


Gollum did not know that his precious Ring had been found by the Hobbit. The game lasted a long time and it ended when Bilbo asked Gollum what he had in his pocket. His rules were that if he won, he would eat Bilbo, but if Bilbo won Gollum would show him the way out. Bilbo asked Gollum the way out and Gollum replied by challenging him to a riddle game. Gollum wondered aloud how the Hobbit would taste, but Bilbo held up his sword and warned him to back off, telling that he's armed with an elvish blade.

He discovered Bilbo Baggins in his lair one day, having gotten there quite by mistake. Gollum challenges Bilbo to the riddle game He ate fish and the occasional Goblin who stumbled upon his lair. His eyes became pale and nearly unseeing. After discovering the Ring, Gollum lived hundreds of years in solitude in the bowels of a mountain underneath a Goblin settlement, cherishing the only thing he now cared about, the Ring.
