Seriously, Snyder missed an opportunity by cutting the Riddle Game. He’s extremely creepy, in a mad and twisted sort of way – rather than being the sort of pitiful creature one associates with the character in The Lord of the Rings, he’s something one would want to run away from. Alas, I have only seen seven of them, since the Jackanory BBC adaptation of The Hobbit (1979) has never been released again, so far as I know.Ĭonsidering that they couldn’t even get his name right, and that the film barely counts as a Tolkien adaptation, the 1966 Gollum might be my favourite representation. ![]() There are eight screen Gollums of which I am aware, not counting pre-Ring Sméagols. How, then, to visually capture this weird and elusive figure… While I do intend to eventually post a wider Gollum analysis, today I thought I would take a look at how the adaptions handle him – it is all very well to throw up vague literary descriptions (and Tolkien’s writings are often a bit shadowy here), but the screen does not have that luxury. No-one could suggest the same of Gollum, with his six teeth and webbed feet. Denethor and Feanor have their idiosyncrasies, yes, but both look normal. ![]() Tolkien’s Gollum is one of his most memorable characters, and this memorability is reinforced by the character’s distinctive appearance.
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