(3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973 / Orange Free State)

poet John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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Troll Sat Alone on His Seat of Stone


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Submitted: Friday, January 03, 2003
Edited: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Oxford University Press HarperCollins Houghton Mifflin   Christopher Tolkien


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  • Paddy Harris (11/24/2008 8:07:00 AM)

    I agree that its a fun bit of verse, but it wasn't sung by Tom Bombadil, it was said by Sam when they came across Bilbo's trolls'.

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  • Mette Hansen (8/13/2008 2:38:00 PM)

    This is one of my favourite poems by Tolkien. Tom Bombadil is also my fav character in Lord of the Rings ;) try reading it out loud and yell the two words.. you know like in verse one: say -...for meat was hard to come by.
    Then yell: DONE BY! GUM BY!
    and do it with all the verses. So fun, and it makes you think that Tom was an old crackhead!

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