Bilbo Would Have Been Corrupted By
In this and in taking the final leap over Gollum and out of the cave, Bilbo demonstrates a bravery that he did not know he possessed. He also demonstrates a sense of ethics when he decides not to kill Gollum because of his unfair advantages of invisibility and a weapon.
Bilbo could easily kill Gollum, but he doesn't. In part, this is because he doesn't have all the information about Gollum—he doesn't know that Gollum was going to kill him—but just as much he spares Gollum's life because he's kind and sympathizes with the weak and pitiable.
Once the Ring was gone, the unnatural influence that had kept him alive for 500 years would likewise be gone. He would have perished very quickly — perhaps within hours or days. The mental trauma of knowing that the Ring was gone forever might itself be too much for him to handle.
Gollum was weaker than Bilbo; the ring completely controlled him from the get-go. So, the major differences were Gollum's weakness, and his living conditions which made him anti-social and changed his appearance due to the absence of light. Bilbo definitely was affected by The Ring, just not to the same extent.
The first is that Bilbo is a hobbit, and as such, is particularly difficult to manipulate or corrupt. Hobbits have a natural resistance to the influence of the ring, because they are fully content in their simple lives and have no desires for power or war.
Bilbo doesn't significantly age until after the ring is destroyed. There is very little in the book that would indicate that he aged any quicker just because the ring was no longer in his possession.
He had already celebrated his 131st birthday, becoming the oldest Hobbit in the history of Middle-earth. As a mortal, he died in the West. While sailing west, Bilbo composed a last poem looking back on Middle-earth in farewell.
Without Gollum, Frodo Would Have Had To Die At Mount Doom
The only way to destroy the Ring would be to fall in with it— which is precisely what Gollum did. If Gollum had been killed all those years previous, he wouldn't have been there to wrestle the One Ring away from Frodo and fall to his death.
Bilbo baffles Gollum with the question, “What have I got in my pocket?,” which is, of course, not a true riddle at all.
How did Bilbo know his knife was an elvish blade, too? It glowed, showing goblins were near–but not too near. 4. Identify Gollum.
What would happen if Bilbo Baggins never met Gollum and never found the One Ring at all? A goblin would eventually have found the One Ring. Then there would have been a pretty little bloodbath as one goblin after another killed to get it, until it finally ended up on the hand of an orc they were all afraid of.
Therefore, the Ringwraiths were unable to pursue him or sense the ring even when he wore it, because they were too weak, and also unaware that they should be seeking it.
Hobbits are simple creatures and do not wish for much, so there is nothing for the Ring to use against a hobbit. Frodo is the hobbit that is corrupted the most next to Gollum and Bilbo, which is why he is unable to throw the Ring into the fire.
The only reason the Nazgul maybe didn't chase Bilbo was perhaps that they were busy readying Mordor for Sauron's big comeback, and that Sauron was getting ready to engage the White Council.
Frodo and Bilbo were comfortable and well off until T.A. 3001. At this time, Bilbo threw an enormous party to celebrate his 111th birthday, and Frodo's 33rd, the date of Frodo's coming of age. At this party Bilbo gave his farewell speech, and made his long-planned "disappearance" and withdrawal from the Shire.
The ages of his characters differ wildly; Gollum is almost 600 years old, while Elrond, the elf, is several thousand years old, and Gandalf the Grey – and later the White – is immortal (for display reasons, both are thus not mentioned here).
That's easy. Gollum survived because he was needed by the author to cause the ring to fall into the crack of doom to it's destruction (and to antagonize and guide Frodo and Sam, and show Frodo and Faramir's mercy, and Bilbo's pity, and to prove that even the wisest cannot see all ends).
So at the time of LOTR, Frodo as a hobbit would be 51, but as a human would be 27.9 years old.
He died at the age of 210, after 122 years as king. The graves of the hobbits Merry and Pippin (who had died in Gondor 58 years earlier) were set beside his. He was succeeded on the throne by his son, Eldarion. Arwen, heartbroken by the loss of her husband, died shortly afterwards in Lothlórien.
Bilbo did in fact make it as far as the Lonely Mountain, back to visit his friends who still live in Erebor after their quest to reclaim their homeland 60 years earlier was successful and they managed to rid the golden halls of Smaug the dragon.
While the previous 19 rings were crafted with the help of the Elves, the final ring, the 'One Ring to rule them all,' was crafted by Sauron alone; with the ability to dominate the other rings, the One Ring was made with some of Sauron's own power, in order to make it more powerful.
Frodo looks as young as they do because in the books years have passed between Bilbo's party when Gandalf gave him the ring and left and when he came back to tell him to take the ring and run. So Frodo's had the ring for a while to slow his aging.
"Gollum avoided turning into a wraith by a combination of two factors: He didn't use the Ring much, as DVK noted. Gollum used to wear it first, till it tired him; and then he kept it in a pouch next his skin, till it galled him; and now usually he hid it in a hole in the rock. ...