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I fear that Smeagol would have been one nasty Hobbit, even if he had never seen the Ring.
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Quite right, Birdland! I'd forgotten about that when I posted the first time. My friend and I were talking about it later, though. (Now she's threatening to call me at late hours ans hiss "My precioussss..." into the phone! Eeek!)
But, in an odd sort of twist, it seemed that, in his emptiness and wretchedness, Gollum was starting to become a little bit better than he had been before he laid hands on the Ring. Recall how he reacted to seeing Sam and Frodo sleeping in Cirith Ungol. As if he desired something he had never had...
Ah, but therein is the essential tragedy of the corrupted Smeagol. But he never would have attained that which he sought; as he clearly proved shortly after seeing Sam and Frodo sleeping, he was too far gone to know anything more than the wretchedness that was himself. (Urk. Can't write and watch Jeopardy simultaniously!)