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Poems and Tales of Middle-Earth:
(illustration by John Howe) |
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Goblins's "welcome" song:
"
Clap! Snap! the black crack!
Grip, grab! Pinch, nab!
And down down to Goblin-town
You go, my lad!
Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs!
Pound, pound, far underground!
Ho, ho! my lad!
Swish, smack! Whip crack!
Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat!
Work, work! Nor dare to shirk,
While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh,
Round and round far underground
Below, my lad!"
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Goblins's nasty song:
"Fifteen birds in five firtrees,
their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze!
But, funny little birds, they had no wings!
O what shall we do with the funny little things?
Roast'em alive, or stew them in a pot;
fry them, boil them and eat them hot?
Burn, burn tree and fern!
Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch
To light the night for our delight,
Ya hey!
Bake and toast'em, fry and roast'em!
till beards blaze, and eyes glaze;
till hair smells and skins crack,
fat melts, and bones black
in cinders lie
beneath the sky!
So dwarves shall die,
and light the night for our delight,
Ya hey!
Ya-harri-hey!
Ya-hoy!"
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The Lord of the Rings
Prelude. The Hobbit
Quotes from Tolkien's Novel
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| The Journey: Misty Mountains and Edge of the Wild. |
"Of course he gave a very loud yell, as loud a yell as a hobbit can give, which is
surprising for their size.
Out jumped the goblins, big goblins, great ugly-looking goblins, lots of goblins." |
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"They did not hate dwarves especially, no more than they hated
everybody and everything [...] and anyway, goblins don't care who they catch, as long as it is done smart and secret,
and the prisoners are not able to defend themselves." |
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" 'What did I tell you,' said Gandalf laughing. 'Mr Baggins has more about him
than you guess.' He gave Bilbo a queer look from under his busy eyebrows, as he said this, and the hobbit wondered
if he guessed at the part of his tale he had left out." |
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"The wizard, to tell the truth, never minded explaining his cleverness more than once." |
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" 'Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!', he [Bilbo] said, and it became a proverb,
though we now say 'out of the frying-pan into the fire' in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.
'Up the trees quick!' cried Gandalf [...] You would
have laughed (from a safe distance), if you had seen the dwarves sitting up in trees with their beards dangling down,
like old gentlemen gone cracked and playing at being boys." |
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"But all night he [Bilbo] dreamed of his own house and wandered in his sleep
into all the different rooms looking for something that he could not find nor remember what it looked like." |
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" 'Get up lazybones,' he said, 'or there will be no breakfast left for you.'
Up jumped Bilbo. 'Breakfast!' he cried. 'Where is breakfast?'
'Mostly inside of us,' answered the other dwarves." |
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