Meanings
comparative more Gollumesque · superlative most Gollumesque
- Resembling Gollum, a monster from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth.
Just then Newo noticed something scuttle across Labertha’s stomach. It was sort of small and wiry with a slightly oversized head, Gollumesque if you will.
2003, Charlie Hamilton James, The Matewix, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, page 1822 more examples
He was quivering in the corner, a nasty, scrawny, Gollumesque type creature, scared, spitting, snarling, panting, knowing I was on the attack, a cornered beast!
2009, Ben Gander, OCD & ME, Gander Publications, page 141Crouching down like some maniacal Gollumesque creature, I scrape with a stone the Four Binding Elements (as Lissa called them), basically four triangles, each containing a circle on the cement of the footpath.
2010, Trent Jamieson, Death Most Definite, Orbit, page 191
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