Soon after, Sméagol killed his cousin and succumbed to the malice of the Ring. For the rest of his life he sought to recover his precious birthday present. He lived in the Misty Mountains for most of his life. They fought over the ring and Sméagol bit Déagol's hand to get him to release it. It is only Gollums reappearance that accomplishes the end of Sauron, for he attacks Frodo, bites off Frodos finger (and the Ring with it) and falls into the molten volcanic crater. smæo), was a creature (originally a Stoorish Hobbit) who bore the One Ring. Immediately, Sméagol felt the power of the Ring and demanded it of his cousin, who refused. Back then, he was known as Sméagol. He was a Stoor, an early type of Hobbit, and he lived with his family under a matriarchal house run by his grandmother.Īccording to Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, on one of Sméagol's birthdays, he and his cousin Déagol were out fishing on the river when Déagol found a mysterious gold ring at the bottom of the riverbed after being pulled into the water by a large fish. an explanation of Frodo's later statement that he had destroyed the Ring (III, 271), by assuming that Frodo had given Gollum a silent command to bite off his, Frodo's, finger with the 'Precious' on it and to hurl himslef into the fire. But this was predicted 500 years before it ever happened when Gollum first came across the Ring. The way that Gollum takes the Ring from Frodo is particularly memorable because Frodo loses a finger in the process, a fairly gruesome fate for the Hobbit who ferried the most powerful Ring of Sauron across Middle-earth.
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