Sneaking and crawling under fishy stones, “Glip” was the poem’s title, as well as the name of this “slimy little thing.” It was part of a series entitled “Tales and Song of Bimble Bay.”
There’s a small hint, however, that Gollum’s character was based upon one of his own poems from two years prior. This was, of course, where Bilbo met Gollum who “lived on a slimy island in the middle of the lake.” Bilbo Baggins, on a quest which soon saw them separated in the caverners under the mountains. It was the summer of 1930, and on a blank page in a student’s exam book Tolkien had written “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” He soon followed this mysterious little line, allowing it to lead him where it would: to a wizard named Bladorthin and a brood of dwarves whose leader was named Gandalf (there was still a bit of name-shuffling to do). The changes, which we’ll be uncovering today, are as curious as they are drastic. In doing this, he made the two Gollums one. In the original 1937 edition of The Hobbit, Gollum’s motives and demeanor were markedly milder than in Lord of the Rings. In 1951, Tolkien heavily revised his original 1937 version of the “Riddles in the Dark” chapter, completely changing Gollum’s story.
The character of Gollum, as read in The Hobbit, matches up perfectly with the Gollum we know from The Lord of the Rings.
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