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| [[Image:Peter Jackson's The Return of the King - 0001.jpg|thumb|250px|''Sméagol'' played by [[Andy Serkis]] in [[Peter Jackson's The Return of the King]].]]
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| '''Sméagol''' ([[Trahald]]) was a [[Hobbit]] of [[Stoors|Stoor-kind]] who lived on the banks of the [[Anduin]] in the later [[Third Age]]. His friend [[Déagol]] came upon the [[One Ring]], but Sméagol murdered Déagol and took the Ring. He was eventually exiled by his people, and crept into the roots of the [[Misty Mountains]], where he became the creature of the dark better known as [[Gollum]].
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| ==Origin of the name==
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| [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] explained in his [[Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings]] the origin of the name ''Sméagol'' in the lemma on [[smials]]:
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| {{quote|'''Smials'''. A word peculiar to hobbits (not Common Speech), meaning 'burrow'; leave unchanged. It is a form that the Old English word '''smygel''' 'burrow' might have had, if it had survived. The same element appears in Gollum's real name, '''Sméagol'''.|Tolkien }}
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| See more information [[Gollum#Name & Pronunciation|here]].
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| [[Category:Hobbits]]
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