No he didn’t. The ring and gollum fell into the pit of fire, the overall hero, Sam, pulled him back at the last minute.
dang.
I am getting to the point I can’t trust my memory anymore. When I watched that movie I was stunned at the ending and yelled at the TV “No! He falls in with the ring!” I could’ve sworn the last chapter of the book was sam going back to the shire by himself.
Ya know what else? I read the hobbit too. And I can’t remember a single dam thing about it. It is a total and complete blank.