How many guesses does gollum get

Also they reminded him of days when he had been less lonely and sneaky and nasty, and that put him out of temper. What is more they made him hungry; so this time he tried something a bit more difficult and more unpleasant: It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills.

It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter. Unfortunately for Gollum Bilbo had heard that sort of thing before; and the answer was all round him any way. A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid, he asked to gain time, until he could think of a really hard one.

This he thought a dreadfully easy chestnut, though he had not asked it in the usual words. But it proved a nasty poser for Gollum. He hissed to himself, and still he did not answer; he whispered and spluttered. After some while Bilbo became impatient.

No-legs lay on one-leg, two-legs sat near on three-legs, four-legs got some. It was not really the right time for this riddle, but Bilbo was in a hurry. Gollum might have had some trouble guessing it, if he had asked it at another time. Then he thought the time had come to ask something hard and horrible. This is what he said:. This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

Poor Bilbo sat in the dark thinking of all the horrible names of all the giants and ogres he had ever heard told of in tales, but not one of them had done all these things. After a while Gollum stopped weeping and began to talk. He seemed to be having an argument with himself. The Baggins has got it in its pocketses; the nassty noser has found it, we says. It knows. It knows a way in, it must know a way out, yes. One of the goblinses will put it on, and then no one will see him.

If the Baggins has gone that way, we must go quick and see. Not far now. Make haste! Bilbo hurried after him, still cautiously, though his chief fear now was of tripping on another snag and falling with a noise. His head was in a whirl of hope and wonder. It seemed that the ring he had was a magic ring: it made you invisible! He had heard of such things, of course, in old old tales; but it was hard to believe that he really had found one, by accident.

Still there it was: Gollum with his bright eyes had passed him by, only a yard to one side. On they went, Gollum flip-flapping ahead, hissing and cursing; Bilbo behind going as softly as a hobbit can. Soon they came to places where, as Bilbo had noticed on the way down, side-passages opened, this way and that. Gollum began at once to count them. As the count grew he slowed down, and he began to get shaky and weepy; for he was leaving the water further and further behind, and he was getting afraid.

Goblins might be about, and he had lost his ring. At last he stopped by a low opening, on their left as they went up. Six left, yes! This is the way to the back-door, yes.

He peered in, and shrank back. Goblinses down there. Lots of goblinses. We smells them. Curse them and crush them! We must wait here, precious, wait a bit and see. So they came to a dead stop. Gollum had brought Bilbo to the way out after all, but Bilbo could not get in! There was Gollum sitting humped up right in the opening, and his eyes gleamed cold in his head, as he swayed it from side to side between his knees.

Bilbo crept away from the wall more quietly than a mouse; but Gollum stiffened at once, and sniffed, and his eyes went green. He hissed softly but menacingly. He could not see the hobbit, but now he was on the alert, and he had other senses that the darkness had sharpened: hearing and smell. He seemed to be crouched right down with his flat hands splayed on the floor, and his head thrust out, nose almost to the stone.

Though he was only a black shadow in the gleam of his own eyes, Bilbo could see or feel that he was tense as a bowstring, gathered for a spring. Bilbo almost stopped breathing, and went stiff himself. He was desperate. He must get away, out of this horrible darkness, while he had any strength left.

He must fight. He must stab the foul thing, put its eyes out, kill it. It meant to kill him. No, not a fair fight. He was invisible now. Gollum had no sword. Gollum had not actually threatened to kill him, or tried to yet.

And he was miserable, alone, lost. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped. No great leap for a man, but a leap in the dark. Gollum threw himself backwards, and grabbed as the hobbit flew over him,but too late: his hands snapped on thin air, and Bilbo, falling fair on his sturdy feet, sped off down the new tunnel.

He did not turn to see what Gollum was doing. There was a hissing and cursing almost at his heels at first, then it stopped. All at once there came a bloodcurdling shriek, filled with hatred and despair. Gollum was defeated.

He dared go no further. He had lost: lost his prey, and lost, too, the only thing he had ever cared for, his precious. Now faint as an echo, but menacing, the voice came behind:.

Then there was a silence. But that too seemed menacing to Bilbo. Careful now, or this way will lead you to worse things. The passage was low and roughly made. It was not too difficult for the hobbit, except when, in spite of all care, he stubbed his poor toes again, several times, on nasty jagged stones in the floor. Soon the passage that had been sloping down began to go up again, and after a while it climbed steeply.

That slowed Bilbo down. But at last the slope stopped, the passage turned a corner, and dipped down again, and there, at the bottom of a short incline, he saw, filtering round another corner-a glimpse of light. Not red light, as of fire or lantern, but a pale out-of-doors sort of light. Then Bilbo began to run. Scuttling as fast as his legs would carry him he turned the last corner and came suddenly right into an open space, where the light, after all that time in the dark, seemed dazzlingly bright.

Really it was only a leak of sunshine in through a doorway, where a great door, a stone door, was left standing open. Bilbo blinked, and then suddenly he saw the goblins: goblins in full armour with drawn swords sitting just inside the door, and watching it with wide eyes, and watching the passage that led to it. They were aroused, alert, ready for anything.

He was a hobbit, though not of the Shire. He belonged among the Stoor hobbits of the river-folk near the Gladden Fields. Riddle: What is large , yet never grows ; has roots that cannot be seen ; and is taller than trees? Riddle: Never resting, never still; moving slowly from hill to hill; it does not walk, run or trot; all is cool where it is not.

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Second, the cave crayfish don't eat much. They just find stuff that filters through the ground into the cave. There's not much of this stuff to eat and that's why these cave crayfish are rare. Oh, I just made up the part about what these crayfish eat. I really don't know. Assumptions To start this problem, I need to get some values. Here are some things we need: Cave temperature - T c. This is a complete guess. The only thing I have to go on is that Bilbo says the water is cold when he accidentally touches the lake.

Gollum's operating body temperature - T g. I have this feeling that hobbits are a lot like humans. Since Gollum used to be hobbit-like, he could have a hobbit-like body temperature. But he isn't a hobbit. He has lived in that mountain for quite a long time. Ok, let's assume a hobbit is about 1 meter tall. This is right around half the height of a human. What about the mass though? I would think this would be less than half.

Actually, I have done this before with estimating the mass of The Hulk. I will skip the details and just give a value of about 20 kg. I think that is way too low, but I'm sticking with it for now. Heat capacity of Gollum - C g. I guess this would be around that of water with a value of 4. Amount of energy from consuming one average sized fish - E f. I am just going to have to look this up.

This random site puts grams of raw fish at KJoules. Let's just say the average underground lake fish has a mass of grams. That means that 1 consumed fish would be 2. See, it isn't so scary to just make crazy guesses. It's fun. This is an energy transfer between two objects in contact. Energy is transferred from the object with the higher temperature to the object with the lower temperature.

For Gollum, this would mostly be an interaction between him and the air since he is warmer than the air.