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作词 : JRR Tolkien |
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作曲 : JRR Tolkien |
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Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. |
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I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. |
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He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. |
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He had a little boat, and he rowed about quite quietly on the lake; |
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for lake it was, wide and deep and deadly cold. |
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He paddled it with large feet dangling over the side, |
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but never a ripple did he make. Not he. |
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He was looking out of his pale lamp-like eyes for blind fish, |
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which he grabbed with his long fingers as quick as thinking. |
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He liked meat too. Goblin he thought good, when he could get it; |
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but he took care they never found him out. |
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He just throttled them from behind, if they ever came down alone anywhere near the edge of the water, while he was prowling about. |
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They very seldom did, for they had a feeling that something unpleasant was lurking down there, |
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down at the very roots of the mountain. |
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They had come on the lake, when they were tunnelling down long ago, and they found they could go no further; |
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so there their road ended in that direction, |
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and there was no reason to go that way—unless the Great Goblin sent them. |
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Sometimes he took a fancy for fish from the lake, |
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and sometimes neither goblin nor fish came back. |
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Actually Gollum lived on a slimy island of rock in the middle of the lake. |
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He was watching Bilbo now from the distance with his pale eyes like telescopes. |
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Bilbo could not see him, but he was wondering a lot about Bilbo, |
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for he could see that he was no goblin at all. |
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Gollum got into his boat and shot off from the island, while Bilbo was sitting on the brink altogether flummoxed and at the end of his way and his wits. |
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Suddenly up came Gollum and whispered and hissed: |
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“Bless us and splash us, my precioussss! |
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I guess it’s a choice feast; |
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at least a tasty morsel it’d make us, gollum!” |
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And when he said gollum he made a horrible swallowing noise in his throat. |
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That is how he got his name, though he always called himself ‘my precious’. |
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The hobbit jumped nearly out of his skin when the hiss came in his ears, |
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and he suddenly saw the pale eyes sticking out at him. |
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“Who are you?” he said, thrusting his dagger in front of him. |
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“What iss he, my preciouss?” whispered Gollum |
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(who always spoke to himself through never having anyone else to speak to). |
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This is what he had come to find out, for he was not really very hungry at the moment, only curious; |
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otherwise he would have grabbed first and whispered afterwards. |
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“I am Mr. Bilbo Baggins. I have lost the dwarves and I have lost the wizard, and I don’t know where I am; |
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and I don’t want to know, if only I can get away.” |
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“What’s he got in his handses?” said Gollum, looking at the sword, which he did not quite like. |
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“A sword, a blade which came out of Gondolin!” |
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“Sssss” said Gollum, and became quite polite. |
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“Praps ye sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my preciousss. |
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It likes riddles, praps it does, does it?” |
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He was anxious to appear friendly, at any rate for the moment, |
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and until he found out more about the sword and the hobbit, whether he was quite alone really, |
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whether he was good to eat, and whether Gollum was really hungry. |
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Riddles were all he could think of. Asking them, and sometimes guessing them, |
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had been the only game he had ever played with other funny creatures sitting in their holes in the long, long ago, |
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before he lost all his friends and was driven away, alone, and crept down, down, into the dark under the mountains. |
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“Very well,” said Bilbo, who was anxious to agree, |
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until he found out more about the creature, whether he was quite alone, |
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whether he was fierce or hungry, and whether he was a friend of the goblins. |
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“You ask first,” he said, because he had not had time to think of a riddle. |
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So Gollum hissed: |
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What has roots as nobody sees, |
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Is taller than trees, |
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Up, up it goes, |
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And yet never grows? |
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“Easy!” said Bilbo. “Mountain, I suppose.” |
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“Does it guess easy? It must have a competition with us, my preciouss! |
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If precious asks, and it doesn’t answer, we eats it, my preciousss. |
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If it asks us, and we doesn’t answer, then we does what it wants, eh? |
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We shows it the way out, yes!” |
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“All right!” said Bilbo, not daring to disagree, and nearly bursting his brain to think of riddles that could save him from being eaten. |
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Thirty white horses on a red hill, |
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First they champ, |
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Then they stamp, |
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Then they stand still. |
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That was all he could think of to ask—the idea of eating was rather on his mind. |
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It was rather an old one, too, and Gollum knew the answer as well as you do. |
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“Chestnuts, chestnuts,” he hissed. “Teeth! teeth! my preciousss; |
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but we has only six!” Then he asked his second: |
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Voiceless it cries, |
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Wingless flutters, |
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Toothless bites, |
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Mouthless mutters. |
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“Half a moment!” cried Bilbo, who was still thinking uncomfortably about eating. |
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Fortunately he had once heard something rather like this before, |
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and getting his wits back he thought of the answer. |
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“Wind, wind of course,” he said, and he was so pleased that he made up one on the spot. |
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“This’ll puzzle the nasty little underground creature,” he thought: |
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An eye in a blue face |
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Saw an eye in a green face. |
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“That eye is like to this eye” |
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Said the first eye, |
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“But in low place |
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Not in high place.” |
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“Ss, ss, ss,” said Gollum. He had been underground a long long time, |
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and was forgetting this sort of thing. |
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But just as Bilbo was beginning to hope that the wretch would not be able to answer, |
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Gollum brought up memories of ages and ages and ages before, |
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when he lived with his grandmother in a hole in a bank by a river, |
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“Sss, sss, my preciouss,” he said. “Sun on the daisies it means, it does.” |
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But these ordinary above ground everyday sort of riddles were tiring for him. |
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Also they reminded him of days when he had been less lonely and sneaky and nasty, and that put him out of temper. |
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What is more they made him hungry; |
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so this time he tried something a bit more difficult and more unpleasant: |
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It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, |
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Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. |
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It lies behind stars and under hills, |
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And empty holes it fills. |
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It comes first and follows after, |
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Ends life, kills laughter. |
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Unfortunately for Gollum Bilbo had heard that sort of thing before; |
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and the answer was all round him any way. |
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“Dark!” he said without even scratching his head or putting on his thinking cap. |
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, |
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Yet golden treasure inside is hid, |
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he asked to gain time, until he could think of a really hard one. |
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This he thought a dreadfully easy chestnut, though he had not asked it in the usual words. |
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But it proved a nasty poser for Gollum. |
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He hissed to himself, and still he did not answer; he whispered and spluttered. |