Why did the ring have such a different effect on Sméagol?Įdit: Now that I'm thinking about it, Bilbo went a bit off the rails near the end, but he never actually hurt someone to protect his ring either. Sam has also seen the ring lots of times, and even kept it for a while, but he didn't try to choke Frodo during their trip. But where it takes quite some time before Frodo starts showing some signs of greed and corruption caused by the ring, it only takes a look at the ring for Sméagol to go completely mental and kill his brother. So Sméagol was actually a Hobbit, just like Frodo and Sam. With men-as opposed to a Harfoot or Fallohide, who sharedĬharacteristics with dwarves and elves, respectively. Specifically, he was a Stoor, a variety of Hobbit that had an affinity Same "kind" - ie race - as the hobbits that Frodo knew. "I guess he was of hobbit-kind" means that he was of the Point of clarification: Smeagol wasn't "hobbit-like", he was actuallyĪ hobbit. I was reading this question and I noticed Daniel Roseman's comment:
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