Gollum

                Slinker or Stinker.  These are the two nicknames that Sam gave Gollum on his and Frodo’s journey to Mount Doom. Gollum was originally called Sméagol, until he found the One Ring. Looking at him at the time when Sméagol found the Ring to the time that the Ring was found by Bilbo, you would not believe that it was the same creature.  Sméagol was originally of a race not too distant from elves or hobbits, sort of in between; however, years after he found the Ring, he looked like a mix between an emancipated hobbit and an orc or goblin. After Bilbo found the Ring and escaped with it, the long time keeper of the Ring, Gollum, found a new abiding hate for all things Baggins, “We hates Bagginses, yes we do, my preciouses…we hates them,.” This might be something that you would hear out of Gollum’s mouth; however, in The Return of the King he leads Frodo and Sam to Mordor, granted he did it for his own gain,  but he did it. In the final book, Gollum develops or shows two personalities, Slinker and Stinker, or Gollum and Sméagol, when forced to swear on the Ring that he will not betray them or kill them. In the end, it is good that Bilbo and Frodo stayed their hands at killing Gollum, for he is reason that the Ring is finally destroyed. To learn his full story, read The Hobbit and the The Lord of the Rings books.