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 | | Gollum thought he would be able to find the Ring among Frodo's clothes and bones when Shelob was finished with him, and then he would be able to take his revenge on Shelob and on everyone else. | | | Gollum did not understand that Frodo was trying to save him; he believed that Frodo had betrayed him. | | | Gollum begged for mercy and Frodo was moved by pity and spared the creature's life. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Gollum |
| | Gollum visited the great spider Shelob, child of Ungoliant, because he was planning to betray the Hobbits to her and then get the Ring for himself. | | | Had Gollum not lived to play this final part, there would have been a good chance that Sauron would have regained the Ring, as he knew where Frodo was as soon as he put the Ring on. | | | Just as Frodo warned him, Gollum's betrayal of his oath ultimately led to his undoing, for Frodo and Sam escaped from Shelob's lair and came against all odds to the volcano of Orodruin or Mount Doom. |
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| | Gollum tracked Frodo all the way to Mount Doom and siezed the ring, but too eager to gloat on his prize, he stepped too far, and fell into the Crack of Doom with the ring, thus ending the threat of Sauron's dominion forever. | | | Cast out from among his own people (who named him "Gollum" when he took to muttering and gurgling in his throat), he hid in the orc mines beneath the Misty Mountains. | | | At once corrupted by its evil magic, Smeagol murdered his friend Deagol and took the ring for himself. |
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http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/reviews/ut/gollum/gollum.shtml
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| | Gollum |
| | Gollum was terribly afraid of everything and his tale was incoherent, “together with much snivelling and snarling”. | | | Here what Gandalf says about Gollum: “Gollum is a liar, and you have to sift his words”. | | | Being a hobbit, Gollum got a kind of absolute power which entirely seized his thoughts. |
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http://www.lord-of-the-rings.org/books/gollum.html
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| | The Lord of the Rings Online TCG: The Gollum Culture |
| | Gollum's cryptic rhyming and dualistic personality make him one of the most compelling characters in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. | | | His common version brings him forth as a Nasty Treacherous Creature, presenting the ability to exert a companion in the regroup phase, simply by discarding him. | | | Gandalf and Elrond tell of the unspeakable horrors that could result in wielding the total power of the One Ring, but Gollum gives us a firsthand look at the peril that Frodo himself faces. |
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http://lotronline.decipher.com/cultures/gollum
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| | Lord of the Rings |
| | Though once a Hobbit, Gollum’s 500 years in possession of the Ring has deformed his body and warped his mind. | | | But because he shares the quality of Ringbearer with Frodo, the Hobbit coaxes out of him the story of what Gollum once was – a “Stoor Hobbit” named Smeagol who gained possession of The Ring through an act of violence. | | | “When Frodo meets Gollum, Frodo sees a lot of himself in the creature,” notes Andy, who provides the voice, the movement, and, through his work with WETA Digital, the essence of Gollum. |
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http://www.serkis.com/cinlotr.htm
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| | SparkNotes: The Lord of the Rings: Analysis of Major Characters |
| | Gollum was once a good hobbit named Sméagol, and this past identity comes to represent Gollum’s good side, the part of him that loves and wants to help his “master,” Frodo. | | | Instead, Gollum is pure servility, and this characteristic unites both his good and dark sides and allows him to function as a guide for Frodo. | | | At the last minute, Frodo is overcome by the ring and gives in to its power, and only in a final struggle with Gollum is the ring torn away from him. |
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http://www.sparknotes.com/film/lordoftherings/canalysis.html
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| | We Wants It |
| | You may think Gollum is an ugly little wretched creature, but there's more to him than meets the eye. | | | He took to thieving, and going about muttering to himself, and gurgling in his throat. | | | His grandmother, desiring peace, expelled him from the family and turned him out of her hole. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/freak2/gollum
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| | Jennifer's Annotated Hobbit: Gollum |
| | The 'authorities' agree that after Gollum accepted the question and tried to guess the answer he should have kept his part of the bargain and given Bilbo his reward. | | | Sauron, the Dark Lord whom Gandalf left the company to fight, used Gollum's lust for the ring nearly to the destruction of Middle Earth in the sequel to The Hobbit called The Lord of the Rings. | | | Yes, the original 1937 version is quite different in describing Gollum and relating how Bilbo gained possession of the ring. |
