Of the Three and the Fading of the elves

[Gorthaur the Cruel]

Originally Posted by CSteefel

This is what I would argue--Bilbo aged rapidly once the One Ring was destroyed. After all, Gollum managed to live another 70 years after losing the Ring, despite having survived 500 years or so already. Gollum never had the benefit of exposure to another of the Rings...

Perhaps that is why Gollum's physical appearance became so twisted because of the lack of luxury of dwelling under a ring-enchanced environment (Lorien, rivendell), unlike Bilbo.