I'm pretty sure Sméagol is just a translation of the "real" name (Trahald or something IIRC), but I dunno if it's an actual name
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Huh, TIL. I guess he was bound to become Gollum with a name like that.
It's almost like he was written by an English professor.
Like frodo's real name is Maura Labingi
Fugeddaboudit.
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Smeagol sounds like a pretty genderless name.
Why not Gandalf? Smeagol was such a dreadful personality after he'd posessed the One Ring....