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Bilbo lost his immortality but likely saved his soul, while Gollum wasn't just going to fade away.English film actor, director and author Andy Serkis is known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), the eponymous King Kong in the 2005 film, Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015). The seeming discrepancy lies within those particulars. That would move him far closer to the shadow realm than Bilbo: essentially immortal but not yet permanently enslaved to Sauron's will. He obsessed about it constantly and was prepared to go to any length to get it back. It was key to his survival in the Misty Mountains, where he would hunt goblins for food and otherwise need to avoid attention. Gollum, conversely, used the Ring copiously and often for centuries. That left him comparatively untouched by the Ring's influence, though it exacted a price as his true age caught up to him at last when he finally, reluctantly surrendered it. He pulled it out only when he wished to avoid someone - notably his sour relations, the Sackville-Baggins - or to play a prank as he did during his birthday party at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Bilbo didn't use the Ring very often.
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