on the mountain.'
'My lad,' said the troll, 'this bone I stole;
But what be bones that lie in a hole?
Thy nuncle were dead as a lump o' lead,
Before I found his carkis.
Hark'ee! Mark'ee!
Thy nuncle were dead as a lump o' lead,
Before I found his carkis.'
Said John: I doan t see why the likes o thee
Without axin' leave should go makin' free
With the leg or the shin o' my kith and my kin,
So hand the old bone over!
Rover! Trover!
So give me the shin o' my kith and my kin,
And hand the old bone over!'
'For a couple o' pins,' says the troll, and grins,
'I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.
A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet,
And thee shall join thy nuncle!
Sunk well! Drunk well!
A bit o' fresh meat u ill go down sweet,
And thee shall join thy nuncle.'
But just as he thought his dinner was caught,
He found his hands had hold of naught;
But he caught a kick both hard and quick,
For John had slipped behind him.
Mind him! Blind him!
He caught a kick both hard and quick,
For John had slipped behind him.
The troll tumbled down, and he cracked his crown;
But John went hobbling back to town,
For that stony seat was too hard for feet,
And boot and toe u ere broken.
Token! Spoken!
That stony seat was too hard for feet,
And boot and toe were broken.
There the troll lies, no more to rise,
With his nose to earth and his seat to the skies;
But under the stone is a bare old bone
That u as stole by a troll from its owner.
Donor! Boner!
Under the stone lies a broken bone.
That was stole by a troll from its owner.(35)
At the end of the recital Frodo says of Sam: 'First he was a conspirator, now he's a jester. He'll end up by becoming a wizard - or a toad!' - The stone that marked the place where the trolls' gold was hidden is still marked with Old English G and B runes in a circle, and the text remains as in the 'third phase' (VI.360).
Glorfindel now hails Trotter, not as in the previous version with Ai, Du-finnion! but with Ai, dennad Torfir! A short preparatory draft for the passage beginning with Glorfindel's greeting to Frodo (VI.361, FR
p. 222) is found, as follows:
'Hail, and well met at last! ' said the elf-lord to Frodo. 'I was sent from Rivendell to look for your coming. Gandalf feared that you might follow the Road to the Ford.'
'Gandalf has reached Rivendell then?' cried Frodo joyfully.
'More than five days ago,' answered Glorfindel. 'He rode out of the Entish Dales over the Hoarwell springs.'
'Out of the Entish Dales!' exclaimed Trotter.
'Yes,' said Glorfindel, 'and we thought you might come that way to avoid the peril of the Road. Some are seeking you in that region. I alone have come this way. I rode as far as the Bridge of Here the text breaks off. That Glorfindel should have set out after Gandalf reached Rivendell is at variance with the time-schemes (p. 14) and this brief draft must have preceded them. Abandoned in mid-sentence, it was replaced by another very close to what Glorfindel says in FR: he had left Rivendell nine days before; Gandalf had not then come; and Elrond had sent out from Rivendell not on account of Gandalf but because he had had news from Gildor's people - 'some of our kindred journeying beyond the Branduin (which you turned into Brandywine)'. This was taken up into the manuscript of the chapter (without the reference to the hobbits' name for the river: the moment was too urgent for such reflections).(36) It may be that this change in the story came about from the consideration that too little time was allowed for Gandalf's great detour northward through the Entish Dales.
In any case, the time-scheme D reflects the revised text: Glorfindel left Rivendell on 9 October and found Trotter and the hobbits nine days later, on the 18th, while Gandalf and Ham Bolger only reached Rivendell on that same day, having taken a full fortnight from Weathertop.
In the new version, Sam's protective fierceness when Frodo was attacked by pain and swayed is more
'My lad,' said the troll, 'this bone I stole;
But what be bones that lie in a hole?
Thy nuncle were dead as a lump o' lead,
Before I found his carkis.
Hark'ee! Mark'ee!
Thy nuncle were dead as a lump o' lead,
Before I found his carkis.'
Said John: I doan t see why the likes o thee
Without axin' leave should go makin' free
With the leg or the shin o' my kith and my kin,
So hand the old bone over!
Rover! Trover!
So give me the shin o' my kith and my kin,
And hand the old bone over!'
'For a couple o' pins,' says the troll, and grins,
'I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.
A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet,
And thee shall join thy nuncle!
Sunk well! Drunk well!
A bit o' fresh meat u ill go down sweet,
And thee shall join thy nuncle.'
But just as he thought his dinner was caught,
He found his hands had hold of naught;
But he caught a kick both hard and quick,
For John had slipped behind him.
Mind him! Blind him!
He caught a kick both hard and quick,
For John had slipped behind him.
The troll tumbled down, and he cracked his crown;
But John went hobbling back to town,
For that stony seat was too hard for feet,
And boot and toe u ere broken.
Token! Spoken!
That stony seat was too hard for feet,
And boot and toe were broken.
There the troll lies, no more to rise,
With his nose to earth and his seat to the skies;
But under the stone is a bare old bone
That u as stole by a troll from its owner.
Donor! Boner!
Under the stone lies a broken bone.
That was stole by a troll from its owner.(35)
At the end of the recital Frodo says of Sam: 'First he was a conspirator, now he's a jester. He'll end up by becoming a wizard - or a toad!' - The stone that marked the place where the trolls' gold was hidden is still marked with Old English G and B runes in a circle, and the text remains as in the 'third phase' (VI.360).
Glorfindel now hails Trotter, not as in the previous version with Ai, Du-finnion! but with Ai, dennad Torfir! A short preparatory draft for the passage beginning with Glorfindel's greeting to Frodo (VI.361, FR
p. 222) is found, as follows:
'Hail, and well met at last! ' said the elf-lord to Frodo. 'I was sent from Rivendell to look for your coming. Gandalf feared that you might follow the Road to the Ford.'
'Gandalf has reached Rivendell then?' cried Frodo joyfully.
'More than five days ago,' answered Glorfindel. 'He rode out of the Entish Dales over the Hoarwell springs.'
'Out of the Entish Dales!' exclaimed Trotter.
'Yes,' said Glorfindel, 'and we thought you might come that way to avoid the peril of the Road. Some are seeking you in that region. I alone have come this way. I rode as far as the Bridge of Here the text breaks off. That Glorfindel should have set out after Gandalf reached Rivendell is at variance with the time-schemes (p. 14) and this brief draft must have preceded them. Abandoned in mid-sentence, it was replaced by another very close to what Glorfindel says in FR: he had left Rivendell nine days before; Gandalf had not then come; and Elrond had sent out from Rivendell not on account of Gandalf but because he had had news from Gildor's people - 'some of our kindred journeying beyond the Branduin (which you turned into Brandywine)'. This was taken up into the manuscript of the chapter (without the reference to the hobbits' name for the river: the moment was too urgent for such reflections).(36) It may be that this change in the story came about from the consideration that too little time was allowed for Gandalf's great detour northward through the Entish Dales.
In any case, the time-scheme D reflects the revised text: Glorfindel left Rivendell on 9 October and found Trotter and the hobbits nine days later, on the 18th, while Gandalf and Ham Bolger only reached Rivendell on that same day, having taken a full fortnight from Weathertop.
In the new version, Sam's protective fierceness when Frodo was attacked by pain and swayed is more
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