Why is Humpty Dumpty usually drawn as an egg? Never once in the nursery rhyme is he described as an egg.

[c=#4C0073]because the image of all the Kings horses and all the Kings men trying to put him put together again would be awfully traumatic to young children.[/c]

i think the Story is about a King that was too high on his Horse and he fell badly and lost his place as King

This is one of those useless pieces of information in my head but, from my understanding, the poem was first written as a riddle with the answer being "an egg."

Nursery rhymes tended to be unnervingly dark. A lot of them have hidden meanings that were clever ways to insult powerful figures and such. I guess the egg was just a way to mask it's darker meaning

That's an astute observation, and I have no idea *why* he's depicted as an egg! 🤔

He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described so.

Professor David Daube suggested in The Oxford Magazine of 16 February 1956 that Humpty Dumpty was a "tortoise" siege engine, an armoured frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War.

Geez that's deep as shit yo