The two personalities often quarreled when he talked to himself (as Tolkien put it, "through not having anyone else to speak to") and had a love/hate relationship, mirroring Gollum's love and hatred for the Ring and for himself. Years later, Samwise Gamgee would name the good personality "Slinker" (for his fawning, eager-to-please demeanor), and the bad personality "Stinker". In later years, he found Hobbit and Elven food repulsive.ĭuring his centuries under the Ring's influence, he developed a sort of dissociative identity disorder: Sméagol, his "good" personality, still vaguely remembered things like friendship and love, while Gollum, his "bad" personality, was a slave to the Ring and would kill anyone who tried to take it. Indeed, he made a song about raw fish, which is "The rocks and stones! They're like old bones all bare of meat!" that he uses as a riddle to Bilbo and much later sings to Frodo in a longer version. He lived in the Misty Mountains for over four hundred years, living on raw blind fish (which he caught from his small row boat), bats and small Goblins when he could get them. He called it his "Precious" or his "Birthday Present," the latter as a replacement in his mind for killing Déagol. The Ring's malignant influence twisted his Hobbit body, as well as his mind, and prolonged his life far beyond its natural limits. Sméagol was quickly corrupted further by the Ring and banished by his people turned by his grandmother out of her hole, he was forced to find a home in a cave in the Misty Mountains in around TA 2470. When Déagol refused, Sméagol promptly flew into a rage and fought with Déagol over the Ring, choking him to death and taking the Ring as his own. Almost immediately, Sméagol fell to the power of the Ring, demanding it as a birthday present. It was there that Déagol found a gold Ring in the water, after being pulled out of their boat by a large fish. Déagol was his cousin, and on Sméagol's birthday, they went fishing in the Gladden Fields. Around the year TA 2463, Sméagol became the fourth Bearer of the One Ring, after Sauron, Isildur, and Déagol. Once a Stoorish hobbit, born in TA 2430, Sméagol spent the early years of his life living with his extended family under a Matriarch, his grandmother.
Sméagol as the Ring first began to possess him Sméagol wanting to take the Ring from Déagol before killing him