Tolkien themes (2)

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

I think that there are some themes that Tolkien embedded into his works. Here's one: lonliness is a horrible feeling. I thought of this when I was reading a thread about Arwen. I thought of a connection between her and gollum. If you think about it, they both lived for a long period of time. Arwen was an elf so she had immortality and lived for 3000+ years (I don't know for sure so correct me if I'm wrong) and gollum, due to the ring, had lived far beyond his time for I don't know how long. Both knew what it was like to be alone.

Well, love and friendship are two different things, but loniness deals with both. Arwen might have had family and friends around her, but she didn't have a lover. She had been alone all her life until Aragorn. Gollum once had friends but he lost them all. He lived alone, with no one at all around him, spare the encounters like Bilbo. The only thing he knew was himself and the ring. He knows what it's like to be alone for so long.

Now, I wonder if Arwen knew of gollum, and the lonliness he suffered before she chose to give up her mortality?

Well, this is sort of underdeveloped, sorry. But, expand if you want, and try to develop it yourself.