I think you made an excellent point in your essay, about the breaking of oaths being so prevalent in our world that it's barely noted. Honor is spurned by many in this world of ours. That is why many readers don't understand that Gollum's oathbreaking doomed him to fall at the Sammath Naur, and it was not a convenient device of the author. It was the fulfillment of the laws he had been outlining for us all through the Trilogy. That's likely why the scene is played as it is in the movie, because PJ and the other writers knew most viewers would feel cheated if Gollum slipped and fell, without a struggle with Frodo to explain it.
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Date: 2007-10-12 09:37 pm (UTC)