If I'm understanding your question right, you're wondering what Gollum would have looked like "pre-Ring"?
My own image of the three branches is that they reflect the three races of Middle Earth; Harfoots being the most "mannish", Fallohides being like elves, and Stoors reflecting dwarves, (mainly because they had facial hair.)
Mind you, they all look like Hobbits. Your never going to mistake a Halfling for a Man, Elf or Dwarf. I just think that each branch had a slight overlay of these physical traits to them.
Tolkien even suggests that their interests and personalities reflect the Three Races. Fallohides were more interested in hunting and the arts. Harfoots copied the homes and farming of Man. So I suppose the Stoors may have had a touch of the "love of wealth" that defined the Dwarves.
which kind of explains Smeagol's un-natural attraction to the Ring the moment he saw it.
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