― The Silmarillion: of The Rings Of Power And The Third Age § 3, ¶ 5 And much of the srength and will of Sauron passed into that One Ring for the power of the Elven–rings was very great, and that which should govern them must be a thing of surpassing potency and Sauron forged it in the Mountain of Fire in the Land of Shadow. Now the Elves made many rings but Sauron made One Ring to rule All the others, and their power was bound up with it, to be subject wholly to it and to last only so long as it too should last. When the One Ring was forged, Sauron imparted it with a piece of his power and will to rule. The Ring was simply unfortunate enough to be found by Bilbo of all people. Though Gollum was extremely careful with his "precious," it slipped away from him and got lost, presumably because it was trying to return to its creator. It is also important to note that the Ring probably was trying to return to Sauron. During the time that Gollum had it, the Ring was thought to be irrecoverably lost Sauron only started the search when Gollum got captured and told of "Baggins." Since searching for it hadn't commenced, the temptation to use it didn't involve the danger of being found. Frodo's use of the One Ring alerted the servants of Sauron because they were currently watching for it. Frodo, even when in Mordor, was not tempted to give the Ring to its master the struggle was to avoid taking it for himself and using it. Gollum certainly did use the Ring to gain power, but had no intentions of using it to defeat a thought-to-be-nonexistent Dark Lord.Īs far as we know, bearers of the One Ring have never had the temptation to bring it to Sauron. If Gollum had even heard about Sauron, he would think him destroyed there could not possibly be any thought in Gollum's mind about overthrowing Sauron. Sauron' regrowth at Dol Guldur hadn't even been discovered by the White Council until around 200 years before the War of the Ring. When Gollum found the Ring, Sauron was still slowly recovering after his defeat at the end of the Second Age.
First of all, Gollum could not have decided to "gain power and glory by defeating the Dark Lord," because Sauron had minimal power at the time, and was thought to be defeated.
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