![]() The Sméagol persona uses I instead of we, and pretty decent grammar by comparison, and never uses the "my precious" affectation.įrom the above dialogue, at first glance, it seems an open-and-shut case that the "we" refers to Gollum and Sméagol. Make the other hobbit, the nasty suspicious hobbit, make him crawl, yes, gollum!Īs you can see, "we" is used by the Gollum persona, and the Gollum persona is the one that constantly uses the "my precious" expression. Gollum: Then take it, and let's hold it ourselfs! Then we shall be master, gollum. Sméagol: But the Precious holds the promise. Not hurt the nice hobbit, of course, no, no. Gollum: Very very good, eh, my precious? Let's be good, good as fish, sweet one, but to ourselfs. Nice hobbit! He took cruel rope off Sméagol's leg. Sméagol: But Sméagol said he would be very very good. But if we was master, then we could help ourselfs, yes, and still keep promises. ![]() Gollum: Yes, yes, to help the master: the master of the Precious. I've modified it slightly to show just the speech, along with the name of the personality speaking, and I've emphasized the personal pronouns: It's at the end of Book IV, Chapter 2, The Passage of the Marshes. From the book The Two Towers, here's the Gollum/Sméagol dialogue. ![]()
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