Gandalf said something about all this; something along the lines of the Ring magnifies what was done right before it's posession. Gollum killed Deagol right before he took it and the Ring corrupted him utterly and quickly whereas Bilbo began his ownership of the thing with compassion and was not corrupted much by the Ring until his later years.
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WWAHD? (What would a Hobbit do?)
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