Is there any hope of redemption ...?

[Eru]

By redemption, Pan, it appears you mean redemption by a creator figure outside the bounds of Arda, where the fëa of men go after they die. I'm not very authoritative on the theosophical cosmology of Tolkien's world, but I think I can say that this is an assumption rather than a fact. We do not know for sure that Eru judges the souls of men, the way that the Christian god or holy trinity is said to do.

i don't think he was implying that, but who am i to say? i always thought redemption to be in the eyes of other mortals/immortals. my thoughts.

Gollum was so enamored with the ring that he didn't care what alliances he had to form in order to have it. He didn't want Sauron to have it, not because he was evil but because he wanted it himself.

i always have accosiated these characteristics with evil people. seeing them as selfish and uncaring. evil.