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It came to me, my own, my love, my precious.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
These few seconds tell you everything about the Ring before the title card is long gone: it is loved the way an addict loves, and it ruins the person who loves it. Bilbo's own 'my precious' at Bag End, minutes later, is the same sickness in a gentler host. 'Precious' became shorthand for obsessive possession, and Gollum's wheedling whisper is the voice people reach for when they hoard something.
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In context
Spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingShow the scene
Gollum's first appearance is in the film's prologue. As Galadriel narrates how the Ring passed from Isildur, who lost it in a river, to the creature Gollum, the film shows a mountain cave and a murky pool. In the gloom an emaciated figure whispers the line to himself, as if the Ring were a lover. Galadriel adds that it gave him unnatural long life and poisoned his mind for five hundred years, until it abandoned him and was found by Bilbo.
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- IMSDb: The Fellowship of the Ring scriptPrologue, Gollum's caveReference checked
- Wikipedia: The Fellowship of the RingPlot summaryReference checked
- The One Wiki to Rule Them All: GollumInfobox and biographyReference checked
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