lord of the rings the two towers frodo and sam gollum

The first thing he saw was Gollum - ‘pawing at master,’ as he thought. For a fleeting moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they would have thought that they beheld an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing.īut at that touch Frodo stirred and cried out softly in his sleep, and immediately Sam was wide awake. Then he came back, and slowly putting out a trembling hand, very cautiously he touched Frodo’s knee–but almost the touch was a caress. A spasm of pain seemed to twist him, and he turned away, peering back up towards the pass, shaking his head, as if engaged in some interior debate. The gleam faded from his eyes, and they went dim and grey, old and tired. A strange expression passed over his lean hungry face. In his lap lay Frodo’s head, drowned deep in sleep upon his white forehead lay one of Sam’s brown hands, and the other lay softly upon his master’s breast. Sam sat propped against the stone, his head dropping sideways and his breathing heavy.

“And so Gollum found them hours later, when he returned, crawling and creeping down the path out of the gloom ahead.

Lord of the rings the two towers frodo and sam gollum