Alan Sisto
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you know, you can only come in one at a time.
Make it really hard.
So the whole point though, is that after five months and making it all the way to that side, it is particularly good luck for him.
The text says that it was marvelous luck or whatever.
Is it really luck?
I don't know that it's luck.
I mean, there's not a lot of luck in Tolkien.
It's more often the intervention of fate.
But anyway, it's good luck for Gollum when Frodo and his companions enter Moria.
I mean, it's obvious.
The text doesn't tell us this is Gollum, but the text doesn't need to.
It doesn't have to spell it out.
This is Gollum following them.
And it took all the way until they got to that three-way split, which I think was...
three or four rests in.
I don't know about three or four nights.
I think it was just three or four rests, so maybe a couple of days in.