![]() ![]() ![]() 'Who knows? Smeagol doesn't know,' answered Gollum. There! Is it some devilry hatched in the Dark Land? ' 'But that is an age and more ago,' said Sam. But the Marshes have grown since then, swallowed up the They fought on the plain for days and months at theīlack Gates. Tall Men with long swords, and terrible Elves, and Smeagol was young, when I was young before the Precious came. There was a great battle long ago, yes, so they told him when Thought I saw there Men and Elves, and Orcs beside them.' 'Yes, yes,' Many faces proud and fair,Īnd weeds in their silver hair. I saw them: grimįaces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. 'I don't know,' said Frodo in a dreamlike voice. `Who are they? What are they? ' asked Sam shuddering, turning to Should not look in when the candles are lit.' 'The Dead Marshes, yes, yes: that is their names,' he cackled. ![]() In the book, Gollum knows not to follow the lights because he tried to reach out and touch them on his original journey through the Marshes and was unable to. In the film, Gollum reiterates "don't follow the lights" - as an "I told you not to do that, see, something bad can happen to you, I know what I'm talking about, you can trust me." Frodo surely expected that it was Sam that had rescued him, not Gollum. What Frodo "sees" when saying / looking at Gollum after being saved is a last vestige of humanity in Gollum, that he, Gollum, would save Frodo. Frodo however, does exactly that, and Gollum saves him. In the film, Gollum tells them to not follow the lights - namely, don't get distracted by the light (like a mirage) and tumble into the water. Gollum relates this information to the hobbits, and tells them to not touch or enter the water, lest they die (ie - 'light candles of their own') as well (either from basic drowning or supernatural curse is unstated I believe). They are ghostly / unreachable corpses that seem to have an ethereal light or "candle" around them. The bodies in the Dead Marshes are fell corpses from the Battle of Dagorlad (The Last Alliance of Men and Elves against Sauron, depicted in the prolouge of the first film). ![]()
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