it came from his grandmother, who

 

had lots of beautiful things of that kind. A ridiculous story. I

 

have no doubt that Sme agolโ€™s grandmother was a matriarch,

a great person in her way, but to talk of her possessing many

 

Elven-rings was absurd, and as for giving them away, it was

 

a lie. But a lie with a grain of truth.

โ€˜The murder of De agol haunted Gollum, and he had made

up a defence, repeating it to his โ€˜โ€˜Preciousโ€™โ€™ over and over

 

again, as he gnawed bones in the dark, until he almost

 

believed it. It was his birthday. De agol ought to have given

the ring to him. It had obviously turned up just so as to be

eB07 ID: a809da Nov. 15, 2021, 3:12 p.m. No.15006786   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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