
Sméagol is instantly affected by the power of the One Ring and asks Déagol to present it to him as a birthday present. Déagol was pulled by a large fish out of the boat and into the water, where he found the One Ring. During the year TA 2463, the two of them went fishing, on the day of Sméagol’s birthday in the Gladden Fields.

Sméagol and Déagol, his cousin lived under their grandmother, who was the Matriarch of the family. They usually lived with a head Matriarch. His people had moved to the Gladden Fields and were people of river lands. Sméagol lived the early part of his life with his extended family near the Anduin. In the movies, he is transformed from a character of deuteragonist into one that is the secondary antagonist. His primary motive was to have the One Ring in his possession, and he spent many years trying to regain possession of it when the One Ring abandoned him in and was found by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in TA 2941. Since he found the One Ring and fell prey to its powers, he was obsessed with it. Even though he was a hobbit once, his body and mind that had been enslaved by the One Ring had become twisted and deformed. Due to the effect of having possessed the One Ring, the creature Gollum lived for a much longer time than natural and is supposed to have died at the age of 589, on March 25, 3019.

He is supposed to have been born in TA 2430. He was a Stoorish hobbit, one of the three breeds of hobbits, living in the Misty Mountains.

Gollum was initially called as Sméagol or Trahald. After that, this character gained a role of importance in The Lord of the Rings. This character first appeared in The Hobbit, Tolkien’s novel published in 1937. Gollum, a fictional character created by J.R.R.
