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Originally Posted by Inziladun
That seems possible to me. Gollum had entered Moria from the east and had been there a while. He would have been much more likely to have known other routes around the road the Fellowship was forced to take. Aragorn and Gandalf had both once passed through Moria, but they presumably had been looking for the shortest and straightest ways through, so they wouldn't have known all ways leading to the Doors.
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That's fine; however, would Gollum have time to get 'round? He needed to keep the Fellowship in sight to see where they were going. Did he know for sure that they were going to the East Gate?
Note that, after the collapse of the Chamber of Mazarbul, even the orcs couldn't find a path to the Fellowship.
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And any Orcs would have been on the lookout for the Fellowship, not one little withered hobbit, so I don't think it's out of the question he could have got past them.
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Do we know if the orcs gave Gollum free reign?
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Aragorn knew all about Gollum, or at least that's what he told Frodo.
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Either Aragorn didn't think it important, or he really didn't know, but you'd think that if Aragorn knew that Gollum was close behind that he would have told the Elves. Their surprise and lack of knowledge about this strange creature means, to me, that Aragorn said nothing.
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Amazing what lust for the One Ring and a natual 'sneaking' tendancy could enable one to accomplish....
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Truly.