Gollum's Purpose/Motives (To Stir Things Up)

[the Lorien wanderer]

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Re: The Ring

Thanks e.
Mr.U- I think that Gollum was not EVIL to begin with. He certainly had some evil qualities but on the whole he was normal. Greed was one of his faults. Thus when the Ring became aware of Gollum's greed, it started working upon it and thus he killed Deagol and hid his body. He did it because his fault was magnified by the Ring not because he had a huge fault to begin with.
Bilbo too, in case you remember, lied to the other hobbits about the Ring at first. Perhaps the Ring had worked upon Bilbo's wanting to achieve something and getting the hobbits' admiration, for which he was willing to stretch the truth a little bit. Just a thought.

What if - what if this is as good as it gets?</p>