I don't think it was those words of Frodo that caused the fall of Gollum - but Grace:
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Originally Posted by Letter #151
He did rob him and injure him in the end - but by a 'grace', that last betrayal was at a precise juncture when the final evil deed was the most beneficial thing any one cd. have done for Frodo!
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Originally Posted by Letter #191
He (and the Cause) were saved - by Mercy : by the supreme value and efficacy of Pity and forgiveness of injury.
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And more evidently here:
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Originally Posted by Letter #192
Frodo deserved all honour because he spent every drop of his power of will and body, and that was just sufficient to bring him to the destined point, and no further. Few others, possibly no others of his time, would have got so far. The Other Power then took over: the Writer of the Story (by which I do not mean myself), 'that one ever-present Person who is never absent and never named' (as one critic has said).
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