His skin was white, no doubt with a pallor increased by dwelling long in the dark, and later by hunger. He evidently had black garments (II 219), and in the “eagle” passage (II 253),10 where it is said that from far above, as he lay on the ground, he would look like “the famished skeleton of some child of Men, its ragged garment still clinging to it, its long arms and legs almost bone-white and bone-thin”. He had a pocket in which he kept the Ring (Hob. But that does not apply to the “black (crawling) shape” (II 219, 220), where he was in moonlight. 83) he was “dark as darkness”: that of course means no more than that he could not be seen with ordinary eyes in the black cavern – except for his own large luminous eyes similarly “the dark shape” at night (I 399, 400). emaciated, not plump and rubbery he had for his size a large head and a long thin neck, very large eyes (protuberant), and thin lank hair. They are described as webby (Hobbit 88), like a swan’s (I. His long hands are therefore more or less right. Gollum was according to Gandalf one of a riverside hobbit people – and therefore in origin a member of a small variety of the human race, although he had become deformed during his long inhabiting of the dark lake. In one of the unpublished Tolkien essays sitting around in the Bodleian library, Tolkien went into some depth about Gollum.
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