Where is he? Where has he gone? Hey, Gollum! Where are you? and we be the master!īut the fat Hobbit, he knows. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the precious. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. and away he goes, Precious! Gone, gone, gone! SMEAGOL IS FREE! *I* saved us! It was me! *We* survived because of *me*! Where would you be without me, uh? gollum, gollum. You don't have any friends nobody likes you! Yes, precious, false! They will cheat you, hurt you, LIE. Bilbo lost his immortality but likely saved his soul, while Gollum wasn't just going to fade away.We wants it, we needs it. The seeming discrepancy lies within those particulars. That would move him far closer to the shadow realm than Bilbo: essentially immortal but not yet permanently enslaved to Sauron's will. He obsessed about it constantly and was prepared to go to any length to get it back. It was key to his survival in the Misty Mountains, where he would hunt goblins for food and otherwise need to avoid attention. Gollum, conversely, used the Ring copiously and often for centuries. That left him comparatively untouched by the Ring's influence, though it exacted a price as his true age caught up to him at last when he finally, reluctantly surrendered it. He pulled it out only when he wished to avoid someone - notably his sour relations, the Sackville-Baggins - or to play a prank as he did during his birthday party at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Bilbo didn't use the Ring very often.
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