Over the next 500 years, Gollum eked out a twisted, unhappy existence in the caverns under the Misty Mountains, subsisting on raw fish (and sometimes goblin, when he could get it) and obsessing over the Ring. It fundamentally changed him, body and soul, unnaturally prolonging his life and morphing him into a gray-skinned, gremlin-like form. Sméagol and the simple, happy life that accompanied that identity were utterly lost when he laid eyes on the Ring. It was a tragic but inevitable reaction - and even if he had been allowed to stay, there was no way the villagers could have understood what had happened to him and helped him in any meaningful way. When the other Stoors saw what he had done, Sméagol was branded a murderer and driven out of the community to scrape out a living in the wilds. And in mere moments, he had strangled his cousin and taken the Ring for his own. Sméagol demanded that Déagol give it to him as a gift for his birthday but was met with refusal - and instantly flew into a murderous rage. The innocent and simple-minded cousins were no match for the object's malevolent power, and the overpowering desire to possess it took hold of them. Déagol then stumbled across the One Ring at the bottom of the river, where it had been lying for over 2000 years after abandoning its previous bearer, Isildur. Their idyllic outing was rudely interrupted when a large fish suddenly pulled the Hobbits overboard. It was Sméagol's birthday, and he was celebrating with an afternoon of boating and fishing on the river with his cousin Déagol. But all of that changed when tragedy struck one fateful day on the River Anduin. In this early part of his life, he was known as Sméagol and was, by all accounts, an ordinary, unremarkable member of his community. He was originally a Stoor, one of the three breeds of early Hobbits (the other two being the Fallohides and the Harfoots), who favored flat riverside lands and made their living by fishing. Gollum was born late in the Third Age of Middle-earth, though still hundreds of years before the events of The Lord of the Rings.
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