Post by Stormrider on Jan 19, 2009 12:55:43 GMT -6
From: Stormridr (Original Message) Sent: 5/27/2003 10:01 PM
Frodo's final goal is in reach. He must destroy The Ring so that Sauron can be defeated, but The Ring has taken a strong hold on him. Sam is there to help Frodo. Gollum is there to get his "precioussss" back.
Try to put yourself in Frodo's place as he tells Sam Farewell: "This is the end at last. On Mount Doom doom shall fall. Farewell!" He turned and went on, walking slowly but erect, up the climbing path.
What is Frodo thinking and feeling here?
What conflicts are preying on his mind?
Did he doubt himself?
There on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Frodo, black against the glare, tense, erect, but still as if he had been turned to stone.
This is the moment we have waited for! But Frodo spoke in a clear powerful voice:
"I have come, but I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!" Then he set the Ring on his finger and vanished!
Did you expect this? Was this the only choice Frodo could have made at this fatal moment? What is Frodo's purpose in claiming the Ring?
But good old Gollum came to the rescue! With his lust for the Ring and sight fixed only on getting it back, Gollum did not see the edge of the brink and delivered the Ring to the firey pit it was forged in! Was this accidental or did Frodo's curse ("If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom.") affect Gollum's fate?
What would have happened if Sam had not let Gollum go outside the Cracks and had killed him instead? Would either Frodo or Sam have been able to destroy the Ring? Would they have fought over it?
Mount Doom by B. Ellis Dejong
Frodo's final goal is in reach. He must destroy The Ring so that Sauron can be defeated, but The Ring has taken a strong hold on him. Sam is there to help Frodo. Gollum is there to get his "precioussss" back.
Try to put yourself in Frodo's place as he tells Sam Farewell: "This is the end at last. On Mount Doom doom shall fall. Farewell!" He turned and went on, walking slowly but erect, up the climbing path.
What is Frodo thinking and feeling here?
What conflicts are preying on his mind?
Did he doubt himself?
There on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Frodo, black against the glare, tense, erect, but still as if he had been turned to stone.
This is the moment we have waited for! But Frodo spoke in a clear powerful voice:
"I have come, but I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!" Then he set the Ring on his finger and vanished!
Did you expect this? Was this the only choice Frodo could have made at this fatal moment? What is Frodo's purpose in claiming the Ring?
But good old Gollum came to the rescue! With his lust for the Ring and sight fixed only on getting it back, Gollum did not see the edge of the brink and delivered the Ring to the firey pit it was forged in! Was this accidental or did Frodo's curse ("If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom.") affect Gollum's fate?
What would have happened if Sam had not let Gollum go outside the Cracks and had killed him instead? Would either Frodo or Sam have been able to destroy the Ring? Would they have fought over it?