Shade of Carn Dûm
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I fail to see what you're basing that on, TLW. Gollum strangled his "friend" Déagol, then "cunningly" hid his body, "because the gold looked so bright and beautiful." Then, when he realized that the Ring made him invisible, "He was very pleased with his discovery and he concealed it; and he used it to find out secrets, and he put his knowledge to crooked and malicious uses. He became sharp-eyed and keen-eared for all that was hurtful."
Contrast Gollum's behavior with Bilbo's or Frodo's during the years that they possessed the Ring, unsuspecting of its true nature. He sounds like a cold-blooded thief and a murderer to me.
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