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Matěj Čadil: It is fish! (Bilbo Reppuli keksii vastauksen Klonkun arvoitukseen Hengissä hengittämättä (Hobitti)

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Then he asked:

A live without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.

He also in his turn thought this was a dreadfully easy one, because he was always thinking of the answer. But he could not remember anything better at the moment, he was so flustered by the egg-question. All the same it was a poser for poor Bilbo, who never had anything to do with the water if he could help it. I imagine you know the answer, of course, or can guess it as easy as winking, since you are sitting comfortably at home and have not the danger of being eaten to disturb your thinking. Bilbo sat and cleared his throat once or twice, but no answer came. After a while Gollum began to hiss with pleasure to himself: "Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?" He began to peer at Bilbo out of the darkness.

"Half a moment," said the hobbit shivering. "I gave you a good long chance just now."

"It must make haste, haste!" said Gollum, beginning to climb out of his boat on to the shore to get at Bilbo. But when he put his long webby foot in the water, a fish jumped out in a fright and fell on Bilbo's toes.

"Ugh!" he said, "it is cold and clammy!" – and so he guessed. "Fish! Fish!" he cried. "It is fish!"

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit. Chapter 5: Riddles in the Dark

• Starting #inktober again and once more I want to do it Tolkien-themed. So this is my picture for #inktober2020day1 "Fish". Obviously, the prompt "fish" as related to Tolkien's books immediately associated Gollum, so it was only a question of which scene with him to choose. And I decided for the one where a fish plays the most prominent part in the story, saving Bilbo by suggesting the answer to Gollum's riddle.⁠

But the drawing is way too detailed. I must strive to do things simpler or I won't be able to draw many more... 😆

Do you like my depiction of the scene?⁠ Even if it is too detailed for a daily inktober drawing, I still think had to hasten it up a bit and I think I might redraw it one day to do it more justice.

What do you think? 🙂⁠

• Image size: 2387x2653px 1.82 MB
• Published: Oct 9, 2020

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