Gollum retorted, "You don't have any friends ... expressed his frustration in the following scenes, such as when Sam "ruin[ed]" the rabbit that he had caught by cooking it, there were no signs ...

“It does center on Gollum/Smeagol, so it’s a little bit of an origin story going on, but when you delve into it, as you do with anything Professor Tolkien wrote, you see the layers and layers ...