[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Raynor

In my opinion, this came much earlier:

Yup, as I said, maybe when he got possession of the Ring and came back to the Stoor village. But he did not succumb to this, because he did not have such ambitions - he wanted to hide and not to make himself a master.

Originally Posted by Shadows of the Past

[The Ring] could make no further use of [Gollum]: he was too small and mean; and as long as it stayed with him he would never leave his deep pool again.

However if he ever succumbed to this idea, I believe what he means here by "Lord Sméagol" is not just about eating fish three times a day, I imagine it the way that he (in his simple imagination of that, he probably could not think of politics or being a ruler, if it ever happened, some viceregent would probably rule instead of him) imagined himself sitting let's say in the Barad-Dur (or more probably Barad-Pool) and servants bring him fresh fish three times a day.

Perhaps we grows very strong, stronger than Wraiths. Lord Smeagol? Gollum the Great?

This does not seem to be as "simple" image of power as you said in your last sentence. "Stronger than wraiths" implies some basic assumption of becoming THE master.