the pale moon was rising lyrics lord of the rings

You have come to journey's end Sleep now. Īccording to Tom Shippey and Thomas Honneger, the poem attempts to retroactively add depth to the anonymous nonsensical nursery rhyme the 'surviving' rhyme could be imagined as an artifact of that larger surviving rhyme from the Third Age.Lay down your sweet and weary head Night is falling. The full title of this version is given in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. The poem is a revision of Tolkien's earlier poem The Cat and the Fiddle which expands upon the traditional English nursery rhyme. Other media Ī musical version of this poem was recorded by the Tolkien Ensemble on their album An Evening in Rivendell. The lyrics are quite different.Ģ012: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: In the Extended Edition of the film, Bofur sings an abridged version in Rivendell while the Company dines with the Elves, and the other Dwarves join in. The line fragment 'And there they brew a beer so brown' was changed to 'And there they made a stew so brown', presumably to censor references to alcohol.Ģ006: The Lord of the Rings (musical): The hobbits sing a version at the Prancing Pony. Speeding up at every line, he becomes nigh unintelligible near the end.Ģ002: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game): Frodo sings an abridged version at the Prancing Pony. With a ping and a pong the fiddle-strings broke!Īnd the little dog laughed to see such fun,ġ978: The Lord of the Rings (1978 film): Frodo sings an abridged version of the song at the Prancing Pony before falling off the table and accidentally slipping on the Ring for the first time, causing him to disappear and startle the patrons.ġ981: The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series): Frodo sings the song in Bree. The cow and the horses stood on their heads

Now quicker the fiddle went deedle-dum-diddle While the landlord shook the Man in the Moon:' He squeaked and sawed and quickened the tune, So the cat on his fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle, When there's good cheer among the guests,īut their master's been and drowned his wits, That the Man in the Moon himself came down

The pale moon was rising lyrics lord of the rings