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Originally Posted by Legate
the idea of "Gollum the Great", I believe, took shape only as a response to the humiliation and wrong treatment he suffered from everyone since he once again came to the "outside world"
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In my opinion, this came much earlier:
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Originally Posted by Letter #246
It was part of the essential deceit of the Ring to fill minds with imaginations of supreme power.
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Also, as quoted already in this thread, even Sam fell to this, although he had the ring for a far lesser period of time than Gollum did. Insofar as what Gollum's induced temptation would actually imply for him, I believe it is evident from the context that it is by and large not related to ruling others, but limited to procuring/eating fresh fish three times a day.