Caveat lector, sometimes these are animals and sometimes food. Fellow scholars exploring fish in the Hobbit must judge for themselves whether each instance is about a comestible. Almost all of them are in Chapter 5, just as we would wish them to be.
- 05.011 fish whose fathers swam in,
- 05.011 also there are other things more slimy than fish.
- 05.012 He was looking out of his pale lamp-like eyes for blind fish,
- 05.012 Sometimes he took a fancy for fish from the lake,
- 05.012 and sometimes neither goblin nor fish came back.
- 05.050 a fish jumped out
- 05.051 Fish!
- 05.051 fish!’ he cried.
- 05.051 It is fish!’
- 05.054 talking of fish,
- 05.054 Fish on a little table,
- 05.087 and tired of fish.
- 05.128 cold fish,
- 14.007 Anything from floods to poisoned fish.
- 14.018 and poisoned fish,
- 16.018 That was no fish!’