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http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/jennifer.htm
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| | CBBC Newsround HOTSEAT Andy Serkis - Gollum |
| | And he describes Gollum as having a chink of light in his soul that is kind of redeemable or saveable. | | | So Gollum, for me, is a character who should be pitied and also hated. | | | As Gandalf says to Frodo in the first film and in the book - be careful who you deal out judgement to. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/chat/hotseat/newsid_2853000/2853041.stm
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| | Gollum's Themes |
| | The Pity of Gollum theme does form the basis for Gollum’s Song, though more through a certain vein of harmony than direct melodic pieces. | | | The Pity theme appears through the majority of the Gollum scenes in TT, though varied and and twisted into all sorts of shapes. | | | This seemed a bit perplexing but all was resolved when the Extended Edition of TTT was released. |
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http://www.geocities.com/magpie930/THEMES/THgollums_themes.htm
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| | JS Online: Gollum slinks into quest |
| | But it could be argued that the piteous monstrosity Gollum, with his monkey-like physicality and cat-like yowling, steals the show. | | | It was like "a sense memory of a traumatic incident" that scarred him, Serkis said. | | | "So we have a version of all those scenes where you can see the computer-generated Gollum and, because he's skinny, behind him you can see Andy in the leotard doing all the same movements. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/movies/dec02/104014.asp
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| | Jedi Council Forums - Yoda vs. Gollum |
| | And for the anti-CGI crowd, the argument could be made that even Gollum didn't absolutely need to be CGI (WETA is often fond of saying that they only use effects when they are absolutely necessary. | | | The acting was nothing short of magnificent for gollum> I was talking strictly cgi, and I still think most of the cgi characters in AOTC look better than gollum. | | | I've heard this arguemtn before, however there the low light was not done to hide poor FX, it is how the scenes exist, even in the book, and personally I think the PT films could use more low light, its adds heaps to the atmsophere. |
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http://boards.theforce.net/Attack_of_the_Clones/b10001/10954093/p2
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| | USATODAY.com - Actor gives voice and body to vile Gollum |
| | Gollum, the hobbit-turned-tortured-creature after being corrupted by the evil ring that Frodo the hero hobbit (Elijah Wood) now carries, briefly slithered on screen in last year's The Fellowship of the Ring. | | | Serkis has yet to do the motion capture for The Return of the King, which is due next December. | | | Actor gives voice — and body — to vile Gollum |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2002-12-17-gollum_x.htm
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| | Meghan Clyne on Gollum on National Review Online |
| | Serkis is at the Union Square Barnes and Noble to sign copies of his new book, appropriately titled Gollum. | | | Then, to the delight of all, he acts out a scene — a notorious dialogue from the Two Towers, in which good Sméagol manages, if ever so briefly, to subdue the darker of his two personalities. | | | He explains why he wrote Gollum, and reads a passage. |
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| | Specialty Tour - From Sméagol to Gollum |
| | Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. | | | It had slipped from Isildur's hand and betrayed him; then when a chance came it caught poor Déagol, and he was murdered; and after that Gollum, and it had devoured him. | | | So now, when its master was awake once more and sending out his dark thought from Mirkwood, it abandoned Gollum. |
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http://fan.theonering.net/middleearthtours/specialtygollum.html
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| | Encyclopedia of Arda: Gollum |
| | Gollum first appears in the Tale of Years in 'about' 2463, when he murders his friend D& and steals the Ring. | | | Coming under its power, he hid away in the Misty Mountains, and was drawn into the events at the end of the Third Age when he encountered Bilbo Baggins, who took the Ring from him. | | | Gollum's people split from the other Stoors in the fifteenth century of the Third Age, when troubled times in Eriador led them to migrate back eastwards across the Misty Mountains, and settle on the banks of the Gladden River. |
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| | Sideshow Collectibles.com - The Lord of the Rings - 3/4 Scale Gollum Bust |
