Gollum - Wikipedia
WEBGollum was introduced in The Hobbit as "a small, slimy creature" who lived on a small island in an underground lake at the roots of the Misty Mountains. He survived on cave fish, which he caught from a small boat, and small goblins who strayed too far from the stronghold of the Great Goblin.
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WEBGollum, originally named Sméagol (or Trahald), was a Stoor, one of the three early Hobbit-types in the Third Age. His given name of Sméagol should be pronounced as smay-ah-gol. By possessing the One Ring , his life extended centuries beyond his nature, and he became deformed and twisted in body and mind by the corruption of the Ring.
What Kind Of Creature Was Gollum? Sméagol's Lord Of The Rings …
WEBMar 7, 2024 · Sméagol, later known as Gollum, was a Stoor, an early type of Hobbit, with a tragic history involving murder and obsession. Gollum lived for over 500 years under the influence of the One Ring, developing two distinct personalities: Slinker and Stinker.
Gollum Character Analysis in The Hobbit | SparkNotes
WEBGollum serves as the book’s most significant indication of a much vaster and more dangerous world than what Bilbo would ever have encountered in the Shire. The existence of trolls, goblins, spiders, elves, dwarves, and dragons are known, in theory, to Bilbo, but Gollum offers a far more insidious, less definable danger than what Bilbo has so ...
Gollum - Tolkien Gateway
WEBJul 8, 2024 · Gollum, also known as Sméagol, was a creature (originally a Stoorish Hobbit) who bore the One Ring. He lived in the Misty Mountains for most of his life. In T.A. 2941 he lost the Ring to Bilbo Baggins. For the rest of his life he sought to recover his "precious" "birthday present".
Gollum's Entire Backstory Explained - Looper
WEBFeb 10, 2022 · Gollum's hobbit roots. The Grey Wizard has some pretty detailed hypotheses when it comes to figuring out Gollum's heritage. In the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf...
Gollum | fictional character | Britannica
WEBSep 23, 2024 · Gollum, fictional character in J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). Gollum is a vaguely reptilian creature who is obsessed with the ring that is the focus of much of the action of the books.
The Hobbit: Gollum Quotes - SparkNotes
WEBGollum may now be slimy, vicious, and crazed, but perhaps he was not always this way—perhaps he was once as normal and friendly as Bilbo. Such a drastic loss of soul is painful to imagine. Suddenly Gollum sat down and began to weep, a whistling and gurgling sound horrible to listen to.
Gollum - CliffsNotes
WEBGollum is so alone that he speaks only to himself, even on the rare occasions when he finds himself with someone else, as he does with Bilbo in Chapter 5. He speaks to others in the third person, apparently unable to say "you," and he calls himself "my precious" out of a perverted kind of self-love.
TolkienWiki: Gollum
WEBFeb 3, 2004 · Gollum. Originally Sméagol, a Hobbit of the Stoor branch, residing in the GladdenFields, killed Déagol (ca. ThA 2463) when the latter refused to give Sméagol the ring he had just found in the river as a "Birthday Present".