As in the novel, Gollum is a small but memorable part of The Hobbit, an obstacle for Bilbo Baggins to overcome on his hero's journey. The animated version has a much more amphibian appearance than ...

The filler, however, hides a number of terrific sequences from Tolkien's original novel that ... Dark" entails Bilbo's discovery of the One Ring, and his initial encounter with Gollum, who ...

In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit novels ... of the Rings, Bilbo compares the One Ring's negative effects to butter being spread too thin. This leads to Gollum's ...