27-01-2003, 02:05
(7) Le cas de Sméagol
Il s’agit bien de Sméagol et non pas de Gollum : car si le second est détestable, le premier, qui semble être resté adolescent, est certainement le personnage le plus " pauvre " de tous ; le plus malheureux parce que le plus misérable dans tous les sens du terme : un être qui engendre pour les uns la pitié issue de l’écœurement (Sam, Gollum), pour d’autres la compassion véritable (Frodon) :
[citation=IV.1.600]`Don't hurt us! Don't let them hurt us, precious! They won't hurt us will they, nice little hobbitses? We didn't mean no harm, but they jumps on us like cats on poor mices, they did, precious. And we're so lonely, gollum. We'll be nice to them, very nice, if they'll be nice to us, won't we, yes, yess.' (…)
`No,' said Frodo. `If we kill him, we must kill him outright. But we can't do that, not as things are. Poor wretch! He has done us no harm.'[/citation]
[citation=IV.1.602]`Leave me alone, gollum! You hurt me. O my poor hands, gollum! (…)
Poor, poor Sméagol, he went away long ago. They took his Precious, and he's lost now.'[/citation]
[citation=IV.2.608]`Ach! No! ' he spluttered. `You try to choke poor Sméagol. Dust and ashes, he can't eat that. He must starve. But Sméagol doesn't mind. Nice hobbits! Sméagol has promised. He will starve. He can't eat hobbits' food. He will starve. Poor thin Sméagol! ' (…)
'Worms or beetles or something slimy out of holes,' thought Sam. 'Brr! The nasty creature; the poor wretch! '[/citation]
[citation=IV.3.624]`No. Master did not ask. Master did not say what he meant to do. He does not tell poor Sméagol.[/citation]
[citation=IV.3.629]'It's a lie! ' hissed Gollum, and an evil light came into his eyes at the naming of Aragorn. `He lied on me, yes he did. I did escape, all by my poor self.[/citation]
[citation=IV.4.639]'Stew the rabbits!' squealed Gollum in dismay. `Spoil beautiful meat Sméagol saved for you, poor hungry Sméagol![/citation]
[citation=IV.4.640]`No!' said Gollum. `Sméagol is not pleased. And Sméagol doesn't like smelly leaves. He doesn't eat grasses or roots, no precious, not till he's starving or very sick, poor Sméagol. '[/citation]
[citation=IV.6.671]Only poor Sméagol all alone.[/citation]
[citation=IV.6.672]`Not nice Master. Leaves poor Sméagol and goes with new friends. Master can wait. Sméagol hasn't finished.' (…)
`Nice Master! ' he whispered. `Nice hobbit, come back to poor Sméagol. Good Sméagol comes. (…)
'Away up there,' said Frodo, pointing to the waterfall. 'I am not going without him. We must go back to him.' His heart sank. This was too much like trickery. He did not really fear that Faramir would allow Gollum to be killed, but he would probably make him prisoner and bind him; and certainly what Frodo did would seem a treachery to the poor treacherous creature. It would probably be impossible ever to make him understand[/citation]
[citation=IV.6. 674]`We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just.'[/citation]
[citation=IV.8.698]`Well, I suppose you're right, Mr. Frodo,' said Sam. 'Not that it comforts me mightily. […] No, I suppose the whole time it's been The Precious for poor Sméagol. That's the one idea in all his little schemes, if he has any.[/citation]
[citation=IV.8.700]'It's tomorrow,' said Gollum, 'or this was tomorrow when hobbits went to sleep. Very foolish, very dangerous-if poor Sméagol wasn't sneaking about to watch.'[/citation]
[citation=IV.9.708{776}]`[…] the Precious, a reward for poor Sméagol who brings nice food.'[/citation]
Le dossier est énorme, plus que pour tout autre personnage ; nul doute qu’il faut y voir un signe de la thèse présentée par Tolkien : au final, ce n’est pas par ses forces que Frodon sauve la Terre-du-milieu (sur ce plan, il échoue totalement), mais c’est par la compassion qu’il aura su éprouver à l’égard de la plus vile créature.
