He was eventually banished from the family and their hobbit hole. His peers avoided him and he became a loner who muttered to himself and gurgled to his throat, which is why they called him “ gollum”. A crime that set his pathĪfter strangling his cousin Deagol immediately upon Deagol’s discovery of the One Ring, Smeagol returns to the village as a slave to the One Ring’s will. Mercy and forgiveness should be granted even to those that don’t deserve it – we can settle on that to be one of the most important messages learned from Tolkien’s stories. Years after his death Gollum received Frodo’s forgiveness and Gandalf’s final review of him as “not an evil creature”. He was 589 when he died and when we take into account the fact that he had the Ring for 475 years, we can easily conclude that he has spent 81% of his life obsessing over the One Ring. Gollum saw his end in the fires of Mount Doom as the last bearer of the One Ring. It was Frodo’s kindness that awakened Sméagol in Gollum however, the One Ring’s malignant influence on Gollum couldn’t be undone and in the end, he was completely consumed by the desire to possess the ring, whether in life or death.
Once Precious was lost, Gollum’s life became a quest to repossess the One Ring. Gollum was never free and for 475 years he was a prisoner of his desire. The Ring has brought Gollum an unexpectedly long life but also suffering. Sméagol’s life is a sad story”, says Gandalf to Frodo in the mines of Moria. “He hates and loves the Ring, as he hates and loves himself. On the other hand, Sméagol has shown almost no resilience at all and it was easily twisted in body and mind by the One Ring’s malignant nature. The creature was called Gollum.Įlrond pointed out in The Fellowship of the Ring that Frodo as the One Ring bearer “has shown an extraordinary resilience to its evil”. A creature that was once called Smeagol among Riverland Stoor-kind hobbits, twisted by the nature of the One Ring of which he was the fourth bearer. Tolkien.īut actually, there was a Hobbit who lived in a nasty, dirty cave.
Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole …” are famous opening lines from The Hobbit by J.R.R. “ In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit.
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