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Gollum is a monster [2] with a distinctive style of speech in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became important in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit [T 1] [T 2] of the River-folk who lived near the Gladden Fields.
Armoni and Mephibosheth [1] are named in the Hebrew Bible as the two sons of Saul by his concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah. [2] After Saul's death, they were killed in revenge for his violence against the Gibeonites .
Gollum represents the evil part of Frodo's character, desiring the Ring for himself. Sam is intolerant of Gollum's evil, reflecting Frodo's early, unthinking attitude to the creature. The three of them are bound together by their hobbit nature, by their quest, by bonds of loyalty and oath, and by the Ring itself.
Hobbits are not totally immune to the Ring's effects, however, as shown by the changes it works in Frodo, Bilbo and Gollum. [3] On the other hand, Boromir becomes obsessed with the Ring, but never possesses it, while Sméagol kills his kin Déagol , the first Ring bearer after Isildur , to obtain it.
The actor, who played Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s blockbuster JRR Tolkien adaptations, addressed rumours he might feature in the forthcoming film, centred on Andy Serkis’s Gollum, during a new ...
In Tolkien's book, the monster Gollum talks to himself in two different personalities, the good Sméagol and the evil Gollum. [4] Peter Jackson 's 2002 film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , part of his major film series on Middle-earth , similarly depicts Gollum/Sméagol talking to himself in "perhaps the most celebrated scene in the ...
Warner Bros. will release the first of its new batch of “The Lord of the Rings” films in 2026, which will focus on Andy Serkis’s Gollum.
Gollum's fall into the lava of Mount Doom was rewritten for the film, as the writers felt that simply having Gollum slip and fall was anticlimactic. Originally, an even greater deviation was planned: Frodo would heroically push Gollum over the ledge to destroy him and the Ring, but the production team realised that that would make it look as if ...