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[LoTR] If Golum survived the destruction of the ring (that is, didn't jump in with it), would he regain any semblance of sanity now that it lost its control over him? Or would he be driven even more insane?
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When the One Ring was destroyed, Bilbo greatly accelerated in age, as the effect of the Ring on prolonging his life was removed. He still *lived*, as the Ring had not completely consumed him, and he had been saved from becoming a creature of it due to being removed from it.

Similarly, the weight on Frodo's soul from the Bearing and the Ringwraith's Blade were still present after the Ring was destroyed. Frodo was healed, but never returned to be *whole*, until he sailed to the West.

If Gollum / Smeagol had survived the Destruction of the One Ring, he likely *wouldn't*, as it were — he would age hundreds upon hundreds of years, the one thing he cared for and obsessed over would be destroyed, and so he would die a mortal death.

— But even the wisest cannot see all ends.