SOURCE: Arthur, Elizabeth. “Above All Shadows Rides the Sun: Gollum as Hero.” Mythlore 18, no. 1 (autumn 1991): 19-27.
In the following essay, Arthur contends that Gollum is a hero in the sense that he is Tolkien's most complex and human-like character.
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