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regarding your thoughts on Gollum/Smeagol:

Oscar for Serkis. I was in tears when Gollum calls Smeagol a murderer.


A question for you as well:
I had this discussion with a friend I viewed the movie with (second viewing).

When Grima drops the single tear upon viewing the army of Sauruman... I took it as a sign of Grima's last vestige of humanity coming to the surface and his realization of the destruction he has helped come to his people.

My friend thought that they were tears of joy?!

Yourself?

[FormerRep]

I'll side with you. Wormtongue did not want to destroy the Rohan people - he wanted to rule them with Eowyn as his queen (willing or not). I can only assume he saw all his hopes dashed at that moment and had nothing left to claim as his own.

[My2Cents]

Good question (about Wormtongue's tear). I believe it was a tear of "joy," as your friend suggested. There was nothing in Grima which indicated anything of humanity; nothing redeemable (although, I believe that Tolkien personally believed that no one was beyond redemption). He was utterly corrupt (even more than Smeagol perhaps?). His tear came, I believe, as he was touched by the "thing of beauty" that was Saruman's army. It was, to our sensibilities, a disgusting show of depravity.