#the rankin-bass return of the king movie was by all accounts terrible but I think that gollum is my favorite official adaptation gollum

[c-rowlesdraws]

SO uh. With the Gollum game coming out (for good or ill), I've had the guy on my mind lately and today I had a terrible epiphany, a breakthrough in the academic field of Weird Little Freak Studies:

look at me. Look me dead in the eyes. This is the same species of guy. They are brothers. If not by blood, than in spirit.

they BOTH throw themselves to their deaths from a height into a traditionally-hot thing (cauldron vs volcano) and, deliberately or unintentionally, bring down some powerful evil villain the heroes couldn't kill!! They're small and unpleasant and have an odd speech pattern! They hassle a white boy for some precious, coveted object:

I don't know what to do with this information and probably you won't, either, but I had to share. My eyes are opened forever