But this newly described cave-dwelling, eyeless, daddy longlegs needed a more sinister name to capture its essence. Researchers called it Smeagol, after the creeping, pale Lord of the Rings character.

SAO PAULO, Nov. 18 (UPI) --Researchers in Brazil named a newly discovered harvestman species after Smeagol, the pathetic bottom-dweller from Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings trilogy. Harvestmen are ...

Scientists have discovered a spider in Brazil so scary they named it after the "Lord of the Rings” character Smeagol. Writing in the journal ZooKeys, researchers said the new species of troglobitic ...

Gollum wasn’t always a sick and twisted individual. As seen in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings novels and their cinematic adaptations, Gollum was once a Stoorish Hobbit named Sméagol. However, ...

Called after Tolkien's character from the 'Lord of the Rings' series, a new eyeless harvestman species was found to crawl in a humid cave in southeastern Brazil. Never getting out of its subterranean ...

An entire video game starring Gollum, the miserable wretch of a creature that serves as a minor antagonist in The Lord of the Rings, sounds like an unpleasant experience when you first hear about it.

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If you’re anything like me, when you first heard that a game set in the Lord of the Rings universe following the exploits of Smeagol was being developed, you were skeptical. Though vital to the story ...