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Sméagol, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. www.wikipedia.org
Gollem, born as the hobbit Sméagol,
is a figure from the books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings from the British writer J.R.R. Tolkien.
The name 'Gollum' arose from the strange throat sounds that he produced.
He was born around the year 2440 from the third era.
His deathdate (starve-datum) was 25 March 3019.
At his death he was thus 580 years old, a remarkable lifespan (lifetide) for a hobbit.
Story
Sméagol spend his childhood in an extended family that was dominated by his grandmother (greatmother).
In the year 2463 from the third era he came by chance in the possession of the One Ring.
This was the dangerous ring of the evil genius Sauron,
who in his time lost a great battle to Isildur.
Isildur himself became captured by the ring and paid for his greed with death,
whereby the ring was lost and landed in a riverbed(ding).
Gollum went one evil day with his cousin Déagol to dive in the great river (Anduin).
Déagol found thereby a golden ring, that was claimed by Sméagol, because it was his birthday.
When he refused, Deágol was strangled by Gollum.
Sméagol was soon fully under influence of the ring,
was disowned by his family, and had to (must) take care of himself.
He retreated to underground caves (underearth grottos),
where the ring physically and mentally (ghostly) further affected him.
His lifespan through the ring also became prolonged in an unnatural way.
Nevertheless he was completely at its mercy and named the ring his 'loveling' ('my Precious').
So he lived more than 400 years under the Misty Mountains (Nebula-Burgs),
where he lived off of the eating of raw fish and young orcs.
In July 2941 came the hobbit Bilbo Baggins by chance right in the underground lair of Gollum.
Just then Gollum had lost the ring somewhere in the caves
(or better said: the ring, which seemed to have its own will, had left him).
Fumbling in the darkness Bilbo found the ring and,
unknowing what it was, he put (stuck) the object in his sack.
Then he met Gollum and after a riddle game,
with the goal that Gollum would show Bilbo the way outside, he managed to escape.
Gollum was unconsolable and finally his anger and lack of the ring won over his fear (angst) of the outside world
and the light from the sun and moon.
So it happened that he escaped the Misty Mountains to follow after Bilbo.
He came finally right to Mordor, where he had to undergo torture,
and gave up the names of Bilbo and the Shire (that he had discovered during his searching).
Then he was set free, and again (up-new) caught by the forest elves. He escaped then into Moria.
In 'The Lord of the Rings' Bilbo gives the ring, after some urging from Gandalf, freewillingly to Frodo Baggins.
Gollum comes to Moria on the track of the Fellowship, which is still unaware.
On 15 January 3019 the Maia Gandalf falls in Moria.
Gollum keeps following the surviving companions into Lórien, and then during their boat trip on the river Anduin.
As the company collapses after the death of Boromir, he follows Frodo and Sam, who finally manage to catch him.
Frodo binds him with elven rope (tow), where Gollum suffers terribly.
Moved by compassion Frodo then frees him,
and forces him to promise that he will serve as a guide on their way to Mordor.
After many anxious moments Gollum leads them into the cave of the giant spider (spin) Shelob,
in the hope that she would devour the hobbits and he would get the ring back.
After the failure of this plan he keeps following the hobbits until he eventually sees his chance
when Frodo stands at the point of throwing the ring in the Cracks of Doom (Doom-split).
At that moment Frodo becomes completely overwhelmed by the ring and puts it on his finger.
Gollum knows however to pounce and bites Frodo's ring finger off.
Dancing for joy, Gollum loses his balance and falls in the fire.
So/thus plays Gollum, as previously predicted, a crucial role in the destruction of the ring and the overthrow of the Maia Sauron.
Tragedy -- Gollum is the most tragic personage from the story of The Lord of the Rings.
Firstly because he, through the might of the Ring, becomes a murderer of his own friend.
Then his evil side, the real Gollum, overcomes his good side, Sméagol,
and he becomes an evil and disgusting creature, centuries-long alone and dangerous.
Thus he become not literally (letterly) a sort of ring wraith (ghost)
(Hobbits are remarkably tough on that point), but he became a sort of shadow.
After the loss of the ring came memories of a past life back (to him),
and while he said some things Sméagol sometimes got the upper hand and he spoke in the first person singular,
and also to others, when he usually seems to mutter to himself, often (spoke) in first person plural.
But even Sméagol cannot withstand the ring, and overcome the evil Gollum. That become his downfall (undergoing).
In this way, however, Gollum did one thing for good