This takes place during the 17-year time skip between Bilbo’s birthday party and when Frodo returns home to discover an agitated Gandalf in his home asking if the Ring’s safe. What, you didn’t think it felt like Gandalf going to read that diary in Gondor took 17 years??? Yeah, the movies kinda streamlined and simplified that part.
It’s wild they’re retroactively adding shit they just completely excised in the original film adaptations. What’s next, a side movie about the Hobbits encountering the barrow wights and Tom Bombadil before they reach Bree? A movie about the Scouring of the Shire?
sc2pirate@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s been a minute since I’ve read the books, so feel free to correct me, but doesnt Gandalf ask Aragorn to find Gollum after Bilbo’s birthday? Then they imprison him with the elves who feel pity for him and let him climb a tree. Then he won’t come down or something and gets away.
I assumed this is what the hunt for Gollum is, but I haven’t looked at anything to confirm this.
“Precious, it’s been called that before…”
yggdar@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That is what I remember too.
fox2263@lemmy.world 3 months ago
He’s also captured by Saurons forces at some point before being let out to find the gang in Moria
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Right, right, right. I forgot about that detail. It feels like, again, they don’t though, right? Gollum is found by orcs (?) and interrogated before sneaking out and eventually stalking Frodo.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
He didn’t sneak out, they let him go so they could tail him and find The Ring.
keyez@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I think that’s more where this will lie, the elves or someone hunts him after he escapes but he gets away until Bilbo runs into him.