Ask Science Fiction

After the ring is destroyed everyone who was alive and carried the ring at one point or another was allowed to eventually sail west to the grey havens with the elves. Technically Gollum was the longest lasting ring bearer possibly even longer than Sauron himself but that aside if he hadn't fallen into the lava and had been saved do you think that he would have been welcomed along with Bilbo and Frodo and Sam to join the elves as reward for bearing the burden of the ring. Do you think he would have aged too quickly to do that like Bilbo did?

Part of me thinks he would have because Gandalf would have argued that he was a tortured soul that deserved some measure of peace. He was chill like that in his "The White" days. But what do you think?