It would be a luxury to chow down on the meaty flesh of a Hobbit. His attitude towards Bilbo is of contempt: he wishes to eat him only because he needs something and raw fish are merely his everyday meals. He spent most of his time talking to himself and his precious, but once Bilbo came along, Gollum was almost eager to speak to another Hobbit. He sought shelter in the Misty Mountains and stayed there by himself for hundreds of years. His grandmother kicked him out of their Hobbit hole and his community banished him for murdering one of their own. He strangled his cousin and took the Ring, but his old life as a Hobbit was over. When Sméagol caught sight of the Ring, he knew that he had to have it for himself. On his birthday on year, he went fishing with his cousin Déagol, who found the ring after falling into the pond. His life as a Hobbit was one of royalty, as he was born into a Matriarch in the Third Age, and spent the first 100 years of his life in mortal bliss and with the inevitable peace of Hobbit life. Gollum is actually quite talkative and comfortable around people, but his behavior is so antisocial and violent that he could never truly be a well-assimilated citizen of Middle-earth. The intriguing aspect of the story is that Tolkien never meant for the Ring to be Gollum’s obsession, but the importance of the Ring grew even within Tolkien’s mind as his books progressed, and suddenly Gollum’s possession of the Ring became much more monumental to the story. Even after his entire life had been destroyed by the Ring and he lived in the mountains in the utter blackness, Gollum was furious when the Ring finally passed into Bilbo’s possession. Sméagol longed for the Ring out of pure human desire, but eventually dissolved into a mutated half-life that survived on slimy fish and goblin-flesh. Ironically, it did not start out this way. However, he desires the Ring to accomplish these goals and believes that he cannot survive without it. Gollum’s needs are simple: he wants fresh fish and a safe place to hide from the goblins whenever he can. His demise was deserved, and as the final bearer of the Ring, their collective death resolved the climax of the series. Gollum had no one to blame but himself for immoral actions, and gave in to his desires for the Ring rather than reject them as several other characters have managed to do.
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Frodo forgives Gollum at the end of the series because he believes that Gollum was not entirely at fault for what he did, that it was the power of the Ring that forced him into this destructive madness. Though Hobbits do not normally live nearly 600 years, his consumption of the Ring and his descent into the mountain with its unnatural power allowed him to survive until 3019, when he fell to his death, fittingly with his precious Ring, into the fires of Mount Doom. Born in TA 2430, Gollum’s original name was Sméagol, descended from one of the earliest Hobbit races, the Stoors.
He is acknowledged by many of the characters in Tolkien’s The Hobbit and especially, The Lord of the Rings, and even more are vaguely aware of his presence, but he creeps across Middle-earth in secret, perpetually hunting in the darkness for his precious. Gollum is a forgotten and broken tangle of destructive behavior.
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