THE LORD OF THE RINGS (2)

LORD OF THE RINGS (2)

Three Rings for the Elven-Kings under the sky,

Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the land of Modor where the Shadows lie.

An old man was driving it all alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf. He had a long white beard and bushy eyebrows that suck out beyond the brim of his hat. He was Gandalf the Wizard.

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of the Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-fisrt birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

‘I’m old, Gandalf, I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed!’ he snorted. ‘Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.’

‘I’ve make up my mind, anyway. I want to see mountain again, Gandalf –Mountains; and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet, without a lot of relatives prying around, and string of confounded visitors hanging on the bell. I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily and ever after to the end of his days.’

Bilbo Baggins called it a party, but it was really variety of entertainments rolled into one. Practically everyone near was invited.

After the speech (more or less) came a Speech.

‘My dear people, today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today! eleventy-one years is too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits.’

‘I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you de serve.’

‘I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT.’ He spoke this last word so loudly and suddenly that everyone sat up who still could. ‘I regret to announce that – though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you – this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE’

He stepped down and vanished.

LORD OF THE RINGS (4)

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