The Ring's corruption forms

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Raynor, I'm not so sure with what you present. Not speaking of the inner struggle between keeping and tossing the Ring, but the idea of "Gollum the Great", I believe, took shape only as a response to the humiliation and wrong treatment he suffered from everyone since he once again came to the "outside world": Sauron, Aragorn, Sam. And in response, the little spark of the idea to be the ruler in turn ignited in him, the idea to make revenge on all these folks in return for the treatment of "poor preciouss Gollum". This hatred for people around him will have no need to grow or even to appear in the underground cave where he was alone. After all, he probably felt similar about his countrymen when he was expelled from the Stoor village, but as we know, he did not (and the Ring did not make him to) make revenge on them, become "Lord Sméagol" - whatever you imagine under the term (and not speculating whether it would or wouldn't be successful), but he went to hiding.