Us

One of the most common words, but not as Gollum says it!  It’s a sound-play word which communicates both Gollum’s otherness and the echoey, huge, mysterious underground cavern.  This is one of the hisses that is the same in 1937 and 1951 – and in fact they occur in exactly the same phrase in the same numbered paragraph:

  • 05.059 It’s got to ask uss a quesstion,

The 1937 version is 1937.05.059.

Updated 2016.02.11

Precious

precious

  • 05.015 and splash us, my precioussss!
  • 05.018 my preciouss?’
  • 05.022 my preciousss.
  • 05.028 my preciouss!
  • 05.028 my preciousss.
  • 05.032 my preciousss;
  • 05.036 Sss, sss, my preciouss,
  • 05.043 my preciouss – ss – ss.’
  • 05.048 my preciousss?
  • 05.059 my preciouss, yes, yess, yesss.
  • 05.066 my preciouss,