When Gollum from the Lord of the Rings series won the award for Best Virtual Performance at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards, people might have been forgiven for not expecting Frodo’s animatedly insane running mate and nemesis to turn up to collect the gong himself.

Even if anyone had foreseen such an occurrence, they definitely wouldn’t have been expecting the profanity-laden, anti-Dobbie rant that followed….