Davem, if I remember correctly, it was either you or Lal who who mentioned how haunted Gollum is by the killing of Deagol; remorse and the defense he builds can only show a presence of morality.
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Even his near repentance on the stairs does not provide evidence that he felt betraying the Hobbits to Shelob was 'wrong' in any moral sense - merely that he felt sad that they 'had' to die that way.
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So, of what would he have repented, if not of his evil? How can we read repent in any other way than the moral one? You ignore Tolkien's opinion on him too, but I have gone throught that way too many times; or maybe not enough?