“Long Black Veil” by Jennifer Finney Boylan (post 8): Judith (Quentin/Judith) and her husband have a dog named “Gollum,” a multiple personality allusion

Judith and her husband Jake have a dog named “Gollum” (1, p. 72).

Sméagol/Gollum is the character with two names in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (search “Tolkien”). He often speaks of himself in the third person or as “we,” and clearly has a split personality (2).

1. Jennifer Finney Boylan. Long Black Veil. New York, Crown, 2017.

2. Wikipedia. “Gollum.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum