The Ring And Lord Of The Rings: The Lord Of The Rings

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Tolkien has details that we would not get the answer to the reason Gollum speaks as “We” until the trilogy The Lord of the Rings releases. The Hobbit sets the stage and shows the reader what will happen to anyone who possesses The Ring. The Ring corrupted Gollum who, in matter of fact, was a Hobbit too, before The Ring took over his mind. “The Baggins has go it in its pocketses; the nassty noser has found it, We says”(Tolkien 93). Gollum talks to himself as “We” similer to all the citizens in the book Anthem, however, Gollum has two different personalities, the first named Gollum his corrupted and greedy self, and the second, Sméagol, who was a Hobbit like Bilbo before he found The Ring, which destroyed his