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** [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]
* [[The Power of Friendship]]
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* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Went from a timid gardener who had never wandered further than a few miles from home to maiming giant spiders and beating orcs in a fight.
** Lampshaded when he's beating up goblins with a frying pan in Moria, about halfway between the two: "I think I'm getting the hang of this!"
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* [[Accidental Hero]]▼
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Becomes a Type IV in The Two Towers before slipping back to his old ways.▼
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type II.▼
* [[Breakout Character]]: Was essentially a [[One-Scene Wonder]] in [[The Hobbit]]. Here, he's a ''([[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|if not the]])'' big attraction.▼
* [[Cain and Abel]]
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]▼
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"▼
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Possibly]].▼
* [[Chronic Villainy]]▼
* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: In the Jackson films, Sam never completely trusts him even when he's loyal to Frodo. [[Properly Paranoid|When he begins plotting in earnest, though]]...▼
** Actually, in the extended edition there's a scene toward the end of ''The Two Towers'' where Sam ''does'' apparently start to trust Gollum in earnest, saying that he's being "very decent". And it's ''just'' before Gollum decides to go back to plotting Frodo and Sam's deaths, making this a case of [[Dramatic Irony]], and making Sam's fury upon overhearing Gollum's scheming later even more understandable.▼
▲* [[Breakout Character]]: Was essentially a [[One-Scene Wonder]] in [[The Hobbit]]. Here, he's a ''([[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|if not the]])'' big attraction.
* [[Iconic Characters]]: Even people who haven't seen the book or film are familiar with Gollum, if only through [[Popcultural Osmosis]] or his role as childhood [[Nightmare Fuel]] in ''[[The Hobbit]]''.▼
* [[Man Child]] / [[Psychopathic Manchild]]▼
* [[The Corruption]]
* [[The Dark Side]]
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]▼
* [[The Determinator]]
* [[Famous Last Words]]: "Precious!"▼
* [[Foil]]▼
** [[Shadow Archetype]]: Gollum is a shadow to both Bilbo and Frodo. He is to some extent a shadow to Sam.▼
* [[Gollum Made Me Do It]]: [[Trope Namer]].▼
▲* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]
* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]▼
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]▼
* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]
▲* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]
▲* [[Hero Antagonist]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Possibly]].
* [[Trademark Favourite Food]]: Fisssh.▼
▲* [[Iconic Characters]]: Even people who haven't seen the book or film are familiar with Gollum, if only through [[Popcultural Osmosis]] or his role as childhood [[Nightmare Fuel]] in ''[[The Hobbit]]''.
* [[Serkis Folk]]: [[Trope Codifier]] (in the Jackson-films)▼
* [[I'm Melting]]▼
* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: And how.▼
▲* [[Accidental Hero]]
▲* [[Anti-Hero]]: Becomes a Type IV in The Two Towers before slipping back to his old ways.
▲* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: "Even Gollum may have something yet to do..."▼
* [[This Is Your Brain on Evil]]▼
* [[Invisible Jerkass]]
▲* [[Famous Last Words]]: "Precious!"
▲* [[I'm Melting]]
▲* [[Gollum Made Me Do It]]: [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]
* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]▼
▲* [[Man Child]] / [[Psychopathic Manchild]]
* [[
▲* [[Catch Phrase]]: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"
* [[Not So Different]]: From a hobbit once, or from Frodo under the power of the Ring.▼
* [[Cower Power
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Five Hundred Years Old]]
▲* [[Foil]]
▲* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: In the Jackson films, Sam never completely trusts him even when he's loyal to Frodo. [[Properly Paranoid|When he begins plotting in earnest, though]]...
▲** [[Shadow Archetype]]: Gollum is a shadow to both Bilbo and Frodo. He is to some extent a shadow to Sam.
▲** Actually, in the extended edition there's a scene toward the end of ''The Two Towers'' where Sam ''does'' apparently start to trust Gollum in earnest, saying that he's being "very decent". And it's ''just'' before Gollum decides to go back to plotting Frodo and Sam's deaths, making this a case of [[Dramatic Irony]], and making Sam's fury upon overhearing Gollum's scheming later even more understandable.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]
▲* [[Not So Different]]: From a hobbit once, or from Frodo under the power of the Ring.
▲* [[Serkis Folk]]: [[Trope Codifier]] (in the Jackson-films)
* [[Monster Sob Story]]
▲* [[Spanner in the Works]]: "Even Gollum may have something yet to do..."
* [[Starring Special Effects]]
▲* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]
▲* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: And how.
▲* [[This Is Your Brain on Evil]]
▲* [[Trademark Favourite Food]]: Fisssh.
* [[Tragic Villain]]▼
* [[Verbal Tic]]: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"
** [[Verbal Tic Name]]
* [[Freudian Trio]]: Gollum represents the Id.
▲* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type II.
▲* [[Tragic Villain]]
▲* [[Chronic Villainy]]
* [[Was Once a Man|Was Once A Hobbit]]: The prologue of ''Return of the King'' shows us his gradual corruption by the Ring from a normal Hobbit into the creature Gollum. This was done at the insistence of Andy Serkis, who wanted viewers to see there really was an actor behind Gollum.
▲* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]
=== Treebeard (John Rhys-Davies) ===
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