Pity for a Creature Dark as Darkness: Bilbo’s Encounter with Gollum in “The Hobbit”
Literary & Media Analysis

Pity for a Creature Dark as Darkness: Bilbo’s Encounter with Gollum in “The Hobbit”

  The meeting of Bilbo, the dreadfully and fearfully lost hobbit, and Gollum, a creature “as dark as darkness” (Hobbit 88), their riddle-game and what happens after Gollum loses are among the most iconic scenes of…