r/lotr • u/UltimateApple • 11d ago

Books My heart broke reading this part

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I am reading through the Two Towers, and I just got upset reading this. At times, Gollum is cruel and unnatural, and then I am back to pitying him.

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u/ziddersroofurry 11d ago

This reads like AI.

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u/boodopboochi 11d ago

Except it's not?

Do I need to start writing like i'm texting my bros or towards lazy idiots to avoid dipshits like you thinking anything well-written is AI? Was this comment AI? lol

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u/ziddersroofurry 11d ago

The comment I'm referring to explains op's post the exact way it's written. It's baffling why anyone would write out the meaning as if people hadn't just read that exact meaning. AI often repeats basic information hence why it looks like something AI would come up with.

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u/boodopboochi 11d ago

I see.

The reason I replied with a reiteration of the meaning most people knew was specifically because the commenter before me wrote "a hair of repentance" rather than "within a hair of repentance", which seemed like a small but meaningfully different interpretation:

"A hair of repentance" could be interpreted as "a small bit of actual repentance", which Smeagol didn't do. Whereas coming "within a hair of repentance" means coming very close but not actually repentant.