{"id":1435,"date":"2022-06-11T04:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T08:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/play\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2022-06-11T04:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T08:22:28","slug":"why-was-gollum-obsessed-with-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/play\/games\/why-was-gollum-obsessed-with-the-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Why was Gollum obsessed with the Ring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The One Ring<\/strong> had certain amount of self awareness and self control, as it could change it&#8217;s size to fall off of the person wearing it, as it did with Isildur and <strong>Gollum<\/strong> or use it&#8217;s own innate power to compel the wearer to a degree in order to benefit it&#8217;s return to Sauron.<\/p>\n<h2>Why does Gollum want the Ring in The Hobbit?<\/h2>\n<p>The version of the story given in the first edition became the lie that Bilbo made up to justify his possession of the Ring to the Dwarves and Gandalf. 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