What Am I?

"Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail, never clinking."


One of Gollum's riddles from 'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)




This little tiddler resides in my bathroom.  Although he's a handmade and hand decorated ceramic, I thought he looked a bit plain hanging on the magnolia wall.  So.....  I initially sprinkled some effects on the image with Abstract Thursday in mind, but in the end I couldn't bear to make him too unrecognisable.  He's been through three different online photo editors - great fun to experiment with colours, textures and a bit of fairy dust!