However, as Frodo was a ring-bearer he might have foreseen the passing of the Ring. Seemingly he then just waited there until he got lucky when the Fellowship of the Ring passed through. He passed through Moria, but could not make it out of the Doors of Durin. Assisted by Orcs he escaped them, and set off looking for the Shire. He was then subsequently caught by Aragorn, then interrogated by Gandalf, who placed him in the care of the Silvan Elves living in Thranduil's kingdom in Mirkwood. Gollum was then freed, as Sauron had learned all he needed from him and sensed he might draw out the Ring. He was captured on his return, taken to the dungeons of Barad-dûr and forced to reveal to Sauron under intense torture what he knew about the Ring. He made his way south to Mordor where all evil was being drawn at the time, discovering the secret Stairs of Cirith Ungol located near Minas Morgul and surviving an encounter with Shelob. Gollum eventually left the Mountains and pursued Bilbo a few years later, but the trail was cold. Gollum with Bilbo, as imagined by Darrell Sweet Search for the Ring As Bilbo ran, Gollum cried out, "Thief! Thief, Baggins! Curse it and crush it! We hates it forever!" he did not immediately follow Bilbo out of fear of being caught by the goblins, and so lingered in his cave. There, Bilbo at first thought to kill Gollum, but was overcome with pity, so he jumped over him to escape. Bilbo inadvertently stumbled across the Ring's power of invisibility as he ran, allowing him to follow Gollum to the back entrance of the cave. He suddenly realized the true answer to Bilbo's last riddle- "What have I got in my pocket?" -, breaking into a rage and then begun to chase him in the tunnels. When he went to get his "birthday present," however, he found that it was gone. After the infamous riddle-game, during which Gollum was unaware of his loss, Gollum refused to show Bilbo the promised way out and plotted to murder him. As Gandalf says later, it looks after itself, trying to get back to Sauron. Gollum had lost the Ring while squabbling with an imp goblin in the network of caves leading to the lake, though in fact it is more proper to say that the Ring abandoned Gollum, for it was known to have a will of its own. In July, TA 2941, during the Quest of Erebor, the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins stumbled upon the dark lake on which he lived and found Gollum's Ring. Tolkien put it, "through not having anyone else to speak to") and had a love/hate relationship, mirroring Gollum's love and hatred for the Ring and for himself. The two personalities often quarreled when he talked to himself (as J.R.R. Years later, Samwise Gamgee would name the good personality "Slinker" (for his fawning, eager-to-please demeanor), and the bad personality "Stinker". He found Hobbit and Elven food repulsive.ĭuring his centuries under the Ring's influence, he developed a sort of dissociative identity disorder: Sméagol, his "good" personality, still vaguely remembered things like friendship and love, while Gollum, his "bad" and prevailing personality, was a slave to the Ring and would kill anyone who tried to take it. Gollum even made a song about raw fish, which is "The rocks and stones! They're like old bones all bare of meat!" that he used as a riddle to Bilbo, and would much later sing to Frodo Baggins in a longer version. He lived in the Misty Mountains for over four hundred years, living on raw blind fish (which he caught from his small boat), bats, and occasionally, stray Orcs. Gollum seeing light for the first time after his transformation, by Frédéric Bennett He called it his "Precious" or his "birthday-present," the latter as a replacement in his mind for killing Déagol. The Ring's malignant influence twisted his Hobbit body, as well as his mind, and prolonged his life far beyond its natural limits. Sméagol was quickly corrupted further by the Ring and banished by his people turned by his grandmother out of her hole, he was forced to find a home in a cave in the Misty Mountains in around TA 2470. When Déagol refused, Sméagol promptly flew into a rage and fought with Déagol over the Ring, choking him to death and taking the Ring as his own. Almost immediately, Sméagol fell to the power of the Ring, demanding it as a birthday present. It was there that Déagol found a gold Ring in the water, after being pulled out of their boat by a large fish. Déagol was his cousin, and on Sméagol's birthday, they went fishing in the Gladden Fields. Around the year 2463, Sméagol became the fourth Bearer of the One Ring, after Sauron, Isildur, and Déagol. Originally a Stoorish hobbit, born in TA 2430, Sméagol spent the early years of his life living with his extended family under a Matriarch, his grandmother.
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