L'EVOLUZIONE DELLA LEGGENDA - I. Poesia dalla History of Middle Earth [33] The Root of the Boot da The Return of the Shadow
THE ROOT OF THE BOOT
[original version of the “Troll Song”]
A troll sat alone on his seat of stone,
And munched and mumbled a bare old bone;
And long and long he had sat there lone
And seen no man nor mortal –
Ortal!…