Sméagol (Gollum)

Intro Sméagol was a Hobbit of riverland Stoor-kind who lived on the banks of the Anduin in the later Third Age. Sméagol belonged to the reputable family of the stern and wise Matriarch. He spent the early years of his life living with his extended family during the Watchful Peace, when Sauron was in the East. He had some amount of education in lore, as during his youth he had learned of the events concerning the War of the Last Alliance against Sauron.  He also knew the riddle-game, and riddles that were known to their cousins in the Shire. Around the year T.A. 2463, on his birthday, his friend (and close relative) Déagol offered him a cheap present. Later that day they went boating in the Gladden Fields, and as Sméagol was nosing at the banks, Déagol was pulled into the water by a large fish, and found a gold ring. Sméagol demanded the ring as a birthday present and strangled Deágol when he refused, and hid his body.[3] Sméagol became the fourth Ring-bearer after Sauron, Isildur, and Déagol. After this event, he returned home and understood he was invisible. He kept his treasure a secret and used it in malicious ways, to see and hear secrets and hurtful things. and was corrupted further by the ring. Soon he became unpopular and his peers avoided him; they often cursed and kicked him, and he bit their feet. Becoming a loner, he muttered to himself and gurgled in his throat, for which they called him gollum, and he survived by stealing. Eventually even his grandmother, desiring peace, banished him from their family and hobbit-hole. Sad for the hard world, he wandered in loneliness up the River, and followed a stream. He spent time by some deep pools, aided by the invisibility of the Ring, he caught fish which he ate raw. Some time later eventually forgotten by him, the Sun started to scorch his skin and eyes, and as he looked up he noticed the Misty Mountains from which the stream ran down.