Only fear and Sauron’s tortures made Smeagol say something close to the truth.

His constant telling of lies became one of his main qualities, which he wouldn’t part with throughout the story. Possessing the Ring, it corrupted him in such a way that Smeagol even became an outsider and, hating the sun and its warmth ever more, took refuge in a cave under the Misty Mountains. But he never aimed to be first at anything, “his head and his eyes were downward”. Smeagol came from a big and well-off family, where grandmother, strict and faithful to old customs, was a matriarch. However he called the Ring his birthday present and said it came from his grandmother, who had lots of beautiful things of that kind. The Ring, possessed much greater powers and influences over the two hobbits, unlike any common copper or tungsten rings would. But the ring perniciously worked on the hobbit’s consciousness and Smeagol even strangled his friend in order to get the Ring. No one suspected its destructive force at that time. Once Smeagol with his friend Deagol went fishing and they fished the One Ring out of the Anduin. His actual name was Smeagol, a translation of his Westron name, which means “burrow-deep”. Before the Ring came into his possession, Gollum was a hobbit of the tribe of the Stoors, who lived near the Gladden Fields. Gollum’s life can be divided into several periods, although gathered information is not that reliable. Such noises could express practically anything: excitement and delight, sadness and fury, and other feelings.

He got his nickname from a clicking sound he made from time to time with his throat which sounded like “gollum”. Gollum is the most mysterious and contradictory character in the fantasy adventure “The Lord of the Rings”.

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