Birth As Bilbo escaped, Gollum cried out, "Thief, Thief, Thief! [16], The scholars of English literature William N. Rogers II and Michael R. Underwood compare Gollum to the similarly named[18] evil and ancient hag Gagool in Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines; Tolkien acknowledged Haggard, especially his novel She, as a major influence. On the other hand, McGregor writes, Siegfried is a hero, Bilbo, an anti-hero; and the shrunken Mime is the most Gollum-like character in Wagner's Ring Cycle. Indeed, he made a song about raw fish, which is "The rocks and stones! Blue-gray [39], The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a video game centered on Gollum, is currently under development by Daedalic Entertainment. Sméagol was a Stoorish hobbit living with his extended family under his grandmother, the matriarch of the family. [3], Gollum's spying eyes in the Mines of Moria. Cain is jealous of his brother Abel; Sméagol is jealous of the shiny gold ring that his friend Déagol has found. Apart from Gandalf and Bilbo, Frodo is the only person known to have shown kindness towards Gollum, who is hated instantly by everyone he meets, being perceived as filthy, slimy, sneaky and suspect by groups as different as the Orcs of Cirith Ungol and the Rangers of Ithilien. It was there that Déagol found a gold ring in the water, after being pulled out of their boat by a large fish. [22], In the 1977 Rankin/Bass adaptation of The Hobbit and its 1980 The Return of the King, Gollum was voiced by Brother Theodore. He could spot and catch fish in almost any level of light and waters. Callaway calls this "the ultimate heroic self-sacrifice", arguing that Gollum acted "consciously" using "the good fraction in his mind finally overpowering the Ring's evil". [11], Jamie McGregor, writing in Mythlore, compares Sméagol's murder of Déagol to Fafner's murder of his brother Fasolt in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Faramir found out that the place Gollum was taking them was called Cirith Ungol. [15], David Callaway, writing in Mythlore, notes that Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, had made Middle-earth a place where good and evil are in conflict under an omnipotent god, Eru Ilúvatar: in other words, "his cosmology is Christian". [T 9] According to Sam in The Fellowship of the Ring, he had "paddle-feet, like a swan's almost, only they seemed bigger" when Gollum was following their boat by paddling a log down the River Anduin. [18], Dale Nelson, writing in the J.R.R. [2] In Tolkien's Red Book of Westmarch, the name "Déagol" is supposedly a translation of the "original" name in the author-invented language of Westron, "Nahald", with the same meaning. In the first edition of The Hobbit, Tolkien made no reference to his size, leading several illustrators to portray him as being very large. In the novel, Frodo doesn't attempt to attack Gollum; Gollum instead accidentally falls in when he dances with joy at his reclamation of the Ring. Tolkien Encyclopedia, suggests that Gollum may derive from H. G. Wells's Morlocks in his 1895 novel The Time Machine. Gender When Déagol refused, Sméagol promptly flew into a barbaric rage and fought with Déagol over the ring, choking him to death and taking the ring as his own. [T 3] In the first edition of The Hobbit, Gollum's size is not stated. [T 6] He was unable or unwilling to eat the lembas bread Sam and Frodo carried with them, and rejects cooked rabbit in favour of raw meat or fish. In The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Serkis himself appears in a flashback scene as Sméagol before his degeneration into Gollum. Bosworth, J., & Toller, T. Northcote. Thief, Baggins! For if Gollum did not stay with Sam and Frodo to the end of Mordor, Frodo's inability to destroy the Ring would have alerted Sauron to it, and all good in the world of Middle-earth would disappear. On Sméagol's birthday in TA 2463 they went fishing (or rather Déagol fished while Sméagol dug in the earth), and a big fish pulled Déagol underwater. His appearance was originally to be bigger and more menacing, like Smaug in The Hobbit trilogy, but were changed to make their "characters".