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Originally Posted by Adversary
Seems like he should have higher health, fit, or some other type of endurance advantage. Gollum endures tremendous hardship, from being tortured by Sauron, to traveling alone all across the wild. When he is with Frodo and Sam, he keeps going when even they (hardy hobbits) are dead on their feet, while eating less than they are.
Needs some kind of area or secret knowledge--paths of the wastes and into Mordor.
I'd say he also has some kind of pitiable looks, probably switchable, and perhaps fast talk or acting as well. He's able to keep Frodo fooled, and to get out of trouble by groveling for his life a few times. At other times he's quite intimidating.
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It's not that Frodo was quite 'fooled'. Gollum/Smeagol was genuinely torn two ways, his pitiable-ness was partly real, alongside his very real evil.