| | Tortured and wretched by the lure of the One Ring, Gollum is a withered, piteous creature. | | | The bust is made out of heavyweight polystone and adorned with a Gollum nameplate, the Lord of the Rings logo and the hand-numbered edition size. | | | Driven mad and twisted by his loss of the Ring decades ago, he is compelled to haunt Middle-earth, searching everywhere for the only thing in the world he ever craved for, his "precious." |
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http://www.sideshowtoy.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=lotre&item=9448&type=store
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| | The man who wasn't there - smh.com.au |
| | Jackson's commentary says: "The character of Gollum is a completely digital creature, but I was determined that I wanted an actor to actually create the character... | | | There's no doubt he's the most intriguing little freak since ET, and a nearly perfect representation of the character described by J.R.R. Tolkien in the book of The Two Towers. | | | Baker has been in all five Star Wars movies - he's the dwarf inside the whistling robot R2-D2 (and his colleague Anthony Daniels, who was the man inside C-3PO, appears at No. 19). |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/03/1041566220931.html
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| | cassieclaire: Am going to hell, shipped express post. :D |
| | I have not bothered with Gollum's weird speech because it does not fit with the VSD style. | | | Complaints about lack of canon accuracy can be sent to The Management. | | | How on earth do you keep doing this? |
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| | Gollum |
| | urking by a stagnant mere, peering in the water as the dark eve fell, I caught him, Gollum. | | | You can really see the lost humanity (hobbitity?) in him; and you begin to understand how first Bilbo, then Frodo, then Sam, could find pity enough to spare his life. | | | He would cackle with laughter and caper, if any jest was made, or even if Frodo spoke kindly to him, and weep if Frodo rebuked him. |
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| | OAFE - Gollum review |
| | Tortured and wrought wretched by the lure of the One Ring, Gollum is a withered, piteous creature. | | | Andy Serkis may not have appeared onscreen, but it was his movements and his voice that gave Gollum life, not simply an animator moving a mouse. | | | Gollum's huge feet (almost an inch long each) give him a big stable base so he won't fall over. |
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| | Gollum's WWW Homepage! |
| | Gollum was the name of the most slimy, sticky selfish and terribly antisocial creature in the whole Lord of the Rings,...and the name was decided as a matter of fact. | | | Well, the eternal goal was to make a good demo, and we tried to do something to The Gathering 1993, but the demo ("Invisible") was put together after deadline, so the result was thereafter. | | | After The Gathering 1993, Gollum was expanded with an Amiga Section but that turned out to have no meaning at all. |
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http://hjem.no/espen/gollum
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| | USATODAY.com - Actor Serkis talks about playing Gollum |
| | After discovering the One Ring, the evil object transforms him into a withered, hissing wretch, and he spends years searching for it after the hobbit Bilbo Baggins takes it from his lair. | | | The resemblance is strange for him, too; Serkis said he sees his father in Gollum, and his 3-year-old son in Gollum's eager-to-please alter-ego, Smeagol. | | | In Tolkein's mythology, Gollum was once a Hobbit-like creature named Smeagol. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2004-01-20-serkis-gollum_x.htm
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| | Lord of the Rings Gollum |
| | The evil power of the ring changed Smeagol and he became a wretched creature living in dark places. | | | Gollum lost his ring and it was found by Bilbo who he encountered in the caverns of the orcs. | | | In his reunion with his preciousss he misstepped and fell into the Cracks of Doom thus destroying himself and his preciousss. |
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http://www.lordotrings.com/tour/gollum.asp
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| | GOLLUM |
| | The Gollum have a meeting in the Marseille underground every ten years where they discuss their future actions. | | | Clan Gollum is really a version of Clan Toreador. | | | They are the ones who spy on the Nosferatu and know where they live. |
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http://www.kopalnia.rpg.pl/mirror/adashiel/archive/gollum.html
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| | MilkandCookies - Gollum Rap |
| | I didn't understand what the hell he was saying, but I like it! | | | Gollum going a bit nutty with one of his orc buddies. | | | Related: Gangsta Life, Gollum, Lord of the Rings |
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http://www.milkandcookies.com/article/2021
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| | CNN.com - The importance of being Gollum - Jan. 21, 2004 |
