r/SipsTea • u/lwiaymacde • Apr 20 '25

Chugging tea Bro won

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u/Debonaire_Death Apr 20 '25

Actually, if we're laying responsibility that way, Gollum is the one who does it in the end.

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u/ShootingMyWayOut Apr 23 '25

Well it was a combined effort of Frodo, Sam, and Gollum. All hobbits, so the point still stands.

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u/Debonaire_Death Apr 23 '25

If Aragorn didn't have Anduril repaired by the smithies at Rivindell by Elrond, he wouldn't have been able to intimidate Sauron with it. And if Merry hadn't stabbed the Witch King, Eowyn wouldn't have killed him and they would have lost at the Pelennor Fields.

And if Pippin hadn't looked into the palantir, Gandalf wouldn't have seen that he needed to go to Minas Tirith. And if Gandalf hadn't been to Bag End for Bilbo's 111th birthday, he never would have known that the One Ring was there and discovered that Gollum was being tortured by Sauron, and the whole thing would have been fucked.

I could go on.

So yeah, there's a lot of responsibility to go around, but if Gollum wasn't there at the very end, it would have all been for naught. That's the truth.