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Originally Posted by whswhs
Gollum is a hobbit: That is, a halfling. He's half the scale of a man, or SM -2. ST tends to be proportional to height, which argues for ST 5. I'll stipulate that he's strong, despite being wiry, but his strength tends to show up in things like grasping and strangling; I'd call it either Arm ST or Lifting ST, maybe +1 or +2. ST 8 is just way too high.
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Tolkien's orcs, Gollum's main victims, are probably SM-1. And we mostly "see" Gollum from a hobbit's perspective in the narrative. From the perspective of a (Western) man, he'd look puny and not really very dangerous. ST 8 probably is too high.