Farmer Giles of Ham - A Dragon' s Tail

It was still custom for Dragon's Tail to be served up at the King's Christmas Feast; and each year a knight was chosen for the duty of hunting. He was supposed to set out upon St. Nicholas´Day and come home with a dragon's tail not later than the eve of the feast. But for many years now the Royal cook had made a marvelous confection, a Mock Dragon's Tail of cake and almond paste, with cunning scales of hard icing-sugar [...]. The Mock Dargon's Tail was eaten after dinner and everybody said (to please the cook) that it tasted much better than Real Tail.

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J. R. R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham, p. 114.

Farmer Giles of Ham is my favourite work of the Professor. Most people praise him for tragedy and epic scenery, I praise his humor!
And, since this little story is stuffed with jokes for English language scholars, here is my personal one for the Germans: you may call the cake: "Frankfurter Schwanz"


For this pic I only used brown and blue tones, both for the inked outlines and the watercolor.
Ink and watercolor on hot pressed paper (Leonardo, Hahnemühle).