Gollum the Hero

[Juicy-Sweet]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

"Tolkien might have a better excuse for having wild coincidences advance his plot than most authors."

Like Pratchett's million-to-one chance: according to the rules of Narrative Causality, if you can get the odds of success of something ridiculous pushed up to a million to one, it's guaranteed to work.

And then again, it adds to Gollum's glory.

Being at the right spot at the right time out of sheer luck is the mark of great people