Gollum do you pity him or hate him?

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

I would read the letters but I dont have a copy and know no one who does...anyways, yes, he was mean, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN HE WAS EVIL. Tell me, did Tolkien ever call Smeagol evil? And so what if he was usually greedy and mean, that doesn't make him evil and it doesn't mean that he was never good. And then, maybe Gollum was evil, but not all the time. If evil is sinful, I could call Sam an evil person. Don't take the word out of context. Go ahead and call him mean, greedy, selfish, even evil at times, but do not say that he was always evil. And I thought we were talking about the Smeagol part of Gollum. Youre really starting to confuse me here, so I'll just say my point again: Smeagol/Gollum wasn't 'no good' before he got the ring.