![]() Gollum referred to the Ring as "my precious" or "precious", and it extended his life far beyond natural limits. Sméagol obtained the Ring by murdering his relative Déagol, who found it in the River Anduin. In The Lord of the Rings it is stated that he was originally known as Sméagol, corrupted by the One Ring, and later named Gollum after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat". Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit of the River-folk who lived near the Gladden Fields. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became important in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. Escaping from Gollum's clutches was the One Ring's only hope of returning to its true master.Gollum is a fictional character in J. Gollum possessed neither the physical strength nor the sociopolitical power to bolster Sauron's forces. Even if Sauron had been able to bend Gollum to his will through the One Ring, it would have availed the Dark Lord little. When Gollum contemplated what he would do with the One Ring's power in The Two Towers, his only thoughts were of feasting on copious amounts of fish. Further, unlike many other characters in The Lord of the Rings, Gollum did not have high ambitions that the One Ring could prey upon this made him more difficult to manipulate. He often encountered Orcs in his caves, but he killed them too quickly for them to either apprehend him or send word to Sauron. His existence was so completely solitary that the odds of it coming into contact with a servant of Sauron were low. The change that Jackson's film made to the One Ring's discovery also emphasized its seeming consciousness, as it bounced directly towards Bilbo, who would then bring it out of the cave in which Gollum had trapped it for centuries. ![]() For this reason, it made its way from Gollum to Bilbo. The One Ring's goal was to return to Sauron, so it sought escape from bearers who would not facilitate that end. For example, in "The Shadow of the Past," Gandalf said that it "betrayed" Isildur by slipping off his finger in the Gladden River. In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien often treated the One Ring like a sentient being who could make decisions. The One Ring had a will of its own - or, more accurately, its will was an extension of Sauron's. He instead kept it on his body at all times, and Bilbo only found it because it fell out of his loincloth while he battled an Orc. Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey emphasized Gollum's obsession with the One Ring by removing the aspect of him hiding it in a hole. Though neither Gollum nor Bilbo knew it, this feeling was the beginning of the transformation into a formless wraith, much like the Nazgûl. In the chapter "Riddles in the Dark" from The Hobbit, Tolkien explained, "Gollum used to wear it at first, till it tired him and then he kept it in a pouch next his skin, till it galled him and now usually he hid it in a hole in the rock on his island." In The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo compared the One Ring's detrimental effects to butter being spread too thin. The One Ring took a physical and mental toll on its bearer. ![]()
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