Doom after a struggle with Frodo raises a question mark for many readers (including me) that why Tolkien lets Gollum be Frodo’s final obstacle but not Sauron, who is supposed to be Frodo’s biggest enemy in the trilogy. That Gollum ends up expiring in the fire of Mt. Gollum models the character who is tormented between good and evil, which actually sounds interesting to me because in real life, you can be good and bad, nevertheless you cannot be both good and bad at the same time. However, there is an exception in Tolkien’s world, which lies inside character Gollum (also known as Sméagol). Saruman, Denethor, Boromir) and the characters that are aware of evil and capable of avoiding it (eg. In the idealistic world of Middle Earth, the author of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R Tolkien discusses the matter of morality by using two main types of characters in order to develop his theme that spreads throughout more than one thousand pages: the characters that are corrupted easily by evil (eg.
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