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The Ring Wraiths are what's left of the nine human kings that were given rings of power by Sauron, in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Gollum is a Close relative to the hobbits who gets changed by the influence of the ring.
At the end of the Third Age hobbits had settled in the Shire, and in Bree-land (where they lived alongside a human population), both in Eriador (a northwestern region of Middle-earth). The oldest known homelands of the hobbits were in the nothern valley of the Anduin River earlier in the Third Age. There also was at least one small settlement of hobbits left in the Anduin valley as recent as 500 years before the War of the Ring, where Sméagol/Gollum was born.
Gollum comes from people similar to hobbits. Before he became addicted to the ring, he was a simple person who liked fishing.Gollum was a hobbit living on the banks of the Anduin. He was a very good fisher and was very deft and cunning even then.
They are both hobbits, or at least Gollum was closely related. They were both used by the ring. They both lose a bit of their souls to the ring. And the ring gives them both unusual longevity. Gollum and Bilbo also appear to speak a similar dialect, or at least know the same language enough to communicate.