TheBanyanTree: LOTRwulf

[Mike Pingleton]

Inspired by the epic Beowulf, and John Hartford's classic song "I Would Not Be
Here".  I only wrote out three verses because, well, it could go on for a long
time.  I have to go to bed some time.

now come hear the tale of a hobbit named Frodo 
a halfling, a hero of epic proportions 
who left his warm hobbit hole under the hillside 
on account of a ring he received from his uncle 
who found it one morning while under a mountain 
he matched wits with Gollum and was rescued by riddles - 
 
now the going of Frodo was goaded by Gandalf 
returned to the Shire to perceive the ring's purpose 
revealed by the presence of fiery letters 
that ran 'round the ring when retrieved from the embers 
not even the wizard would whisper the words there 
the doom of the Dark Lord not foolishly uttered - 
 
the sobered young halfling made ready to travel 
on the road out his door that went on ever onward 
with an eavesdropping gardener by name of Sam Gamgee 
and two more hobytla named Merry and Pippin 
and Fredegar Bolger, who served as a decoy 
deceiving Dark Riders at the house in Crickhollow...