Gollum also said:
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"...You cannot reach them, you cannot touch them. We tried once, yes, precious. I tried once; but you cannot reach them. Only shapes to see, perhaps, not to touch. No precious! All dead."
Sam looked darkly at him and shuddered again, thinking that he guessed why Smeagol had tried to touch them.
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Poor, hungry Smeagol. No dinner that day. UGH!!!!! Anyway, if Smeagol-- who is quite the diver and swimmer-- could not touch them, they might have been spirit form only, or perhaps illuionary (I vote for spirit form.)