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August 28, 2006
Smeagol
The following is a blog repeat for a slow blog week, but hopefully it will be new to some of you all. It is part of a larger sonnet cycle dedicated to the Ringbearers in the Lord of the Rings.
Smeagol a ringbearer? Well, yes and no. He physically bore the ring, but could not bear to resist the temptation it proffered, and so it enslaved him to his ultimate ruin. In my sonnet cycle, which needs revision to make it more accurate, each of the true ringbearers, Bilbo, Frodo, Samwise, have two sonnets, a "before" and "after" vis a vis the ring, if you will. I gave Smeagol/Gollum only one sonnet, because, of course, there was no "after" for him.
This sonnet is an imagined plea from either one of Smeagol's relatives shortly after he got the ring and began his murderous spiral towards damnation or a plea by Gandalf when he imprisoned Gollum for the good of Middle Earth, and it should be added for the good of Gollum. Admittedly, the language rather heavy-handedly makes connections to the Christian faith, but I do not think this is an unwarranted tack to take.
Random Poetry | By jackdas | 4:14 PM
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