Var kom Gollums båt ifrån?

Jag tror inte att det finns ett kanonsvar (även om jag är glad att bli bevisad fel). Jag har alltid antagit att han byggt en båt av coracle-typ av huder (Orc skin?) Och andra bitar. Efter allt växte han upp bredvid Storfloden och fiskade ofta, så det är inte otänkbart att han kunde bygga en.

Canon

Kanoniskt finns det inget svar i böckerna. Han har bara en båt.

He had a little boat, and he rowed about quite quietly on the lake

The Hobbit: Chapter 5 - Riddles in the Dark

gissningar

Gollum gjorde det

Gollum är en Stoor (en ras av hobbit eller hobbit-liknande riverside dwellers). Det verkar som om de är helt kapabla att göra egna båtar från färska material.

'Long after, but still very long ago, there lived by the banks of the Great River on the edge of Wilderland a clever-handed and quiet-footed little people. I guess they were of hobbit-kind; akin to the fathers of the fathers of the Stoors, for they loved the River, and often swam in it, or made little boats of reeds.

Fellowship of the Ring: Chapter 2 - The Shadow of the Past

Gollum stal det

The Great Goblin skickar regelbundet sina minions för att få fisken tillbaka från sjön. Eftersom de vet att det finns vatten där nere, är det knappast en fantasin som man skulle ta med en rå båt med dem eller materialet att piska upp.

They had come on the lake, when they were tunnelling down long ago, and they found they could go no further; so there their road ended in that direction, and there was no reason to go that way-unless the Great Goblin sent them. Sometimes he took a fancy for fish from the lake, and sometimes neither goblin nor fish came back.

The Hobbit: Chapter 5 - Riddles in the Dark

Films

I Hobbit-filmtrilogin konstruerades Gollums coracle av goblinskinn och ben (samt kvistar och skrot av goblinskinn)

Props may often have a reference point in our world while, at the same time, having some aspect to their design or construction that is uniquely Middle-earthly. One such example would be Gollum's coracle. 'It is.' says Paul [Tobin], 'a small one-man boat in the ancient style traditionally used in parts of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The significant difference, however, is that Gollum's coracle happens to made out of the skin and bones of his Goblin victims!'

Limited availability of Goblin body-parts meant that the prop department had to simulate those gruesome materials as well as making it possible for Gollum to use it in order to paddle across his underground lake.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Official Movie Guide

och

Gollum’s coracle is made of bits of Goblin skin, bones and a few twigs. He has very limited materials down there so he's made quite a serviceable little vessel with what he had at hand. It’s unclear in the book exactly what his boat was made of or how it got there, but this felt to us like a good, practical alternative to something more traditional. (Alan Lee: Concept Art Director)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Chronicles I: Art & Design***