3 thoughts on “Umber hulk – Hulkish”

1. I get what the hulk part of the name means, but what about umber? Is it supposed to be umber-colored?

2. Possibly. It could infer a color; umber has an earth pigment and umber hulks dig in the earth. Umber also comes from umbra, Latin for shadow. It’s a creature that digs in the earth and lives in the shadows? And this is a total stretch, but for me, the word conjures lumber, and I just always imagined an umber hulk as a large lumbering creature.

   I was reading about them on Wikipedia and apparently there is a freshwater aquatic version of an umber hulk called a vodyanoi. The pictures of vodyanoi online have a Lovecraftish feel to them.

3. This is Jeff Goldblum, not Bruce Banner. That fly-man can sell the shit out of apartment finding websites.

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