One more riddle

[mneme]

This is an easy one:

What I killed for enslaved me.
Whom I tried to kill stole it from me.
Whom I tried to steal it from, I served,
And in the end, I saved him.
Who am I?

Comments

[nightface.livejournal.com]

You really must be in a riddle mindset to raise the specter of the old riddle game.

What has it got in it's pockets?

[selki.livejournal.com]

Is that a frog in your throat?

or is it fishhhhhhhh?

[animated-max.livejournal.com]

Winnie the Pooh!

Killed bees for honey, ended up enslaved by his own hunger

Etc.

[simreeve.livejournal.com]

Fafnir?

[marcmagus]

*frown* Lancelot?

[mneme]

BTW, a new, or old, rule.

If you're actually answering the riddle and want to get credit, you kinda have to answer it, rather than giving a riddling answer that may, or may not be intended as the answer.

None of the attempts to answer this before this mark are correct.

Why, Gollum, of course

[bigbrotherinlaw.livejournal.com]

As aluded to above.

It refers to The Ring, Bilbo and Frodo respectively.

Re: Why, Gollum, of course

[mneme]

But of course.
And yeah, there were two answers (at least) that could have been thinly veiled correct answers, but since people were still asking, I figured it was better to get someone to post a clear answer.