Gollum and Valinor...

[Elenhin]

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Re: Gollum and Valinor...

This may be off the point a bit, but I'll say it anyway. I don't think that Gollum would have survived the destruction of the Ring, no matter where he was when it happened. Look at the other beings enslaved by Rings of Power, Nazgul: when their rings are destroyed in the fall of Barad-dur, they instantly lose control, crash and die. The same would probably happen to Gollum.

And if he somehow had survived, Inziladun is right in saying that Gollum wouldn't have been admitted to the West. Gollum got the Ring by failing to resist the temptation and murdered his cousin to get it. It wasn't an independent decision on the part of Gollum, as the Ring's power was affecting him, but he was still too weak to reject it and became evil that way. Just look at poor Boromir...

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