In July, TA 2941, during the Quest of Erebor, the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins stumbles upon the subterranean lake in which Gollum lives and finds the Ring, which Gollum had lost while hunting an imp goblin in the network of caves leading to the lake. Gollum in his cave as he meets Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The two personalities often quarrel when he talks to himself (as Tolkien put it, "through not having anyone else to speak to") and have a love/hate relationship, mirroring Gollum's love and hatred of the Ring and of himself. Years later, Samwise Gamgee names the good personality "Slinker" (for his fawning, eager-to-please demeanor), and the bad personality "Stinker" (for obvious reasons). In later years, he finds Hobbit and Elven food repulsive.ĭuring his centuries under the Ring's influence, he develops a sort of dissociative identity disorder: Sméagol, his "good" personality, still vaguely remembers things like friendship and love, while Gollum, his "bad" personality, is a slave to the Ring willing to kill anyone who tries to take it. Gollum lived under the Misty Mountains for nearly 500 years, eating raw blind fish (which he catches in his small rowboat) and Goblins when he can get them. Smeagol being transformed into Gollum by the Ring. Gollum calls the Ring his "Precious" or his "Birthday Present", the latter as a justification for killing Déagol. The Ring's malignant influence twists his Hobbit body and mind and prolongs his life far beyond its natural limits he lives in his cave for 500 years while the Ring bides its time, waiting for Sauron to return. He wanders for a few years, degenerating further as the Ring's hold on him grows until he makes a new home in a cave in the Misty Mountains. Finally, his grandmother disowns him and throws him out of her home. The Ring corrupts his body and mind, forcing him to make a disgusting swallowing noise in his throat, for which his relatives nickname him "Gollum". Sméagol uses the Ring for thieving and antagonizing his relatives. Sméagol strangles Déagol and claims the Ring as his own, his "precious". Sméagol is immediately ensnared by the Ring and demands it as his "birthday present", but Déagol refuses. After being pulled into the water by a large fish, Déagol finds the Ring underwater and emerges from the river with his prize. The latter is his cousin, and on Sméagol's birthday, they go fishing in the Gladden Fields north of the mountains. In the year TA 2463, on his 33rd birthday, Sméagol becomes the fourth Bearer of the One Ring, after Sauron, Isildur, and Déagol. He was born circa the year 2430 of the Third Age. Originally a Stoor Hobbit, Sméagol spends the early years of his life with his extended family under a Matriarch, his grandmother. Smeagol before he was corrupted by the Ring. ~ Gandalf explaining Gollum's tragedy to Frodo Yes, Sméagol he was once called… before the Ring found him - before it drove him mad. In the 2003 Sierra Entertainment video game, he was voiced by Daran Norris.īiography Early life and acquiring the Ring “ In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of Lord of the Rings, he was voiced by the late Peter Woodthorpe.
In Rankin/Bass' animated adaptations of The Hobbit and Return of the King, he was voiced by the late "Brother" Theodore Gottlieb. Grin in Stormbreaker, Spike in Flushed Away, Kertasnikir in Netflix's Hilda, Capricorn in Inkheart, Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Supreme Leader Snoke in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. In Sir Peter Jackson's adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, he was portrayed in motion capture by Andy Serkis, who also played Mr. His all-consuming need for the Ring eventually leads him to betray Frodo and unintentionally destroy the Ring and himself. After losing the Ring to Bilbo Baggins, he hunts it for decades, eventually becoming part of the quest to destroy it when he is tamed by Bilbo's nephew Frodo. He is a former Hobbit who is corrupted and transformed into a slimy, monstrous creature by the One Ring, which he calls "my precious". He is set to return in the 2022 videogame The Lord of the Rings: Gollum as the titular main protagonist. He is a minor antagonist in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, a major anti-hero in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the secondary antagonist of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and a supporting antagonist in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Gollum is one of the two secondary antagonists in the novel The Lord of the Rings (alongside Saruman), and a supporting antagonist in the novel, The Hobbit. Gollum, originally known as Sméagol or Trahald, is a creature of Hobbit origin and a major antagonist in J.R.R.
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