Looking inside the Sauron Project - Page 12
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Some people insist this is really Frodo speaking (although the text argues against such a notion). Whatever one wishes to see in the literary story, the scene will only work if the voice is clearly shown to be the Ring's, because if Frodo is directly responsible for Gollum's tumbling into the fire, the whole premise of the movies will be shaken. If it's simply a matter of using the Ring to order Gollum to destroy himself, then why shouldn't Frodo do that before the end, before his life is at stake?
In fact, if Frodo is powerful enough to control the Ring at Orodruin, then he should be powerful enough to confront and defeat Sauron. And he is not. He cannot be. The third movie cannot end that way. Even Willow Ufgood's disappearing pig trick shouldn't work on Sauron. The only way to defeat a Dark Lord should be to let the Dark Lord defeat himself. His overconfidence in his power has to be his undoing.
And that's what really destroys Palpatine in the end, isn't it? No wonder he is such a good villain.
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