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I see a lot of people doing mermay , and it looks like fun, but I don’t really feel like drawing mermaids. I am however very excited about gollum game finally releasing on May 25th, so I’ve decided that Sméagol will be an honorary mermaid for a few days (25 of the prompts or as many as I can be bothered to do).
He is sort of kind of like one in that he is in the water a lot and smells questionable. Also, in most visual depictions, he dresses like a mermaid (by wearing next to nothing) Also, the organizers of the official mermay will never find out about me putting their prompt list to untoward purposes and can’t stop me anyway.
The first prompt was ‘self portrait’. Gollum owns a tooth-sharpening rock according to The Hobbit- this is a quick detail that quite possibly might not be something you’re supposed to think about, but I enjoy thinking about it. Sméagol presumably had ordinary hobbit teeth at some point, so he:
a) decided his teeth weren’t sharp enough
b) took proactive steps to change this, by inventing an improvised dental modification procedure, using a rock
c) doesn’t have many teeth anymore but I guess the ones that are left are pretty efficient
The moral of the story is when you get bored enough sitting under a mountain alone all that time, you start knocking your own teeth out. Anyway, here, he’s drawing an idealized version of himself with the perfect teeth

Description

I see a lot of people doing mermay , and it looks like fun, but I don’t really feel like drawing mermaids. I am however very excited about gollum game finally releasing on May 25th, so I’ve decided that Sméagol will be an honorary mermaid for a few days (25 of the prompts or as many as I can be bothered to do).
He is sort of kind of like one in that he is in the water a lot and smells questionable. Also, in most visual depictions, he dresses like a mermaid (by wearing next to nothing) Also, the organizers of the official mermay will never find out about me putting their prompt list to untoward purposes and can’t stop me anyway.
The first prompt was ‘self portrait’. Gollum owns a tooth-sharpening rock according to The Hobbit- this is a quick detail that quite possibly might not be something you’re supposed to think about, but I enjoy thinking about it. Sméagol presumably had ordinary hobbit teeth at some point, so he:
a) decided his teeth weren’t sharp enough
b) took proactive steps to change this, by inventing an improvised dental modification procedure, using a rock
c) doesn’t have many teeth anymore but I guess the ones that are left are pretty efficient
The moral of the story is when you get bored enough sitting under a mountain alone all that time, you start knocking your own teeth out. Anyway, here, he’s drawing an idealized version of himself with the perfect teeth