When Frodo becomes the conveyor of the ring, Gollum’s only objective involves chasing him, to the point of transforming into his shadow and of being seen by an extensive number of readers as representing some obscurity in Frodo’s own character. The intensity of the bond between the two, and also the inconceivable possibility of putting Gollum among the negative characters in the story, emerges with specific clarity from the absence of any feeling of triumph after his death. Dissimilar to all the malevolent characters pulverized for good to win, Gollum remains a singular case in association with the legend that his death is the result of a horrible individual battle and is perceived as the loss of a part of Frodo’s own
