His demise was deserved, and as the final bearer of the Ring, their collective death resolved the climax of the series. Gollum had no one to blame but himself for immoral actions, and gave in to his desires for the Ring rather than reject them as several other characters have managed to do. Frodo forgives Gollum at the end of the series because he believes that Gollum was not entirely at fault for what he did, that it was the power of the Ring that forced him into this destructive madness. Though Hobbits do not normally live nearly 600 years, his consumption of the Ring and his descent into the mountain with its unnatural power allowed him to survive until 3019, when he fell to his death, fittingly with his precious Ring, into the fires of Mount Doom.

Born in TA 2430, Gollum’s original name was Sméagol, descended from one of the earliest Hobbit races, the Stoors. He is acknowledged by many of the characters in Tolkien’s The Hobbit and especially, The Lord of the Rings, and even more are vaguely aware of his presence, but he creeps across Middle-earth in secret, perpetually hunting in the darkness for his precious.

The fact that he was living off of raw fish and other living creatures didn’t help his disfigurement, either, until a time came when nothing remained of the former Smeagol in terms of looks.Gollum is a forgotten and broken tangle of destructive behavior. It’s not clear if it was guilt or the Ring’s own addiction that pushed him down a life of misery and indulgence, but the magical object prolonged his life and slowly twisted his Hobbit body. He went to the Misty Mountains then and lived there for over four hundred years. Smeagol was further corrupted by the Ring’s influence, and thus cast out of the village by his Hobbit kin. Smeagol suggested that Deagol should make a gift of the Ring to him for his birthday, but when Deagol resisted, his friend - already far into the grip of its magical temptation - choked him to death. On his 33rd birthday, he and his friend Deagol went fishing in the river, where they came upon the One Ring. He was a Hobbit of Stoorish descent and lived in the Vales of Anduin. Smeagol was born in the 2430th year of the Third Age, some 600 years before the events of The Lord of the Rings.

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