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Bilbo Vs Gollum Analysis

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Bilbo v.s Gollum Who will win in a riddle game bilbo or gollum? Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in peace and comfort. The Title of the book is The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien and the director is Peter Jackson. In the book a lonely hobbit lives by himself in a big hobbit hole. He is asked one day by the magnificent wizard Gandalf to come along with a group of 13 dwarves and they took plain old Bilbo on a adventure. On this journey he ends up being a leader and a great expert finding clues the dwarves missed. Two changes Jackson made was Gollum and his personality and who he is, also when they describe how he is feels when bilbo takes the ring from him, which are both ineffective for different reasons. One difference in the movie gollum has two personalities but in the book he would just answer himself. It was a good idea to change this scene because it had more action and it was funny. “What is it my preciousss? Whispered gollum (who always spoke to himself through never having anyone else to speak to) (”Tolkien 72). In the book gollum didn't have anyone to talk to so he would talk to …show more content…

It was a good idea to change it because you don't have to have the same things the book because it would be boring. “He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor”(Tolkien 68). When bilbo gets up and crawls he's touching the floor and he feels the ring that is made of cold metal. He thought it was just a ring but the ring had powers. On the other hand, jackson It was a good change because the dwarves and gandalf knows he is a thief. Him stealing the ring when gollum drops it makes it move action packed because how everyone is going to town wonder what happens to bilbo since he stole the ring. Is bilbo innocent or guilty for taking gollum's

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with its “complex matrix of internal realities, conflicts between subject and object, self and other, thought and action” (Mathews. 2002. 87). Nonetheless, in Gollum’s situation, the general method of character identification is to be seen as the consolidated impact of the Ring, the dark universe of obscurity and water he decides to live in and his own particular intrinsic character which leads to his physical and moral deterioration and consequently make him withdraw from the beautiful world of hobbit kind and lose moral and charitable nature. Despite the negative and the vague presentation of Gollum’s character that make him very hard to place in any distinct class he yet remains a Ring-carrier (to be trailed by Bilbo Baggins and afterward by Bilbo’s nephew Frodo, yet unexpectedly the one and only intended to turn into the Ring-destroyer) and additionally an individual from the same race. Bilbo and Gollum belonged to the same race; this can be initially seen in The Hobbit, their knowledge about the riddle game, bears a testimony to the fact that they shared a similar culture.

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