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 ...

78 years before Gollum met Frodo and Sam, he had an encounter with a different hobbit that very nearly turned deadly. Bilbo Baggins stumbled into Gollum's cave after escaping Goblin-town in The ...