[5]. The two had a strange sort of bond from both having been Ring-bearers; in Gollum, Frodo saw his possible future, and so wanted to save him so he could save himself. Andy Serkis [T 3] When not referring to himself in third person, he sometimes speaks of himself in the plural as "we", hinting at his alter ego. Gollum said he would lead them south, where he knew of another entrance into Mordor, in which Frodo complied, despite Sam's suspicions. Sam, who had hated Gollum on sight, tried to bring himself to kill him, but he relented out of sheer pity and disgust, turning his back on the beaten (but still wily) creature. Smeagol is good, Gollum is bad. Despite these details, he is generally depicted wearing a loincloth or naked in illustrations and adaptations. It was (apparently) that of a woman of great age, so shrunken that in size it was no larger than that of a year-old child, and was made up of a collection of deep yellow wrinkles ... a pair of large black eyes, still full of fire and intelligence, which gleamed and played under the snow-white eyebrows, and the projecting parchment-coloured skull, like jewels in a charnel-house. He was portrayed through motion capture by Andy Serkis in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. Height [26], Kari Väänänen portrayed Gollum (Finnish: Klonkku) in the 1993 live-action television miniseries Hobitit [The hobbits] produced and broadcast by the Finnish network Yle. On Sméagol's birthday, he and his relative Déagol went fishing in the Gladden Fields. They have "dull white" skin with a "bleached look", "strange large grayish-red eyes" with "a capacity for reflecting light", and run in a low posture somewhere close to all fours, looking like "a human spider", through having lived for generations underground in darkness. He suddenly realized the true answer to Bilbo's last riddle—"What have I got in my pocket?" He wandered in the wilderness for a few years until he finally retreated to a deep cavern in the Misty Mountains. Originally a Stoor Hobbit, Sméagol spent the early years of his life living with his extended family under a Matriarch, his grandmother. When… Commentators have described Gollum as a psychological shadow figure for Frodo and as an evil guide in contrast to the wizard Gandalf, the good guide. Gollum or Sméagol undoubtedly suffered the most from the Ring, as for almost all his unnaturally long life he was tortured by it into gradual mental destruction.[4]. Barely glimpsed in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), he becomes a central character in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). Also, in Jackson's depiction, Gollum seems to be neutral, having no affiliation with Sauron (though he's still tortured by Sauron's minions and is still imprisoned. [41], In 1973, a genus of ground sharks was named Gollum by the taxonomist Leonard Compagno, who noted that the slender smooth-hound "bears some resemblance in form and habits" to the Tolkien character. The same element appears in Gollum’s real name, Sméagol .” To this, I would add that Tolkien had already addressed this point in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings , where he wrote: [21] His role is reduced to a scene depicting him sitting in his boat. [T 6], Frodo and Sam confronted Gollum in the Emyn Muil; Gollum nearly strangled Sam, but Frodo subdued him with his Elvish sword, Sting, which had once belonged to Bilbo. In The Hobbit, he always refers to himself as "my precious". Years later, Samwise Gamgee would name the good personality "Slinker" (for his fawning, eager-to-please demeanor), and the bad personality "Stinker". Their both the greatest if you ask me! Alternatively, some of Saruman's or Sauron's spies may have revealed to him the Fellowship was heading towards Moria. For the animated being from Jewish folklore, see, "Smeagol" redirects here. He would cringe and flinch, if they stepped near him or made any sudden movement, and he avoided the touch of their elven-cloaks; but he was friendly, and indeed pitifully anxious to please. After the infamous Riddle Game, during which Gollum was unaware of his loss, Gollum refused to show Bilbo the promised way out and plotted to murder him. When Frodo and Sam had almost reached their destination, Gollum attacked them, but Frodo threw him down. Sméagol's "real" Westron name was Trahald, of the meaning "burrowing, worming in or "apt to creep into a hole". Recognized as one of the most tragic and unfortunate figures of Third Age, Gollum was an anomaly. See more ideas about the hobbit, lord of the rings, lotr. The One Wiki to Rule Them All is a FANDOM Movies Community. [20], Gollum's first known screen adaptation is in Gene Deitch's 1967 short film The Hobbit. At the time of his death, Sméagol was about 589 years old, a remarkable age for a creature that was once a Hobbit, but he had been deformed and twisted in both body and mind by the corruption of the Ring. The decision to include this scene meant that Gollum's face had to be redesigned for the second and third movies so that it would more closely resemble Serkis'. Sam faced Gollum on his own, letting Frodo continue up the mountain to finish their mission. 