Culture: stoor. Tortured and wrought wretched by the lure of the One Ring, Gollum is a withered, piteous creature. Driven mad and twisted by his loss of the One Ring decades ago, he is compelled to haunt Middle-earth, searching everywhere for the only thing in the world he ever cared for, his precious.
Using the average distances given by NASA, the distances from Earth to Saturn would be: Closest (conjunction) 1,277 million kilometers or 794 million miles Farthest (opposition) 1,576 million kilometers or 979 million miles.
From answers.com: The average distance between the Moon and the Earth is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles). The moon's orbit is not a perfect circle, it is an ellipse; So the distance isn't constant ... there is a minimum and a maximum.