[GretchenEE]

wow - just listened to Gollum's Song -- reminds me of PJ saying on the FotR Extended Version Special Features that he wanted to present Cave Troll as being believable as a poor creature, obviously tormented by the Orcs (chain around his neck), whose mother was waiting for him somewhere with his bed turned down and a glass of milk. Who'd have imagined PJ and Shore could have evoked such pathos for Gollum? (And yet, still presenting an awareness that he was not without fault in clinging to darkness.)

[BibChr]

Each reading has impressed upon me what a tragic character Gollum is. The scene where his heart is reaching out to Frodo, yet Sam (understandably but catastrophically) misjudges him, and he turns once and for all... terribly sad.

This song haunts me. It complements that bleak, lonely, forsaken, reprobate creature's fated/chosen lot.

The corrupting evil of the Ring.

Dan

[RikaStrom]

Howard did the most amazing story telling with his music for LOTR.

Gollum's song is amazing. I am waiting, not patiently, for the 18th.

What a haunting song.