Gollum vs. Smeagol

Smeagol was a hobbit. He lived by a lake, where he often went fishing. An extraodinary thing happened on one of his birthdays. He exploring the banks of the lake while his friend, Deagol, was fishing nearby. Deagol was dragged overboard by a great fish on the line, and in the sand at the bottom of the lake he found a ring. Smeagol, overcome with envy, demanded the ring as his birthday present, and when Deagol refused, Smeagol killed Deagol for the ring. 

After this his life changed forever. He became obsessed with the ring, his "precious" as he called it. This caused him to forget everything, even his own name. He was then called Gollum, because of the croaking sound he made so often. And whenever Gollum put on the ring, he became invisible, which he first used to play tricks and steal, and later to kill orcs for his food. The ring also gave Gollum, unnatural long life. He lived in the tunnels of the Misty Mountains for 500 years. 

Then the ring left Gollum, and was pick up by another hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In this way, the ring left Gollum, and several years afterwards, Gollum left the Misty Mountains to search for his precious. Gollum found the ring again when he tracked Frodo through Moria all the way to the Emyn Muil. There Gollum became Frodo's guide into Mordor. 


On this journey, Smeagol struggled with his other self, Gollum, in vocal conversations. In other words, Smeagol was having a war with the ring. Smeagol wants to be independent of Gollum, and for a while he was. But in the end, Smeagol learned that he would never be able to live without his precious. 

Gollum got his ring back. In the fires of Mount Doom, Gollum bit Frodo's finger off, and he had got his precious back. He was so happy that he started to dance. He danced right over the edge into the fires of Mount Doom. So endeth the Ring. And so endeth Smeagol, the hobbit who became Gollum.