Gollum Top 10 lists of "Motion Capture Performances" and "Villains Destroyed by the Power they Sought". Serkis once again played Gollum in the prequel film "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", released in 2012. In the film, Gollum drops the Ring while killing a goblin, rather than having lost the Ring by the time Bilbo finds it. Gollum also appears in "The Hunt for Gollum", the independently-produced 2009 prequel to the Jackson films directed by Chris Bouchard. Bouchard's CGI Gollum is directly inspired by Gollum in the Jackson films. In Canada, Gollum was portrayed by Michael Therriault in the three-hour stage production
The Fellowship of the Ring the decision to publish "The Lord of the Rings" in three volumes was made, Tolkien had hoped to publish the novel in one volume, possibly also combined with "The Silmarillion". However, he had proposed titles for the individual six sections. Of the two books that comprise what became "The Fellowship of the Ring" the first was to be called "The First Journey" or "The Ring Sets Out". The name of the second was "The Journey of the Nine Companions" or "The Ring Goes South". The titles "The Ring Sets Out" and "The Ring Goes South" were used in the "Millennium