Precious

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A name given to the [[One Ring]] by [[Gollum]]. The word had been used by [[Isildur]] when he explained why he couldn't destroy it ("It is ''precious'' to me, though I buy it with great pain") [[Bilbo]] also used it, before he left on his journey, a sign that told [[Gandalf]] of the Ring's control.
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Sméagol

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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]].]]
'''Sméagol''' ([[Trahald]]) was a [[Hobbit]] of [[Stoors|Stoor-kind]] who lived on the banks of the [[Anduin]] in the later [[Third Age]]. He was an inquisitive Hobbit who was interested in roots and beginnings. 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]].

==Origin of the name==
[[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]]:
{{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 }}

See more information [[Gollum#Name & Pronunciation|here]].
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[[Category:Stoors]]

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