Many factors went into Frodo's ability to resist the One Ring for so long, but it's not certain that Bilbo would've been able to do the same.

78 years before Gollum met Frodo and Sam, he had an encounter with a different hobbit that very nearly turned deadly. Bilbo Baggins stumbled into Gollum's cave after escaping Goblin-town in The ...

This moment also serves as an unsettling foreshadowing of Gollum, aka Sméagol (Andy Serkis), who Frodo will encounter in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Bilbo’s sudden, grotesque ...

As in the novel, Gollum is a small but memorable part of The Hobbit, an obstacle for Bilbo Baggins to overcome on his hero's journey. The animated version has a much more amphibian appearance than ...

Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession ...