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Old 02-15-2013, 11:58 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took View Post
Would the Witch King have realised that Gollum was originally a hobbit, though? (Or of a hobbitlike folk, as Gandalf put it). Even Gollum doesn't identify with other hobbits as being of his own kind.
Gandalf made the connection so if Sauron got the riddles out of Smeagol he too could have deduced a similarity. But even if he didn't make the deduction Gollum was stil a creature which, like Thrain II and other Dwarves, had withstood becoming a wraith. That would be enough to imply that there would be others. The morgul blade would have been an insurance against this kind of resilience.
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