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. 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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