Gollum (Sméagol) Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Gollum (Sméagol)? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Gollum (Sméagol) from Lord Of The Rings & The Hobbit and what is the personality traits.
ISFP (4w3)
Gollum (Sméagol) personality type is ISFP, while the Gollum who showed up in The Lord of the Rings movies is an INTP.
So, in the books, Sméagol is a charming, sensitive, and vulnerable creature with a strong moral code. In the movies, he is a vicious, unstable sociopath who is a madman in a cave.
On the other hand, when Gandalf and Aragorn team up to fight Sméagol in Fellowship of the Ring, they use a “Socratic method” to get through to him. This method is a powerful technique for changing people’s minds and behavior. It involves asking questions in a way that doesn’t make the other person feel attacked or attacked by them.
Gandalf and Aragorn used this method to change Sméagol from a dangerous creature into a repentant creature who became a loyal follower of the Fellowship.
So, a Gollum change from a vicious sociopath to a repentant creature is a good example of how the Socratic method can be used to change people’s minds and behavior.
Gollum, also known as Sméagol, was a creature (originally a Stoorish Hobbit) who bore the One Ring. He lived in the Misty Mountains for most of his life. In T.A. 2941 he lost the Ring to Bilbo Baggins. For the rest of his life he sought to recover his "precious" "birthday present". In T.A. 3019 he followed the Fellowship of the Ring and met Frodo Baggins. After leading Frodo into Mordor and betraying him to Shelob he finally seized the Ring in Sammath Naur. In his euphoria he died and destroyed the Ring after falling into the cracks of Mount Doom.