589 Gollum met and started following the Fellowship of the Ring in Moria, and was spotted and heard by Frodo on several occasions. Déagol and Sméagol apparently lived in an extended family under a Matriarch. [2], Gollum eventually left the Mountains and pursued Bilbo a few years later, but the trail was cold. Discovering the Ring missing, he suddenly realised the answer to Bilbo's last riddle—"What have I got in my pocket?" When he went to get his "birthday present," however, he found that it was gone. In both Ralph Bakshi's animated film of The Lord of the Rings (1978) and the BBC's 1981 radio serial, the voice of Gollum is supplied by Peter Woodthorpe. His chief desire was to possess the Ring that had enslaved him, and he … (a question at first not meant as a riddle, but as a self-asked one)—and flew into a rage. [T 4], Gollum began following the Fellowship of the Ring in Moria, but was noticed by Frodo Baggins, Gandalf, and Aragorn. Bilbo inadvertently stumbled across the Ring's power of invisibility as he ran, allowing him to follow Gollum to the back entrance of the cave. The CGI character was built around Serkis's facial features, voice, and acting choices, and is depicted naked but for a loincloth. [T 4] He draws a parallel between Sméagol's asking for the Ring with Fafner's; Déagol refuses, saying "I'm going to keep it", just as Fasolt says "I hold it: it belongs to me"; Sméagol derisively says "Oh, are you indeed, my love", and throttles him, turning by degrees into the Ring-depraved Gollum-monster, while Fafner sourly says "Hold it fast in case it falls" and clubs Fasolt to death, becoming by degrees a treasure-fixated dragon. An average hobbit lifespan is over 100 years, but a span of 556 years separates Gollum's finding of the Ring and its destruction, by which time he was almost 600 years old. Smeagol quotes that will really inspire you. He was also very good at not being seen and was an excellent waterman making use of anything that could float which made it possible for him to follow the Fellowship for so long. He lived in the Misty Mountains for over four hundred years, living on raw blind fish (which he caught from his small row boat), bats and small Goblins when he could get them. Along with that, the two characters both have a monstrous character. [18] Like Gollum, she is human-like but distorted to a parody; she is shrunken and extremely old; her large eyes and speech are distinctive; and she is wholly materialistic, with a "terrible greediness and self-referencing" and "the insatiable claims of the naked ego". Agreeing to the oath, Gollum swore by the Ring itself, and Frodo released him. [3], Gollum was introduced in The Hobbit as "a small, slimy creature" who lived on a small island in an underground lake at the roots of the Misty Mountains. … I love hoarding toys almost as much as I love cuddles. Déagol is an Old English translation of the "original" Westron name 'Nahald'. Culture Thus, the Ring was destroyed and Sauron defeated. The name Gollum was derived from the sound of his disgusting gurgling, choking cough. But Bilbo had it 60 and Frodo 18 before Smeagol dies. Reception of J. R. R. Tolkien § Jungian archetypes, Christianity in Middle-earth § Moral conflict, The Fairytale Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, "Cain-Leviathan Typology in Gollum and Grendel", "Temptation and the Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien describes Gollum as either dark, bone-white or sallow (pale yellow): at one point, the Men of Ithilien mistake his silhouette (seen from a distance) for a tailless black squirrel. Gagool is described as seeming to be[18], a withered-up monkey [that] crept on all fours ... a most extraordinary and weird countenance. There, Frodo was stung by Shelob, taken prisoner by Orcs, and hauled to the Tower of Cirith Ungol. Moments later, Frodo was standing on the edge of the Crack of Doom, but, unwilling to destroy the Ring, claimed it for himself and put it on. The unlikely company, guided by Gollum, made its way to the Black Gate of Mordor. "A new highly specialized cave harvestman from Brazil and the first blind species of the genus: "Erdoğan'a hakarette 'Gollum' cezası: Doktor memuriyetten men edildi", "Is being compared to Gollum the ultimate insult... or precious praise? "; he did not immediately follow Bilbo out of fear of being caught by the goblins, and so lingered in his cave. In both the 1981 BBC radio adaptation and in the Peter Jackson movies, Sméagol is pronounced as "SMEE-gol", although the placement of the acute accent suggests that the correct pronunciation is "SMAY-uh-gol", IPA ['sme:.agol] [T 16] Rutledge comments that the sad story has happened to everybody, trapped, as Christians believe, in "Sin and Death", and states that[17], The genuinely revolting Gollum is central not only to the surface narrative, ... but also to the underlying theological drama. 