This is why audiences all over the world have warmed to his character.” “Smeagol would never dream of wielding power over those weaker than himself,” the statement read. Peter Jackson, the director of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and two screenwriters, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, said in a joint statement given to the website The Wrap that the images the court will analyze are of the character Smeagol, not Gollum. “He saw him as someone who had been destroyed by this evil ring.”Īs word of Ciftci’s predicament continued to spread, high-profile experts stepped into the fray to point out a crucial technicality. “He didn’t see him as irredeemably evil,” he said of Tolkien. It is a scene that is said to have upset Tolkien to the point of tears as he wrote it, Drout said. Painfully and pitifully, Smeagol almost succeeds in overcoming his evil side, but fails. “He is the most tragic character in ‘The Lord of the Rings.’”ĭrout said no one would have appreciated the existential debate over Gollum more than the author who created him. “I don’t think there’s any consensus that Gollum is evil,” Drout said in an interview. He said those experts will be assessing the most complicated character in the English writer’s complex world. Drout, an English professor at Wheaton College in Illinois who edits an annual review of Tolkien’s works, is observing the situation from America. After a judge said he did not know enough about the Tolkien creature to make an appropriate decision, five experts were ordered to conduct an investigation into Gollum’s moral character before the next phase of the trial begins in February. Ciftci lost his job with the Public Health Institution of Turkey after sharing the meme, and he faces a two-year prison sentence, the Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman reported.
Insulting the president is a crime under Turkish law. Bilgin Ciftci, is accused of sharing a meme that juxtaposes Gollum, as played by Andy Serkis (and advanced digital effects), with Recep Tayyip Erdogan in several situations: while laughing, while surprised, while eating.
More significantly, was it an insult to compare Turkey’s president to the slimy, bug-eyed creature from the films based on J.R.R. A Turkish man’s freedom may hang on a question put to a panel of “Lord of the Rings” experts: Is Gollum evil?
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