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Well they did make camp the night before on the - lets call it 'right' side of the river, while Gollum was seen coming to ground on a log on the left side (on the extended version) across the river from them. Could he have traveled all night and gotten ahead? I still would find it more believable if he had been, then, on the eye of the left-side Argonath statue. But the supposed Gollum is on the right one. Probably is just a nest. I'm going to look at it again. When I looked at it the last time, the only convincing thing was a big round bulbous headlike image above where the nest is. Very obscure even in magnification, but it doesn't fit in with the rest of the surroundings, so I thought it might be him there. Might not, though.

I don't have the extended DVD, so I can't say one way or the other. It wouldn't surprise me if the artists added Gollum into the picture near the top of the Argonath statue. I just don't understand why you'd want to put Gollum there.

It doesn't stand up to reason, to me, to put him there unless he knows they'll be coming that way. He has to run ahead, climb up, and then either climb or dive down. And he knew they'd come that way, anyway. Just so the camera can zoom up there and catch him. But the effect is cool on it's own without the "Easter egg."

I'd rather put Gollum in the background, like the guy you see jump from tree to tree in "The Wizard of Oz." Maybe lurking behind a tree when Boromir tries to take the Ring from Frodo. Or during the scene where Aragorn tells Frodo to go before covering his flight.