Average Jane's Early Morning Song Lyric Critique

As I was waking up this morning, my brain reminded me of some song lyrics that have always bugged me. 

The song in question: Ramble On by Led Zeppelin. You can find the whole list of lyrics here, but to set the scene, our protagonist  is wandering across J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth trying to find a particular woman, described as “the queen of all my dreams.”

Our hippie hero, and let’s just assume he’s Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, meets a different woman in his travels and here’s what happens:

T’was in the darkest depths of Mordor
I met a girl so fair
But Gollum, and the evil one
Crept up and slipped away with her
Her, her, yeah
Ain’t nothing I can do, no
I guess I’ll keep on rambling

I suppose the “evil one” is Sauron and I get why it might be a fool’s errand to challenge him. But I think you could at least try to take on Gollum. He’s a tiny, shriveled, corrupted Hobbit and you’re from the race of Men, so “slipped away” or not, I’d think you’d have a fighting chance to catch up and lend a hand.

But no, you just shrugged and moved on. Thanks for nothing, Robert. 

Comments

[Keith Sader]

Gollum had the One Ring, so he could easily have slipped away via invisibility and the mind controlling power of the One Ring.

#nerdsknow

[Average Jane]

We don't know the exact timeline, though. It could have been after Gollum lost the ring.