Frodo/Gollum fight at Sammath Naur - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Sleeping Beauty · 01-26-2004, 08:42 PM

I searched and I couldn't find anything, so here it goes. I knew something was bugging me about ROTK and I couldn't place my finger on it till I read the posts in the books about Frodo at Sammath Naur. But in the movie, was it just me, or was it just a bit odd that Frodo put up such a fight with Gollum even after he took Frodo's finger? I think I would have been in too much pain to be duking it out with Gollum, then nearly falling into the lava. Was there any reasoning as why Peter did that or is it just as fans of Frodo they wanted something else besides Gollum dancing himself silly into lava? Given reasoning of course being he needed a nice climax to the movie, but maybe any deeper meanings perhaps?

01-26-2004, 08:42 PM	#1
Sleeping Beauty Wight Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Somewhere between the back of the chair and the monitor Posts: 115	Frodo/Gollum fight at Sammath Naur I searched and I couldn't find anything, so here it goes. I knew something was bugging me about ROTK and I couldn't place my finger on it till I read the posts in the books about Frodo at Sammath Naur. But in the movie, was it just me, or was it just a bit odd that Frodo put up such a fight with Gollum even after he took Frodo's finger? I think I would have been in too much pain to be duking it out with Gollum, then nearly falling into the lava. Was there any reasoning as why Peter did that or is it just as fans of Frodo they wanted something else besides Gollum dancing himself silly into lava? Given reasoning of course being he needed a nice climax to the movie, but maybe any deeper meanings perhaps? __________________ "If I knew all of the answers, I'd run for God." ~ Klinger: MAS*H