| | Andy Serkis tells of 'LotR' experience in book | | | Serkis has now chronicled his experience in a new book, "Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic" (Houghton Mifflin). | | | Initially, Gollum appears to be the dark side of Smeagol, in the movie a wealthy hobbit scion who kills his cousin for the Ring and is consumed by the Ring's power. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/20/serkis.gollum
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| | Premiere Magazine: The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time |
| | Much credit goes to Serkis, whose reptilian body movements and hilariously pathetic voice infused the miserable miscreant with life—but props also to Jackson and his computer whizzes, who made us eager to watch Gollum’s every move and gasp at his deathly dance, which, finally, decides the fate of Middle-earth. | | | Defining Moment: When we first see Gollum in all his twisted, tortured glory, in 2002’s The Two Towers, he is wrestling with himself over whether to betray the hobbits. | | | We loved him on the page: The slithering, tragicomical Gollum is one of the great creations of fantasy novelist J.R.R. Tolkien. |
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http://www.premiere.com/article.asp?section_id=6&article_id=1539&page_number=11
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| | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY |
| | GUIDED BY VOICES The Tolkien trilogy paints Gollum as an inhumanly skinny creature with eyes and teeth that would be nearly impossible to replicate with makeup and prosthetics. | | | (The actor describes the inflection as a cross between an involuntary Tourette's spasm and a cat coughing up a hairball.) In fact, Gollum's voice also defined his appearance. | | | So even though Andy Serkis doesn't actually appear in the ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy, the 38-year-old British actor is still generating buzz as the human model for the CG-eye-popping character Gollum. |
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http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,402907~1~0~whylotrsgollumseems,00.html
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| | gollum gollum Free discussion |
| | years Gollum spent in the misty mountains: "He always spoke to himself | | | Gollum, the outsider, who had a more violent personality. | | | separated his personality and is now Gollum as well. |
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http://qaix.com/coldfusion/319-411-gollum-gollum-read.shtml
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| | Middle-earth Quiz Book |
| | Sméagol; because he muttered and gurgled in his throat. | | | He said his grandmother gave it to him and that she had lots like it. | | | While Gollum still lived with his family what did he use the Ring for? |
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http://tolkien.scoon.com/gollum.htm
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| | Boing Boing: How nuts is Gollum? |
| | Smeagol has separated his personality and is now Gollum as well. | | | He uses neologisms such as "triksy" and "hobbitses." Gollum has nihilistic thoughts, believing that he is a murderer, liar, and thief; although there is some basis in fact for this and he shows little guilt or remorse. | | | Gollum has difficulty controlling his thoughts and actions, exacerbated by prolonged contact with the ring. |
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http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/19/how_nuts_is_gollum.html
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| | Encyclopedia of Arda: Sauron |
| | This is a reference to Isildur's cutting the Ring from his hand at the end of the Second Age, but Gollum is speaking at the end of the Third. | | | Though Sauron had built himself a new form since his defeat, he could not, it seems, recreate his lost finger. | | | We see this again in The Lord of the Rings; Gollum says (in IV 3 The Black Gate is Closed) 'He has only four [fingers] on the Black Hand'. |
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http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/s/sauron.html
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| | TheOneRing.net™ Scrapbook Gollum's MTV Acceptance Speech |
| | This image is not part of a group. | | | Gollum says his 'thankyous' to the MTV crowd in a pre-taped acceptance speech. | | | For related images, see also the Awards Ceremonies, Andy Serkis and Gollum sections. |
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http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/view/6856
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| | CGSociety - The VFX of 'Return of the King' |
| | Gollum’s appearance changes throughout Return of the King: “We plotted a deliberate course where we would start off Gollum looking pretty much like he did at the end of The Two Towers. | | | Building on the groundbreaking work in The Two Towers of an entirely believable digital actor, Gollum becomes an even more dimensional character in Return of the King. | | | As we first see them entering Mordor, Gollum looks similar to the way he did in The Two Towers. |
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http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=1883&page=7
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| | Apple - Shake - Lord of the Rings |
