Dates
Race
Division
Descended from the same stock as the Stoors2
Settlements
Raised in a settlement by the Gladden River, Gollum later concealed himself beneath Goblin-town for centuries before emerging to seek his lost ' Precious'
Pronunciation
go'llum
Meaning
Said to derive from the guttural swallowing noises this creature habitually made
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Gollum
Wretched slave to the One Ring
Originally a creature of Hobbit-kind, who lived under the influence of the One Ring. When his friend Déagol found the Ring in the river Anduin (where Isildur had lost it more than two millennia before) Gollum murdered Déagol and stole the Ring. Coming under its power, he hid away in the Misty Mountains, and was drawn into the events at the end of the Third Age when he encountered Bilbo Baggins and lost his Magic Ring.
Notes
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Gollum first appears in the Tale of Years in 'about' III 2463, when he murders his friend Déagol and steals the Ring. The birthdate of III 2440 given here is an estimate based on the assumption that Sméagol/Gollum would have been about twenty-five years old at this date. His long lifespan of almost 600 years is of course far longer than a Hobbit would normally live, and is due to the effects of the Ring. |
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Gollum's descent from the same stock as the Stoors is based on Gandalf's words in The Lord of the Rings I 2 The Shadow of the Past, 'I guess they were of hobbit-kind, akin to the fathers of the fathers of the Stoors'. Gollum's people split from the other Stoors in the fifteenth century of the Third Age, when troubled times in Eriador led them to migrate back eastwards across the Misty Mountains, and settle on the banks of the Gladden River. |
See also...
Anborn, Aragorn Elessar, Beetles, Black Hand, Black One, Company of the Ring, Dark Lord, Dead Tree, Déagol, Elvenkings Halls, Elves of the Wood, Fire of Doom, Fish, Frogs, Gladden River, [See the full list...]Goblin-town, Gollums Ring, Grasshoppers, Great Rings, Great Water, Hedgehogs, High Up, Holm-oaks, Imps, Invisible Baggins, Kingfishers, Legolas Greenleaf, Lord of the Nazgûl, Master, Mice, Misty Mountains, Moontower, Nine-fingered, Ogres, Precious, Ring of Doom, Ring of the Enemy, Ring-bearers, Ring-finder, Ringwinner, River Anduin, Sage, Sarn Gebir, Slag-hills, Slinker, Sméagol, Spiders, Stinker, Stoors of the Angle, Straight Stair, Tale of the Ring, Tall Men, The Angle, The Elvenking, The Great, The Questioner, The Ring, Third Age, Thyme, Trahald, White Council, White Face, Yellow Face
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