Other Names: Sméagol, Trahald, Slinker, Stinker
Date of Birth: 2430 of the Third Age
Race: Hobbit of the Stoor strain
Height: between 3-4 feet, when not hunched over
Date of Death: 3019 of the Third Age
History:
Gollum was once a Hobbit of the Stoor strain called Sméagol. He was born in the year 2430 of the Third Age, not far from the Gladen Fields in the Vales of Anduin. In 2463, Sméagol’s cousin Déagol found the One Ring of Power while fishing and Sméagol immediately murdered him for it. The power of the Ring lengthened Sméagol’s life, yet it warped him beyond recognition. There after, he was called Gollum because of the nasty, gutteral sounds he made when trying to speak. He became a ghoulish being who shunned light and lived by foul murder and eating unclean meat. He found comfort in dark pools and deep caverns. His skin became hairless, black and clammy, and his body thin and gaunt. His head was like a skull and his eyes bulged like those of a fish. His teeth grew long like Orc fangs, (all though he only had 7 of them left when he meet Bilbo) and his hobbit feet grew flat and webbed. For nearly five centuries, Gollum lived hidden in the caverns beneath the Misty Mountains.
In 2941, the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins made a fateful visit to his cavern and took the one ring. In 3019, Gollum at last hunted down Frodo Baggins, the new Ringbearer, but try as he might, he could not overcome him. For a time Frodo almost seemed able to tame Gollum, but Gollum lived by treachery.
So it was at the final moment, when the power of the Ring overcame even the good Frodo upon Mount Doom, Gollum attacked the Ringbearer on the edge of the Cracks of Doom. Summoning all his evil strength, Gollum won the Ring by biting off Frodo’s finger, but at that moment of victory, he topple backwards with his precious prize down into the fiery Mountain of Doom.