| | Due to the size differences between Serkis and the CG character, motion-capture was reserved for sequences where Gollum is in an environment where there are no other scale references,” says Nugent. | | | Therefore, we had compositors working with the lighting, shader and texture teams for months before they felt they had a Gollum that was as lifelike as possible, really worthy of a final version,” Nugent says. | | | Many of the sequences, even though they may have been completed at a later time, were started quite early in order to ‘dial-in’ the look of character. |
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http://www.apple.com/shake/stories/lotr2/index2.html
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| | Gollum 2004 |
| | Unlike the other contenders for the presidency, Gollum has real experience of back-stabbing, treachery and murder by stealth, experience which will be invaluable in the fast-moving world of international politics. | | | With your vote, ultimate power can be his. | | | From his fetid pond in the depths of a lightless cave, Gollum heard and shuffled blinking into the day. |
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| | Salon Directory |
| | According to "Rings" director Peter Jackson, the most significant difference between Serkis' Gollum and the computer-generated actors that precede him is Serkis himself. | | | Prior to "The Two Towers," all digital characters were developed mainly in postproduction: designed, refined and then inserted into completed sequences alongside actors who had delivered their lines to on-set substitutes constructed from broomsticks, tennis balls and the like. | | | [Andy] would decide how Gollum would move, how he would act, what emotion he would have, what pauses he would put where, what weight he'd put into a particular scene -- just as any actor, like Elijah and Sean, would be doing for their characters." |
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http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/02/18/gollum/index.html
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| | Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser |
| | The Gollum Homepage is now in english available. | | | To show my thanks, I have put together a list of all those who have contributed to the translations of this project. | | | The following example demonstrates the call of variables and how to call Gollum directly. |
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| | Andy Serkis |
| | Based the voice of Gollum on the sounds his cats made while coughing up... |
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| | Gollum |
| | Gollum is a character in the Middle-Earth universe. | | | It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nasty little pocketses? | | | If you enjoyed taking this survey and wish to help advertise it and your results, you can use the code below on your site. |
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http://www.tk421.net/character/gollum.html
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| | Gollum 100% - vitor azevedo.com |
| | Gollum 1.1 is a theme for Wordpress version 1.2. | | | A newer version of the theme, made for Wordpress 1.5 will arrive in July 2005. | | | If you use this style, hate it, love it or just stolen some code from it send an email to the author (me!). |
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| | Council of Elrond :: LotR News and Information |
| | When asked why he had decided to support Gollum in his candidacy, Lucas replied, “I was going to back Yoda but
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| | The RenderMan Academy - Subsurface Scattering Using Depth Maps |
| | Gollum had a subsurface term mixed with a straight lambertian term and 4 specular terms, one of which was a LaFortune which is essentially 3 specular calls. | | | It's how Ken McGaugh and I wrote the Gollum skin shader. | | | My advice is don't get too caught up in the science of it. |
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http://www.rendermanacademy.com/docs/SSS_depthmaps.htm
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| | The Making of Gollum |
| | He and his team actually had an early working prototype of Gollum created when actor Andy Serkis was cast to do the voice of Gollum. | | | Raitt gave a presentation detailing the facial animation system he built in order to bring much of Andy Serkis' outstanding performance into the Gollum character, and give him his unique look. | | | Raitt moved to New Zealand to take on this assignment, and spent four years bringing Gollum into the second and third films in the LOTR trilogy. |
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1554342,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
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| | Amazon.com: Return Of The King 6"" Figure Iii: Gollum With Precious Phrase: Toys & Games |
| | This Gollum figurine has an incredible likeness you wouldn't believe! | | | He doesn't come with any accesories, though, so that kinda makes him a little less fun. | | | This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009OX2W/cooltoyworld-20?dev-t=D68HUNXKLHS4J&camp=2025&link_code=xm2
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