Gollum:

Here is the Bio from the “The Lord of the Rings” book published by Loring Publishing Corp., and designed by Dana Bryan.

GOLLUM (Smeagol):  “For nearly five hundred years, Gollum was the possessor of the One Ring.  He murdered his companion on a fishing expedition to take the Ring which had been lost for over two thousand years until they discovered it accidentally.  Once he had the Ring, Smeagol came under its terrible power and was soon expelled from his community.  In addition to his increasingly unpleasant habis, he had developed the nasty practice of making unpleasant glottal sounds in his throat from which the name Gollum evolved.  He became a miserable, misshapen, evil-minded, big-eyed creature unable to endure the sun or light.  When he lost the Ring, Gollum’s fate was sealed as he wandered in hope of repossessing that which he called his precious.”