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[10][8], The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger suggests that Gollum is Tolkien's central monster-figure, likening him to both Grendel and the Beowulf dragon, "the twisted, broken, outcast hobbit whose manlike shape and dragonlike greed combine both the Beowulf kinds of monster in one figure". Other names [16] And indeed, Gollum's alter ego, Sméagol, struggles to be good, speaks the truth when questioned by Frodo, and guides them through the Dead Marshes. As Bilbo ran, Gollum cried out, "Thief! [23] He appeared somewhat froglike. Over the years, his eyes adapted to the dark and became "lamp-like", shining with a sickly pale light. In the new version, Gollum pretended that he would show Bilbo the way out if he lost the riddle-game, but he actually planned to use the Ring to kill and eat the hobbit. In July T.A. [40], The band Led Zeppelin mention Gollum and Mordor in their 1969 song "Ramble On", with the lyrics "Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor / I met a girl so fair / But Gollum, and the evil one crept up / And slipped away with her". When Frodo and Sam had almost reached their destination, he attacked, but failed to get the Ring. He was freed, but was soon caught by Gandalf and Aragorn, who interrogated him about the Ring and placed him in the care of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood. —King Solomon's Mines, 1885[18], They note that Gagool speaks of and rejoices in "blood and death". Gollum is a forgotten and broken tangle of destructive behavior. "[T 3], Gollum's real name was Sméagol, and he had once been a member of the secluded branch of the early Stoorish Hobbits. His chief desire was to possess the Ring which had enslaved him, and he pursued it for many years after he lost it. [14], The Tolkien scholar Charles W. Nelson described Gollum as an evil guide, contrasted with Gandalf, the good guide (like Virgil in Dante's Inferno) in Lord of the Rings. Unlike the novel, Gollum's fall into the Cracks of Doom is caused when Frodo wrestles him off the precipice. He fished the waters of the Misty Mountain's underground lake for centuries in almost complete darkness and almost anywhere he had to after leaving his cave in search of the Ring and the "thief" Baggins. Gollum followed their boats down Anduin (floating on a log) to Rauros and pursued Frodo and Sam across the Emyn Muil when they struck out on their own towards Mordor. [46] Jackson stated that the image concerned was of Sméagol, not the evil Gollum. In 2015, a species of cave-dwelling harvestmen was named Iandumoema smeagol. Baggins! However, Sam woke up and spoke harshly to him, and the opportunity for redemption was lost. Originally known as Sméagol, he was corrupted by the One Ring and later named Gollum after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat". [16], The Episcopal priest Fleming Rutledge writes that at the Council of Elrond, Frodo angrily resists the notion that Gollum was a Hobbit like himself, but that Gandalf describes the tale of Gollum's enslavement to the Ring as "a sad story" rather than as Frodo's description of him, "loathsome". At his wits' end in the dark, Bilbo agreed to a riddle game with Gollum on the chance of being shown the way out of the mountains. To fit the concept of the ruling Ring that emerged during the writing of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien revised later editions of The Hobbit. Sméagol obtained the Ring by murdering his relative Déagol, who found it in the River Anduin. Gollum fishing in the Forbidden Pool in Ithilien. Alberich had cursed the "thief" who took the ring; Gollum curses Bilbo for taking his Ring. [24], In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Gollum was voiced by Peter Woodthorpe. Frodo and Sam and Smeagol, they’re all hobbits, all worthy of love and deserving of mercy. There are so many Smeagol quotes that can help you when you are tired of being in the same old rut, and all you need is a little push, a little inspiration, a smile on the face, change of mood, bring you out of the banality of life, make you laugh a little, or may even make you cry a bit, and these Smeagol quotes exists just do that. Full name Arwen Undómiel. So if you have any toys, gives it to us! His testimony alerted Sauron to the existence and significance of hobbits in general and the Baggins family in particular. Stoor-hobbits [T 13], In the first edition of The Hobbit, Tolkien made no reference to Gollum's size, leading illustrators such as Tove Jansson to portray him as very large. Voice