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Originally Posted by Juicy-Sweet
As well I have some questions to clear up...
1: I always wondered how he managed to be ready in West Moria right when the Ring Bearer passed by. I read somewhere it was thought he had entered Moria to escape his elven pursuers, then tried passing through and get out on the West side, but found the gate closed. How did he know one could through Moria? From orcs pherhaps? This strikes me as just too much of a coincidence. He spent 77 years looking for the ring - which could be ANYWERE in Middle Earth. Then suddenly it walks right past him, after he has been sitting camping at a closed gate for months. Boy was that lucky?
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I'd suggest that Gollum just happening to be in West Moria would be as much as a coincidence as Gandalf just happening to meet Thorin Oakenshield in Bree, or Tom Bombadil just happened to pass by Old Man Willow when the hobbits needed him, or a whole bunch of people just happening to arrive at Rivendell just in time for the Council of Elrond. Given the way the Valar play with fate, luck and coincidence, Tolkien might have a better excuse for having wild coincidences advance his plot than most authors.