#gollum's riddle

[rankinbass-hobbit]

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[bethanydelleman]

I love how in The Hobbit both Bilbo and Gollum think they've told the easiest riddle ever that even a toddler could solve and they're going to lose the riddle game but they don't realize that one has been underground for over a hundred years and doesn't remember eggs very well or that one doesn't fish and therefore has no idea what "mail never clinking" would refer to.

Gollum being like, "He'll get the fish one, everyone knows about fish."

Bilbo:

(and vice versa with Gollum and the eggs and the sun)

#the hobbit #summer reading interlude #riddle game #bilbo baggins #gollum #jrr tolkien

[facts-i-just-made-up]

What am i?

#lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #gollum #riddles

[theslowmaxx]

🏔️

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[domonicriley]

What has roots that nobody sees,

Is taller than trees,

Up, up it goes,

And yet never grows?

#the hobbit #bilbo baggins #gollum #riddles in the dark #riddles

[phantom-of-the-keurig]

My life is a constant entrapment of tunnels Which tangle and wind and beguile And regardless of where I may tumble or funnel I wonder what’s really worthwhile Sometimes it can seem like a nightmarish dream And I’m falling with nothing to hold Sometimes I get flustered and beaten and blistered Abandoned outside in the cold

uh I’m not sure what this is but it flows really well so

Drop the chorus next

#you do be cooking tho so #reply #I feel like Gollum just stepped into my kitchen to have a game of riddles

[tolkien-feels]

tw// cannibalism

Hello random debate me and my friends are having and was wondering if perhaps you would give an opinion: is Gollum a cannibal?

Because he eats goblins, right, but are they close enough to hobbits to be consideeed cannibalism? Second thing of note is of course his threat to eat Bilbo, implying that he would eat Hobbits (making him an aspiring cannibal) or he has eaten a Hobbit before and is therefore definitely a cannibal

I think so, yes.

Gandalf says, speaking of Gollum in FotR:

The Woodmen said that there was some new terror abroad, a ghost that drank blood. It climbed trees to find nests; it crept into holes to find the young; it slipped through windows to find cradles.

Of course, that's Gandalf reporting a rumor, so not exactly ironclad evidence, but it tracks with how we know Gollum behaves, so I tend to believe it.

Now, these are men's cradles, not hobbits's, but Tolkien says hobbits are closer kin to men than elves or dwarves, so I think it would count as cannibalism, or at least something very close to it. At any rate, I don't think, if Gollum is eating babies and looking forward to eating Bilbo, that he would particularly worry about eating hobbits in general - I think that he doesn't is a simple matter of opportunity. Places where hobbits live tend to have plenty of food and animals, so even if Gollum went to those regions, he'd probably have easier prey than hobbits. But would he have eaten Bilbo if he'd managed to kill him? I have no doubt that he would have, yeah.

I'll also say, though you didn't ask, that "monster that threatens to eat the hero" is a bedtime story staple, and Gollum is a bedtime story monster when Tolkien first writes him. But then when he writes LotR and doubles down on Gollum eating human flesh in a book for adults, suddenly that sounds so much more gruesome and creepy. I've always found that fascinating. I react to Gollum threatening to eat my beloved Bilbo in an "Oh, a fun, nerve-wrecking adventure!" way but I am genuinely creeped out and alarmed by him allegedly eating babies I don't even know. I find that a pretty interesting thing about me as a reader.

#though honestly i find the gollum chapter the scariest in the hobbit #i found it anxiety-inducing when i was 10 and i still do #maybe /this time/ when i read it the riddles will be different and bilbo will lose #who knows #could happen

[bonecouch]

dildo faggins

#the second version of the riddle game is also a lie #bilbo and gollum fucked nasty in that cave #you can guess what kind of ring it really was

[arsonkindacutetho]

This thing all things devours:

Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;

Gnaws iron, bites steel;

Grinds hard stones to meal;

Slays kings, ruins town,

And beats high mountain down.

The Hobbit: Riddles in the dark

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[theworldsoftolkein]

Riddles in the Dark 

#Riddles in the Dark #The Hobbit #gollum #magic rings #rings of power

[trahald-the-burrower]

what has it got in its nasty little pocketses

#i love when he gets angry #so beastial he becomes #id have enjoyed watching him tear the nasty theif up #he knows whats in bagginses pocketses #clever clever #i love the way his voice shakes here #gollum #the hobbit #riddles in the dark #andy serkis #weta digital #hes so realistic looking in the hobbit #ill never get over it

[andata-e-ritorno]

Art by Enrique Rivera

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[bookwormfan1495]

Yes he does the voice.

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[whats-in-a-sentence]

This thing all things devours;

Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;

Gnaws iron, bites steel;

Grinds hard stones to meal;

Slays kings, ruins town,

And beats high mountains down.

"The Hobbit" - J. R. R. Tolkien

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[domonicriley]

This thing all thing devours:

Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;

Gnaws iron, bites steel;

Grinds hard stones to meal;

Slays king, ruins town,

And beats high mountain down.

#the hobbit #tolkien #j r r tolkien #bilbo baggins #gollum #riddles #riddles in the dark

[rptv-tolkien]

The Riddle Game

by Tim Kirk

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