Déagol

Déagol, also known as Nahald, was a Stoor-hobbit of the Gladden Fields. Déagol was the cousin and best friend of Sméagol until his discovery of the Ring.
== Biography ==
Déagol was born some time between TA 2400 and TA 2430. Déagol and Sméagol apparently lived in an extended family under a Matriarch. He became the third bearer of the One Ring, after Isildur, when he found it in the Gladden river (a tributary to the Anduin) with his cousin Sméagol. On Sméagol's birthday in TA 2463 they went fishing (or rather Déagol fished while Sméagol dug in the earth), and a big fish pulled Déagol underwater. It was then that he discovered the One Ring, half-buried in the river-bed. When Sméagol saw the Ring, he stared at it with great desire, and then asked to keep it for his birthday. When his cousin refused, Sméagol became enraged and strangled Déagol to death, hiding the body, which was never found. This deed haunted Gollum for the rest of his life.
Of the Ring's bearers, Déagol carried it for the shortest collective time, possessing it only for no more than a few minutes. By contrast, the next shortest, Samwise Gamgee, carried it for a full day, and all the other Ring-bearers held it for at least a year. Déagol was also the only Ring-bearer never to use the Ring, all the others making use of its gift of invisibility at least once.
It was possible that the Ring had already affected Déagol in a way that made him desire to keep it, explaining his unwillingness to give it to Sméagol.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Chapter II: "The Shadow of the Past"
== Etymology ==
Déagol is in fact an Old English translation of the character's Westron name Nahald. Both names bear the meaning "Apt to hide" or "secretive".The Lord of the Rings, Appendix F, "On Translation"
== In adaptations ==
=== Films ===
Déagol appears in the beginning of Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings, voiced by Anthony Daniels.
Déagol is fully seen in the third installment of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Ringsfilm trilogy, The Return of the King. He is played by New Zealand actor Thomas Robins. In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, only his hand appears, picking up the Ring in the Gladden River.
==== Voice dubbing actors ====
Foreign Language 	Voice dubbing artist
Spanish (Latin America) 	Arturo Mercado Jr
Spanish (Spain) 	Jordi Pons
Portuguese (Brazil) (Television/DVD)	Ivo Roberto
German 	Pierre Franckh
Hungarian 	Gábor Kossuth
Italian (Italy) 	Roberto Ciufoli
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Amharic 	ዸኣጎል
Arabic 	ديغول
Armenian 	Դեագոլ
Belarusian Cyrillic	Деагол
Bengali 	ডেঅগল
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Деагол
Chinese 	德戈
Estonian 	Varglik
Georgian 	დეაგოლი
Greek 	Ντίγκολ
Gujarati 	ડેગોલ
Hebrew 	דיאגול
Hindi 	डेअगोल
Japanese 	デアゴル
Kannada 	ಡಿಯಗೊಲ್
Kazakh 	Деагол (Cyrillic) Deagol (Latin)
Korean 	데아골
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Дэагол
Macedonian Cyrillic	Деагол
Marathi 	डेगोल
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Деагол
Nepalese 	डेअगोल
Pashto 	ضېاګول
Persian 	ضهاگول
Punjabi 	ਡੀਗੋਲ
Russian 	Деагол
Sanskrit 	डेअगोल्
Serbian 	Деагол (Cyrillic) Deagol (Latin)
Sinhalese 	ඩේගෝල්
Tajik Cyrillic 	Деагол
Tamil 	டெஅகொல்
Telugu 	డీగోల్
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Деаґол
Urdu 	دیاگاول
Uzbek 	Деагол (Cyrillic) Deagol (Latin)
Yiddish 	דעאַגאָל
== References ==
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Category:Hobbits
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Category:Bearers of the One Ring