Category: frodo
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They also keep a horned cow as proud as any queen;But music turns her head like ale,And makes her wave her tufted tail and dance upon the green....So the cat on his fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle, a jig that would wake the dead:He squeaked and sawed and quickened the tune,While the landlord shook the Man of the Moon: 'It's after three' he said.They rolled the Man slowly up the hill and bundled him into the Moon,While his horses galloped up in rear,And the cow came capering like a deer, and a dish ran up with the spoon.Now quicker the fiddle went deedle-dum-diddle; the dog began to roar,The cow and the horses stood on their heads;The guests all bounded from their beds and danced upon the floor.With a ping and a pong the fiddle-strings broke! the cow jumped over the Moon,And the little dog laughed to see such fun,And the Saturday dish went off at a run with the silver Sunday spoon.The round Moon rolled behind the hill, as the Sun raised up her head.She hardly believed her fiery eyes frodoman-in-the-moonover-the-moonthe-dishBut the Queen Arwen said: 'A gift I will give you. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him now when he departs to the Havens; for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so I have chosen, both the sweet and the bitter. But in my stead you shall go, Ring-bearer, when the time comes, and if you then desire it. If your hurts grieve you still and the memory or your burden is heavy, then you may pass into the West, until all your wounds and weariness are healed. But wear this now in memory of Elfstone and Evenstar with whom your life has been woven!'And she took a white gem like a star that lay upon her breast hanging upon a silver chain, and she set the chain around Frodo's neck. 'When the memory of the fear and the darkness troubles you,' she said, 'this will bring you aid. book-quotefrodothe-lord-of-the-ringsj-r-r-tolkien
