Gollum/Smeagol Pumpkin (The Lord of the Rings)

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious?  It's ours, it is, and we wants it.  The thieves, the thieves, the filthy little thieves.  Where are they with my Precious?  Curse them!  We hates them.

This year, I carved Gollum/Sméagol (as portrayed by Andy Serkis in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit).  I used my own pattern on a natural pumpkin.

It took just over seven hours to carve (not including prep
time or pattern making time).