Il s’agit bien de Sméagol et non pas de Gollum : car si le second est détestable, le premier, qui semble être resté adolescent, est certainement le personnage le plus " pauvre " de tous ; le plus malheureux parce que le plus misérable dans tous les sens du terme : un être qui engendre pour les uns la pitié issue de l’écœurement (Sam, Gollum), pour d’autres la compassion véritable (Frodon) :
[citation=IV.1.600]`Don't hurt us! Don't let them hurt us, precious! They won't hurt us will they, nice little hobbitses? We didn't mean no harm, but they jumps on us like cats on poor mices, they did, precious. And we're so lonely, gollum. We'll be nice to them, very nice, if they'll be nice to us, won't we, yes, yess.' (…)
`No,' said Frodo. `If we kill him, we must kill him outright. But we can't do that, not as things are. Poor wretch! He has done us no harm.'[/citation]
[citation=IV.1.602]`Leave me alone, gollum! You hurt me. O my poor hands, gollum! (…)
Poor, poor Sméagol, he went away long ago. They took his Precious, and he's lost now.'[/citation]
[citation=IV.2.608]`Ach! No! ' he spluttered. `You try to choke poor Sméagol. Dust and ashes, he can't eat that. He must starve. But Sméagol doesn't mind. Nice hobbits! Sméagol has promised. He will starve. He can't eat hobbits' food. He will starve. Poor thin Sméagol! ' (…)
'Worms or beetles or something slimy out of holes,' thought Sam. 'Brr! The nasty creature; the poor wretch! '[/citation]
[citation=IV.3.624]`No. Master did not ask. Master did not say what he meant to do. He does not tell poor Sméagol.[/citation]
[citation=IV.3.629]'It's a lie! ' hissed Gollum, and an evil light came into his eyes at the naming of Aragorn. `He lied on me, yes he did. I did escape, all by my poor self.[/citation]
[citation=IV.4.639]'Stew the rabbits!' squealed Gollum in dismay. `Spoil beautiful meat Sméagol saved for you, poor hungry Sméagol![/citation]
[citation=IV.4.640]`No!' said Gollum. `Sméagol is not pleased. And Sméagol doesn't like smelly leaves. He doesn't eat grasses or roots, no precious, not till he's starving or very sick, poor Sméagol. '[/citation]
[citation=IV.6.671]Only poor Sméagol all alone.[/citation]
[citation=IV.6.672]`Not nice Master. Leaves poor Sméagol and goes with new friends. Master can wait. Sméagol hasn't finished.' (…)
`Nice Master! ' he whispered. `Nice hobbit, come back to poor Sméagol. Good Sméagol comes. (…)
'Away up there,' said Frodo, pointing to the waterfall. 'I am not going without him. We must go back to him.' His heart sank. This was too much like trickery. He did not really fear that Faramir would allow Gollum to be killed, but he would probably make him prisoner and bind him; and certainly what Frodo did would seem a treachery to the poor treacherous creature. It would probably be impossible ever to make him understand[/citation]
[citation=IV.6. 674]`We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just.'[/citation]
[citation=IV.8.698]`Well, I suppose you're right, Mr. Frodo,' said Sam. 'Not that it comforts me mightily. […] No, I suppose the whole time it's been The Precious for poor Sméagol. That's the one idea in all his little schemes, if he has any.[/citation]
[citation=IV.8.700]'It's tomorrow,' said Gollum, 'or this was tomorrow when hobbits went to sleep. Very foolish, very dangerous-if poor Sméagol wasn't sneaking about to watch.'[/citation]
[citation=IV.9.708{776}]`[…] the Precious, a reward for poor Sméagol who brings nice food.'[/citation]
Le dossier est énorme, plus que pour tout autre personnage ; nul doute qu’il faut y voir un signe de la thèse présentée par Tolkien : au final, ce n’est pas par ses forces que Frodon sauve la Terre-du-milieu (sur ce plan, il échoue totalement), mais c’est par la compassion qu’il aura su éprouver à l’égard de la plus vile créature.