For the many years that he possessed the One Ring of Power, the creature Gollum was cursed with a long and pitiable life. Driven from his home, he became a wretched soul, a sniveling, gurgling fiend without a friend in the world except that which he called his 'precious'. The Ring tortured and consumed him, breaking his fragile mind until he became two distinct entities. Smeagol was his name from long ago, and what little remained of him cowered in his soul from the cruel councel of Gollum, his new Ring-consumed self.