Not the character, of course – Andy Serkis did a wonderful job bringing Tolkien’s creepiest creature to life and firmly cemented his legacy as The CGI Character Guy. I’m referring to the somewhat misguided Lord of the Rings: Gollum video game, which promises to turn Gollum into a triple-A hero.
I’m left with only one question, really: Why? Who was clamoring for the opportunity to eat raw fish and obsess over rings for thirty hours? There are ten million more interesting stories and characters in Middle-earth, and we’ve landed on this? It’d be hard to make Gollum interesting with even
