![]() Sam sums it up neatly, as they see Mordor in the distance: But always they found its outward faces sheer, high and impassable, frowning over the plain below beyond its tumbled skirts lay livid festering marshes where nothing moved and not even a bird was to be seen.” Yet on the whole they had worked steadily eastward, keeping as near as they could find a way to the outer edge of this strange twisted knot of hills. “It was the third evening since they had fled from the Company, as far as they could tell: they had almost lost count of the hours during which they had climbed and laboured among the barren slopes and stones of the Emyn Muil, sometimes retracing their steps because they could find no way forward, sometimes discovering that they had wandered in a circle back to where they had been hours before. They must make a painful way through hills, and occasionally in circles: We start with Frodo and Sam making a painful way towards Mordor.įor the first time since leaving The Shire – which Frodo at least knows well from long walks with Bilbo or alone – they are without a guide. But this ‘Shadow of a Shadow’ is introduced by stages. This arose in his long years as an underground eater of goblins, and lacks the shreds of decency that Smeagol kept from his original life. The original and far-from-virtuous personality of Smeagol co-exists with another and much worse personality. ![]() Frodo accepts him as Smeagol, but Sam later learns that this is a split being. I think the title is also the only place where the narrator uses the older name. ![]() From The Shadow of the Past, we already know that Gollum was originally Smeagol. In this chapter, Tolkien breaks his normal rule: the chapter title tells us what is about to happen.
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