So I was re-watching the Lord of The Rings series for the bazillionth time because I'll never let those selfish women take my virginity, and this time I noticed something odd concerning Smeagol... and a fish!..

Shall we delve further?

In the Return of The King, the opening scene is a flashback of Gollum when he was Smeagol and first found the ring with his friend Deagol. Disregard anything about the ring. It opens with Smeagol and Deagol fishing in a boat. Now I was just gonna skim over it as usual but then I noticed how fuggen skitz they were going over finding a fish.

If we take the fact that Smeagol is, or atleast was, a Stoor hobbit, who were a fisherman type of hobbit, you can sort of see how that sort of reaction when dealing with just a fish can be considered odd and completely over the top.

Stoorish Hobbits mostly inhabited swamp lands. The opening scene doesn't look swampy in the slightest, sure, a bit murky but it's a lake nonetheless. Hmm, peculiar?

I think yes!

It is also revealed that it is Smeagol's Birthday that day so perchance they were taking a trip out to the countryside. It is assumed that the ring has some form of control over living things around it so this just leads to the evidence that the fish was being controlled by The One Ring.

Think about it, for eons it lay waiting for a suitable host who was weak enough but also strong enough to 'carry' it. So maybe the reason they were so surprised at finding a fish is because the ring simply made all other weaker human/orc/goblin/whatever fishermen turn back due to lack of fish.

So say you just caught a fish in the place where there is no fish...

You'd be pretty fucking excited for just doing the impossible

So when the fish brought Deagol down into the lake it was because the fish was under the control of the ring which can also explain why the fish swims directly towards the location of the ring in the swamp.

Deagol brings the ring to shore and meets up with Smeagol and their fight commences for the ring, incited by the ring to find out who would be the stronger of the two and thus more 'worthy'. Smeagol wins and then drives himself 'bird'shit insane. Smeargol ultimately blames the fish for the death of his friend but Gollum makes him hate the idea of friends and just think evil thoughts alla time because Sauron's an evil cracka. But when Smeargol is free to be himself and not under the influence of Gollum thanks to his New Friend Frodo he's seen openly fucking up the day of some fish by smacking them against rocks and generally enjoying just causing them pain and also by eating them right after being plucked from the safety of the water, because he's a sadist towards fish since killing Deagol.

And so I must ask you... Whaaaaaaat is Gollum's favourite thing to eat, abuse, sing about and basically fuck up? (Apart from Samwise)

The Answer?

FISH.

tl;dr The reason Gollum/Smeagol likes to fuck up fish is because he blames them for the death of Deagol.