The One Ring’s corruption of Sméagol’s mind is entirely behind his transformation, as is that first violent act it compelled him to commit. The trinket’s attempts to return to its master failed, for decades, due to Sméagol’s seclusion, as he slowly transformed from a carefree Stoor into the hacking, miserable Gollum. So he retreated, far from his own kind, into the darkness that beckoned him more and more the longer he held the corrupting One Ring. Murder isn’t accepted much of anywhere, and it turns out even Hobbits are pretty strict in their upholding of those “no murder” policies, which left the warped Sméagol with nowhere to go. After stumbling across the One Ring and subsequently murdering his best friend for it, Sméagol was exiled from his home. Sméagol’s transformation from a youthful, naive Stoor to the twisted, broken wreck he becomes started long before the story in The Lord of the Rings begins.
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