Quick Facts
Gendermale
BornTA 2430—2430
DiedMarch 25, TA 3019 (aged 589), Cracks of Doom—3019—Mount Doom—molten lava below
Place of deathMount Doom
Cause of deathburn—accidental death
HomeworldMisty Mountains
HeightShorter than 3'6"—Average hobbit height—small—short
EyesBlue-gray—glowing—Not specified, but often depicted with large, dark eyes—keen eyed—yellow—beady
HairGray—stringy, dark—Not specified, but often depicted as bald or with very little hair—dirty and matted—black—brown
Also known asSmeagol, Sméagol
Character
Gollum
The Lord of the Rings·fictional character from The Hobbit
Gollum, originally the Stoor-hobbit Sméagol, is a creature twisted in body and mind by centuries of possession by the One Ring. After murdering his kinsman Déagol to seize the Ring, he dwelt for ages beneath the Misty Mountains until Bilbo Baggins found the Ring and carried it away.
Driven by his obsession with his "Precious," Gollum trails the Fellowship and later guides Frodo and Sam toward Mordor, wavering between his Sméagol and Gollum personalities before betraying them to Shelob. His final struggle for the Ring at the Cracks of Doom brings about both his death and the Ring's destruction. He features across Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films.
Hobbit Ring-bearer
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Timeline
Key events in the life and history of Gollum.
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Undated
Relationships
Key people, factions, places, and events connected to Gollum.
PEOPLE
PLACES
Connected Content
Related entities surfaced from across the OLN network.
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Identity
Appearance
- Gender
- male
- Height
- Shorter than 3'6"—Average hobbit height—small—short
- Eye color
- Blue-gray—glowing—Not specified, but often depicted with large, dark eyes—keen eyed—yellow—beady
- Hair color
- Gray—stringy, dark—Not specified, but often depicted as bald or with very little hair—dirty and matted—black—brown
Origin & End
- Homeworld
- Misty Mountains
- Born
- TA 2430—2430
- Died
- March 25, TA 3019 (aged 589), Cracks of Doom—3019—Mount Doom—molten lava below
Relationships
- Trained by
- Déagol
- Parent of
- Gollum
- Child of
- Sméagol's grandmother
- Siblings
- Déagol
Abilities & Equipment
- Weapons
- AttackStingfishring
Other
- Adversaries
- Cause of death
- burn—accidental death
- Performers
- Place of death
- Mount Doom
- Age
- TA 2430—over four hundred years—centuries—589 years
- Type
- character—Villain—Ring bearer—Stoor—Hobbit-type
- Wields
- One Ring
Appearances
Where Gollum appears across works and media.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
The Two Towers
The Return of the King (film)
The Two Towers (book, 1954)
The Return of the King (book, 1955)
The Fellowship of the Ring (book, 1954)
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Connections 11
- species
- Hobbit
- homeworld
- Misty Mountains
- took part in
- War of the Ring
- sibling of
- Déagol
- wields
- One Ring
- trained by
- Déagol
- preyed on
- Shelob
Sources
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