On which finger had frodo the ring, when gollum... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

05-09-2003, 06:20 AM

I'm surprised at the appearent consensus in this matter.

An interesting question in this respect is weather Tolkien (or perhaps his wife of mother) played the piano.
This was quite a bourgeois way of spending your time from the 1860's onward (it was respectable hobby for culturally interested people) and if Tolkien ever had piano lessons he would always have numbered the fingers from thum to little finger as 1,2,3,4 and 5.
The biting of Gollum could mean to freudians that he in fact did have to play ... and hated every minute of it!

05-09-2003, 06:20 AM	#33
Bombadillo Guest Posts: n/a	I'm surprised at the appearent consensus in this matter. An interesting question in this respect is weather Tolkien (or perhaps his wife of mother) played the piano. This was quite a bourgeois way of spending your time from the 1860's onward (it was respectable hobby for culturally interested people) and if Tolkien ever had piano lessons he would always have numbered the fingers from thum to little finger as 1,2,3,4 and 5. The biting of Gollum could mean to freudians that he in fact did have to play ... and hated every minute of it!