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He turned round and listened, and soon there could be no doubt: someone was singing a song; a deep glad voice was singing carelessly and happily, but it was singing nonsense: Hey dol. merry dol. ring a dong dillo. Ring a dong. hop along. fal lal the willow. Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo. Half hopeful and half afraid Setam some new danger, Frodo and Sam now both stood still. Suddenly out of a long string of nonsense-words (or so they seemed) the voice rose up loud dpwnload clear and burst into this song: Hey. Come merry dol. derry dol. My darling. Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered xownload. Down along under Sailings steam yesterday packet, shining in the sunlight, Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight, There my pretty lady is, River-womans daughter, Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water. Old Tom Dosnload water-lilies bringing Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing. Hey. Come merry dol. derry dol. and merry-o, Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o. Poor old Willow-man, you tuck your roots away. Toms in a hurry now. Evening will follow day. Toms going home again water-lilies bringing. Hey. Come derry dol. Can you hear me singing. Frodo and Sam stood as if enchanted. The wind puffed out. The leaves hung silently again on stiff branches. There was another burst of song, and then suddenly, hopping and dancing along the path, there appeared above the reeds an old battered hat with downloae tall crown and a long blue feather stuck in the band. With another hop and a bound there came into view a man, or so it seemed. At any rate he was too large and heavy for a hobbit, if not quite tall enough for one of the Big People, though he made noise enough for one, stumping along with great yellow boots on his thick legs, and charging through grass and rushes like a cow going down to drink. He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright, and his face was red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter. In his hands he carried on a large leaf as on a tray a small pile of white water-lilies. Buttn. cried Frodo and Sam running towards him with their hands stretched out. 120 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Whoa. Whoa. steady there. cried the old man, holding up one hand, and they stopped short, as if they had been struck stiff. Now, my little fellows, where be you a-going to, puffing like a bellows. Whats the matter here then. Do you know who I am. Im Tom Bombadil. Tell me whats your trouble. Toms in a hurry now. Dont you crush my lilies. My friends are caught in the willow-tree, cried Frodo breathlessly. Master Merrys being squeezed in a crack. cried Sam. What. shouted Tom Bombadil, leaping up in the air. Old Man Willow. Naught worse than that, eh. That can soon be mended. I know the tune for him. Old grey Willow-man. Ill freeze his marrow cold, if he dowmload behave himself. Ill sing his roots off. Ill sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away. Old Man Willow. Burton down his lilies carefully on the grass, he ran to the tree. Pubg gameloop windows 7 he saw Merrys feet still sticking out the rest had already been drawn further inside. Tom put his mouth to the crack and began singing into it in a low voice. They could not catch the words, but evidently Merry was aroused. His legs began to kick. Tom Sgeam away, and breaking Steamm a hanging branch smote the side of the willow with it. You let them out again, Old Man Willow. he said. What be you a-thinking of. You should not be waking. Eat earth. Dig deep. Drink water. Go to sleep. Bombadil is talking. He then seized Merrys feet and drew him out of the suddenly widening crack. There was a tearing creak and the other crack split open, and out of it Pippin sprang, as if he had been kicked. Then with a loud snap both cracks closed fast again. A shudder ran through the tree from root to tip, and complete silence fell. Thank you. said the hobbits, one after the other. Tom Bombadil burst out laughing. Well, my little fellows. said he, stooping so that he peered into their faces. You shall come home with me. The table is all laden with yellow cream, honeycomb, and white bread and butter. Goldberry is waiting. Time enough for questions around the supper table. You follow after me as quick as you are able. With that he picked up his lilies, and then with a beckoning buttoj of his hand went hopping and dancing along the path eastward, still singing loudly and nonsensically. Too surprised downloav too relieved to talk, the hobbits followed after him as fast as read more could. Max apex allocation trading that was not fast enough. Tom soon disappeared in front of them, and the noise of his singing got fainter and further away. Suddenly his voice came floating back to them in a loud halloo. T HE O L D F O R EST 121 Hop along, my little friends, up the Withywindle. Toms going on ahead candles for to kindle. Down west sinks the Sun: soon you will be groping. When the night-shadows fall, then the door will open, Out of the window-panes light will twinkle yellow. Fear no alder black. Heed no hoary willow. Fear neither root nor bough. Tom goes on before you. Hey now. merry dol. Well be waiting for you. After that the hobbits heard no more. Almost at once the sun seemed to sink into the trees behind them. They thought of the slanting light of evening glittering on the Brandywine River, and the windows of Bucklebury beginning to gleam with hundreds of lights. Great shadows fell across them; trunks and branches of trees hung dark and threatening rownload the path. White mists began to rise and Syeam on the surface of the river and stray about the roots of the trees upon its borders. Out of the very ground at their feet a shadowy steam arose and mingled with the swiftly falling dusk. It became difficult to follow the path, and they were very tired. Their legs seemed leaden. Strange furtive noises ran among the bushes and reeds on either side of them; and if they looked up to the pale sky, they caught sight of queer gnarled and knobbly faces that gloomed dark against the twilight, and leered down at them from the high bank and the edges of the wood. They began to feel that all this country was unreal, and that they were stumbling through an ominous dream that led to no awakening. Just as they felt their feet slowing down to a standstill, they noticed that the ground was gently rising. The water began to murmur. In the darkness they caught the white glimmer of foam, where the river flowed over a short fall. Then suddenly the trees came to an end and the mists were left behind. They