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Ehi Tom Bombadil! Dove mai stai andando?

There his beard dangled long down into the water:

up came Goldberry, the River-woman’s daughter;

pulled Tom’s hanging hair. In he went a-wallowing

under the water-lilies, bubbling and a-swallowing.

‘Hey, Tom Bombadil! Whither are you going?’

said fair Goldberry. ‘Bubbles you are blowing,

frightening the finny fish and the brown water-rat,

startling the dabchicks, and drowning your feather-hat!’

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Il vecchio Tom d’estate sui verdi prati andava

Old Tom Bombadil was a merry fellow;

bright blue his jacket was and his boots were yellow,

green were his girdle and his breeches all of leather;

he wore in his tall hat a swan-wing feather.

He lived up under Hill, where the Withywindle

ran from a grassy well down into the dingle.

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varie versioni hobbit di leggende riguardanti Bombadil

No. I is the earlier piece, and is made up of various hobbit-versions of legends concerning Bombadil. No. 2 uses similar traditions, though Tom’s raillery is here turned in jest upon his friends, who treat it with amusement (tinged with fear); but it was probably composed much later and after the visit of Frodo and his companions to the house of Bombadil.

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Terra di Buck

Nos. 1 and 2 evidently come from the Buckland. They show more knowledge of that country, and of the Dingle, the wooded valley of the Withywindle, {Grindwall was a small port on the north bank of the Withywindle; it was located outside the Barrier and was therefore well guarded and protected by a grind or fence that extended into the water.

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tradizioni degli Uomini che vivevano lungo le coste

The influence of the events at the end of the Third Age, and the widening of the horizons of the Shire by contact with Rivendell and Gondor, is to be seen in other pieces. No. 6, though here placed next to Bilbo’s Man-in-the-Moon rhyme, and the last item.

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tradizioni nella Contea

In the Red Book it is said that No. 5 was made by Bilbo, and No. 7 by Sam Gamgee. No. 8 is marked SG, and the ascription may be accepted. No. 12 is also marked SG, though at most Sam can only have touched up an older piece of the comic bestiary lore of which Hobbits appear to have been fond.

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pezzi più antichi

The Red Book contains a large number of verses. A few are included in the narrative of the Downfall of the Lord of the Rings, or in the attached stories and chronicles; many more are found on loose leaves, while some are written carelessly in margins and blank spaces.

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Avventure di Tom Bombadil

Le avventure di Tom Bombadil (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, 1962) è una raccolta di poesie di J.R.R. Tolkien. Delle 16 poesie contenute nel libro, solo 2 riguardano il personaggio di Tom Bombadil, famoso soprattutto per il suo incontro con Frodo Baggins ne La compagnia dell’anello; in questo libro si narra della sua lotta con il Vecchio Uomo Salice e dell’incontro con la figlia del fiume Baccador.

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È pronto il nostro pranzo?

Una porta si aprì e Tom Bombadil entrò. Non portava più il cappello, e foglie autunnali incoronavano la sua folta capigliatura castana. Rise, e avvicinatosi a Baccador le prese una mano. «Ecco la mia bella dama!», disse, inchinandosi davanti a lei.

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Tom Bombadil è Signore

«Graziosa dama!», disse dopo qualche attimo Frodo. «Perdona, se la mia domanda ti sembrerà stolta, ma potresti dirmi chi è Tom Bombadil?».

«È lui», rispose Baccador, interrompendo i suoi agili movimenti per sorridergli. Frodo la guardò perplesso. «È lui, come avete visto», ella disse in risposta al suo sguardo, «è lui il Messere di bosco, acqua e collina».

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