The Hobbit - Chapter 05 - Riddles in the Dark

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

I think you're all off track with this Sméagol/Gollum dichotomy as it pertains to this chapter. Gollum was in the fore, and had been for quite a few centuries, and remained in the fore right up until the moment Frodo bound him by the Ring ... and treated him as someone with the dignity of a human (read hobbitish) soul. Only then did Sméagol appear. Tolkien makes this quite clear in the chapter called The Taming of Sméagol.

Usch, usch.
At least his is a kinder Gollum than the one we see in LotR.