I'm going with the language from Galadriel's opening narration in PJ's Fellowship, as I assume it's what more people are familiar with. In the book, Gandalf is more precise: "it abandoned Gollum. Only to be picked up by the most unlikely person imaginable: Bilbo from the Shire!"
I've never thought about it but yeah - it's always the Hobbitses.
Though I do wonder if maybe the slight inconsistency was a result of the rewriting of Gollum. To my knowledge, he was never envisioned as a Hobbit.
Rather, Tolkien figured this out way later for LOTR and retconned him as Smeagol.
I'm going with the language from Galadriel's opening narration in PJ's Fellowship, as I assume it's what more people are familiar with. In the book, Gandalf is more precise: "it abandoned Gollum. Only to be picked up by the most unlikely person imaginable: Bilbo from the Shire!"
Four if you count Sam.
Five if you count Frodo!
Oh this is hilarious! 😂😂
Thanks for the Amazon sale links! I just bought Tolkien’s letters. :-)
Jeez, what’s next? Some human hero betraying his allies to keep the ring for himself?
This is splendid. 😂