![]() ![]() But The Lord of the Rings is just the tip of the iceberg Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium encompasses thousands of years and dozens of other works, meaning that if you dive in, it may be quite a long time before you make it there and back again. You’ll always remember the first time you encountered these moving, masterfully imagined epics about the struggle between good and evil, the delicate balance of death and immortality, and the addictive danger of power. If you haven’t read the series, how I envy you! Newcomers are in for an unforgettable reading experience. Now, with Amazon's Rings of Power closing the curtain on a successful Season One, a whole new generation of fans have discovered Middle-earth. Peter Jackson’s early aughts film adaptations have only compounded the series’ enduring popularity, inviting new fans into Tolkien’s fantastical world by way of Academy Awards, timeless memes, and astounding filmmaking. Tolkien’s sprawling magnum opus popularized the fantasy genre, galvanized a counterculture movement, and snowballed into a global pop culture phenomenon. ![]() The fact that he was living off of raw fish and other living creatures didn’t help his disfigurement, either, until a time came when nothing remained of the former Smeagol in terms of looks.It’s difficult to imagine a world without The Lord of the Rings. ![]() It’s not clear if it was guilt or the Ring’s own addiction that pushed him down a life of misery and indulgence, but the magical object prolonged his life and slowly twisted his Hobbit body. He went to the Misty Mountains then and lived there for over four hundred years. Smeagol was further corrupted by the Ring’s influence, and thus cast out of the village by his Hobbit kin. Smeagol suggested that Deagol should make a gift of the Ring to him for his birthday, but when Deagol resisted, his friend - already far into the grip of its magical temptation - choked him to death. On his 33rd birthday, he and his friend Deagol went fishing in the river, where they came upon the One Ring. He was a Hobbit of Stoorish descent and lived in the Vales of Anduin. Smeagol was born in the 2430th year of the Third Age, some 600 years before the events of The Lord of the Rings. ![]()
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