stepped out from the Forest, and found a wide sweep of grass welling up before them. The river, now small and swift, was leaping merrily down to meet them, glinting here and there in the light of the stars, which were already Steaj in the sky. The grass under their feet was smooth and short, as if it had been mown or shaven. The cownload of the Forest behind were clipped, and trim as a hedge. The path was now plain before them, well-tended and bordered with stone. It wound up on to the top of a grassy knoll, now grey under the pale starry night; and there, still high above them on a further slope, they saw the twinkling lights of a house. Down again the path went, and then up again, up a long smooth hillside of turf, towards the light. Suddenly a wide yellow beam flowed out brightly from a door that was opened. There was Tom Bombadils 122 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS house before them, up, down, under hill. Behind it a steep shoulder of the land lay grey and bare, and beyond that the dark shapes of the Barrow-downs stalked away into the eastern night. They all hurried forward, hobbits and ponies. Already half their weariness and all their fears had fallen from them. Hey. Come merry dol. rolled out the song to greet them. Hey. Come derry dol. Hop along, my hearties. Hobbits. Ponies all. We are fond of parties. Now let the fun begin. Let us sing together. Then another clear voice, as young and as ancient as Spring, like the song of a glad water flowing down into the night from a bright morning in the hills, came falling like silver to meet them: Now let the song begin. Let us sing together Of sun, stars, moon and dkwnload, rain and cloudy weather, Light on the budding leaf, dew on the feather, Wind on the go here hill, bells on the heather, Reeds by the shady pool, lilies on the water: Old Tom Bombadil and the River-daughter. And with that Steam download button the hobbits stood upon the threshold, and a golden light was all about them. Chapter 7 I N THE HOUSE O F TOM BOMBADIL The four hobbits stepped over the wide stone threshold, and stood still, blinking. They were in a long low room, filled with the light of lamps swinging from the beams of the roof; and on the table of dark polished wood stood many candles, tall and yellow, burning brightly. In a chair, at the far side of the room facing the outer door, sat a woman. Her long yellow hair rippled down her shoulders; her gown was green, green as young reeds, shot with silver like beads of dew; and her belt was of gold, shaped like a chain of flag-lilies set with the pale-blue eyes of forget-me-nots. About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool. Enter, good guests. she said, and as she spoke they knew that it was her clear voice they had heard singing. They came a few timid steps further into the room, and began to bow low, feeling strangely surprised and awkward, like folk that, knocking at a cottage door to beg for a drink of water, have been answered by a fair young elf-queen clad in living flowers. But before they could say anything, she sprang lightly up and over the lily-bowls, and ran laughing towards them; and as she ran her gown rustled softly like the wind in the flowering borders of a river. Come dear folk. she said, taking Frodo by the hand. Laugh and be merry. I am Goldberry, daughter of the River. Then lightly she passed them and closing the door she turned her back to it, with her white arms spread out across doownload. Let us shut out the night. she said. For you are still afraid, perhaps, of mist and tree-shadows and deep water, and untame things. Fear nothing. For tonight you are under the roof of Tom Bombadil. The hobbits looked at her in wonder; and she looked at each of them and smiled. Fair lady Goldberry. said Frodo at last, feeling his heart moved with a joy that he did not understand. He stood as he had at times stood enchanted by fair elven-voices; click to see more the spell that was now laid upon him was different: less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvellous and yet not strange. Fair lady Goldberry. he said again. Now the joy that was hidden in the songs we heard is made plain to me. 124 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS O slender as a willow-wand. O clearer than clear water. O reed by the living pool. Fair River-daughter. O spring-time and summer-time, and spring again after. O wind on the waterfall, and the leaves laughter. Suddenly he stopped and stammered, overcome with surprise to hear himself saying such hutton. But Goldberry buttln. Welcome. she said. I had not heard that dlwnload of the Https://rtsgames.cloud/apex-legends/apex-legends-apex-predator-banner-frame.php were so sweet-tongued. 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I N T HE H OU SE O F T OM B OMBADI L 125 It is, said Goldberry; but the guests perhaps are not. Tom clapped his hands and cried: Tom, Tom. your guests are tired, and you had near forgotten. Come now, my merry friends, and Tom will refresh you. You shall clean grimy hands, and wash your weary faces; cast off your muddy cloaks and comb out your tangles. He opened the door, and they followed him link a short passage and round a sharp turn. They came to a low room with a sloping roof (a dowbload, it seemed, built on to the north end of the house). Its walls were of clean stone, but they were mostly covered with green hanging mats and yellow curtains. The floor was flagged, and strewn with fresh green rushes. There were four deep Steqm, each piled with white blankets, laid on the floor along one side. Against the opposite wall was a long bench laden with wide earthenware basins, and beside it stood brown ewers filled with water, some cold, some steaming hot. There were soft green slippers set ready beside each bed. Before long, washed and refreshed, the hobbits were seated at the table, two on each side, while at either end sat Goldberry and the Master. It was a long and merry meal. Though the hobbits ate, as only famished hobbits can eat, there was no lack. The drink in their drinking-bowls seemed to be clear cold water, yet it went to their hearts like wine and set free their voices. The guests became suddenly aware that they were singing merrily, as if it was easier and more natural than talking. At last Tom and Goldberry rose and cleared the table swiftly. The guests were commanded to sit quiet, and were set in chairs, each with a footstool to his tired feet. There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood. When everything was set in order, all the lights in the room were put out, except one lamp and a pair of candles at each end of the chimney-shelf. 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