lord of the rings - what animal rescued gollum

No, the answer must be that Tolkien portrayed Gollum as a creature corrupted by evil. Assuming Gollum has gone feral in some way, would he then not eat potatoes to save his life? Of course he would.

Hobbits are, from all accounts, very much omnivorous. Cats, on the other hand, are strictly carnivores, and will hardly eat day-old cat food. Heck, I have to stop her from eating paper bags that smell like anything edible. Ask my dog if she minds eating my rabbit stew. I think it makes no sense at all from any logical point of view. Gollum just prefers his food as a primitve cave person would. He'd be happy to eat the rabbit, if it was raw. So you see, it's not the food, it's just the way it is served, in the case of the stew. Gollum: Oh yes we could! Give it to us raw and wriggling! You keep nasty chips. Sam: P-O-T-A-T-O-E, boil em, mash em, put em in a stew. Gollum: What's tators, precious? What's tators?

Sam: What's to ruin? There's hardly any meat on em. Gollum: What's it doing? Stupid fat hobbit! You ruins it! 'Like other products of the Elves, it was offensive to evil creatures Gollum refused outright to eat of it.'Īs for the rabbit stew, I believe that after years of living in a cave and eating only raw fish, he balks at anything cooked, just like a wolf or other wild animal would if you gave it a stew made of potatoes and rabbit. Gollum is revolted by Lembas (Elven bread) because most evil beings have a hatred for all things Elven.

Lord of the rings - what animal rescued gollum