![]() Gollum has one treasure, a golden ring he calls his "birthday-present" (5.100) because it came to him – you guessed it – on his birthday. He's not just a threat he is also incredibly pitiful. But he's obviously lonely and sad: he talks to himself using "we," so he must want company. Gollum is quite dangerous to Bilbo, since he's fond of eating other people and sometimes gets tired of fish. He also punctuates his whispering with noisy gulping swallows, hence the name, "Gollum." Gollum spends a lot of time alone, something we can observe pretty easily by the frequency with which he talks to himself. He has spent so much time underground that his eyes have grown giant and protruding on account of all of his peering through murky tunnels. As Tolkien describes him, he is "dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face" (5.12). Gollum is a slimy, skinny creature living in the middle of an underground lake underneath the Misty Mountains. ![]()
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