Gollum Kari Väänänen portrayed Gollum () in the 1993 live-action television miniseries "Hobitit" [The Hobbits] that was produced and broadcast by the Finnish network Yle. In Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy, Gollum is a CGI character voiced and performed by actor Andy Serkis. He is smaller than both Frodo and Sam. Barely glimpsed in "" (2001), he becomes a central character in "" (2002) and "" (2003). The CGI character was built around Serkis' facial features, voice, and acting choices. Serkis based the iconic ""gollum"" throat noise on the sound of his cat coughing up hairballs. Using
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