The Stoors: Gollum's Forgotten Hobbit Family | Tolkien Explained
Long before Smeagol became Gollum, his people had already vanished from Middle-earth. Who were the Stoors? In this deep dive we explore Tolkien's most forgotten hobbit kindred - the broad river-folk who built houses of brick, rowed boats, and walked back east into the Gladden Fields where Isildur had lost the One Ring two thousand years before.This Tolkien explained analysis traces the Stoors from their origins in Wilderland through Smeagol's murder of his cousin Deagol on that fateful fishing trip - the killing that set him on the road to becoming Gollum - into the matriarchal clan ruled by…
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