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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.
Smeagol is a genus of small air-breathing [2] sea slugs of the upper intertidal zone. [3] They are pulmonate gastropod mollusks related to land slugs and snails. Analysis of DNA sequences has shown that Smeagol belongs in the family Ellobiidae , and is therefore closely related to ellobiid snails.
Gollumjapyx smeagol is a species of dipluran, named after Gollum, a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. [1] It is the only species in the genus Gollumjapyx . It was first discovered in caves in the Spanish province of Castellón .
As The Lord of the Rings’s scraggy jewellery obsessive Gollum, he redrew the limits of what CGI characters could do; as Planet of the Apes’ indomitable primate Caesar, he redrew them again ...
His oft-repeated keyword "precious" means both the One Ring and Gollum himself. His use of pronouns is non-standard: he uses both "I" and "We" to mean himself, and when Gollum talks to his alter ego Sméagol, "You" also effectively means himself. [9] Gollum's incorrect plurals, subject-verb agreement, and verb tenses impact translation. [10]
The [credits would say] “Gollum, voiced by Andy Serkis.” And he is playing that character. But there’s still this thing where people will ask me, “So what, are you in prosthetics?
Serkis was referring to the sanctions that are being imposed on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, and the actor likened the evil Gollum to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The British author J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) and the names of fictional characters and places he invented for his legendarium have had a substantial impact on culture, and have become the namesakes of various things around and outside the world, including street names, mountains, companies, species of animals and plants, asteroids, and other notable objects.