I dont understand a thing about gollum : When Bilbo turns 111 years and he has the ring for 60 years, few weeks (months?) later when we seem him back in Rivendell he is sooo old because the ring was maintaining him "young". But what about gollum ? When we see him meeting Bilbo the first time in the cave, and had the ring for 500 years ( and he was some kind of an hobbit before), then for 60 years he lived without the ring and yet didnt age ! We see him in LOTR as "healthy" (lol) as he was back then.. So I think he should have died without the "spell" from the ring because he was already 500 years old, which is wayyyy more than he was supposed to live. Any thoughts?
Actually it is 18 years between when Bilbo leaves the shire and when Frodo meets him in Rivendell, in the movie it looks like a short amount of time though.
no he wasn't keeping bibo young the time they took to destroy the ring was long so he got aged I think if it's true that the ring have the power of youth why didn't bilbo stayed as he was when he took it from gollum but he was an old man and with a normal age as a hobbit
'Addiction' in this case means abdication of responsibility. Gollum is entirely responsible for his actions. He is wretched and to be pitied, even shown mercy, but a thief and a murderer he is. The ring shows what is there. It does not create it. This 'addiction' device was misapplied with Gollum and ruined Frodo in ROTK. Jackson's Frodo was empty and weird. In time Jackson's versions will be shown to be the limited pantomime they actually are. Tolkien did not believe his work could be made into a film. Jackson proved him wrong and marvellously proved him right at the same time.
