Bilbo & Gollum
I just did some checking in the Hobbit and the LotR and now I've got a question.
Gandalf tells in 'The Shadow of the Past' the history of Gollum. Gollum was a hobbit-kind of creature before he gained the One Ring.
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'Long after the fall of Isildur, but still very long ago, there lived by the banks of the Great River on the edge of Wilderland a clever-handed and quiet-footed little people. I guess they were of hobbit-kind; akin to the fathers of the fathers of the Stoors...'
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'There was a great deal in the background of their minds and memories that was very similar. They understood one another remarkably well, very much better than a hobbit would understand, say, a Dwarf, or an Orc, or even an Elf.'
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So, most likely Gollum was of hobbit-kind. Bilbo of course is a hobbit... so my question is: why doesn't Gollum know what Bilbo when he sees him on the bank, and not even when he recalls memories of old times when he hadn't got the Ring yet?
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'You?' cried Frodo.
'Yes, I, Gandalf the Grey,' said the wizard solemnly. 'There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.'
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