In a manuscript written to guide illustrators to the appearance of his characters, Tolkien explained this by saying that Gollum had pale skin, but wore dark clothes and was often seen in poor light. The rare occasions when he actually says "I" are interpreted by Frodo as an indication that Sméagol's better self has the upper hand. Gollum had lost the Ring while squabbling with an imp goblin in the network of caves leading to the lake, though in fact it is more proper to say that the Ring abandoned Gollum, for it was known to have a will of its own. On January 15, 3019, the Fellowship was divided when Gandalf disappeared while fighting a Balrog (though he later returned). Gollum continued trailing the remaining members. In short, as Tolkien writes, Gollum is "not altogether wicked". Brother TheodorePeter WoodthorpeAndy Serkis (Peter Jackson's films)Liam O'Brien (Shadow of Mordor). [T 7], When they reached the Black Gate and found it well-guarded, Gollum offered to lead them toward an alternate entrance into Mordor. [19], A 2004 paper in the British Medical Journal by supervised students at University College London argued that Gollum meets seven of the nine diagnostic criteria for schizoid personality disorder. Birthday: 08/01/18 // Adoptiversary: 04/09/19 Sam cursed Gollum after his death, but Frodo urged his friend to forgive him, as without him the quest would have failed. Had Gollum not lived to play this final part, there was a good chance that Sauron would have regained his Ring, as he knew where Frodo was as soon as he put it on. [12] All the same, McGregor notes that Arthur Morgan identified evident parallels, starting with Alberich's curse: there is only one ring; it is cursed; it gives limitless power; owning it brings only misery, and it consumes its owner, who becomes its slave; its owner is called the Lord; owning it is living death. Both names carry the meaning "apt to hide, secretive". Gray Weta Workshop's early stages of visualizing how Gollum could look, before Andy Serkis' face was accommodated, is covered in the last chapter of The Art of The Two Towers by Gary Russell, and in "Part Three: The Journey Continues" in the extended edition appendices. In 1992, a genus of intertidal sea slugs was named Smeagol in reference to the original name of the Tolkien character. Gollum followed them, but after a confrontation (in which he bit and nearly strangled Sam for the Ring) Frodo subdued him and threatened to kill him with Sting, the Elvish blade that Gollum had apparently recognized by its former owner - Bilbo. Hair Once a Stoorish Hobbits, Sméagol spent the early years of his life living with his extended family under a Matriarch, his grandmother. ", "Is Gollum good or bad? He trailed the Fellowship to the edge of Lothlórien. Ironically the one being who suffered the most from the One Ring was the one who manages to destroy it in the end. He was known to eat almost anything that was living or edible and could stomach anything raw and uncooked. Frodo and Sam were caught by Faramir, and Gollum followed them. [T 3], Bilbo Baggins stumbled upon Gollum's lair, having found the Ring in the network of goblin tunnels leading down to the lake. For the sea slug, see, Fictional monster in Tolkien's fantasy series. The band Led Zeppelin mention Gollum and Mordor in their 1969 song "Ramble On", with the lyrics "Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor / I met a girl so fair / But Gollum, and the evil one crept up / And slipped away with her". Race Sméagol fell immediately under the Ring's influence and demanded it as a birthday present; when Déagol refused, Sméagol strangled him. Gollum was then strangely freed, as he shows no particular loyalty towards Sauron, but caught by Aragorn, then interrogated by Gandalf, who placed him in the care of the Silvan Elves living in Thranduil's kingdom in Mirkwood. Mean or vicious Hobbits were extremely rare, for while they could endure spells of wrathful and bitter feelings, and their children were often adventurous to the point of appearing obstreperous to some, almost none were truly aggressive, cruel, or wicked. He became the third bearer of the One Ring, after Isildur, when he found it in the Gladden river (a tributary to the Anduin) with his cousin Sméagol. Almost immediately, Sméagol fell to the power of the ring, demanding it as a birthday present. Trahald, Slinker, Stinker, Shelob's Sneak [35], Gollum is the eponymous character in The Hunt for Gollum, an independently produced 2009 prequel to the Jackson films directed by Chris Bouchard. [29] Taking pity, Frodo made Gollum swear to help them. Déagol was born some time between TA 2400 and TA 2430.
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