[00:00.000] 作词 : JRR Tolkien
[00:00.030] 作曲 : JRR Tolkien
[00:00.60]Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature.
[00:05.82]I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was.
[00:09.76]He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.
[00:17.54]He had a little boat, and he rowed about quite quietly on the lake;
[00:21.92]for lake it was, wide and deep and deadly cold.
[00:26.91]He paddled it with large feet dangling over the side,
[00:30.40]but never a ripple did he make. Not he.
[00:33.38]He was looking out of his pale lamp-like eyes for blind fish,
[00:37.85]which he grabbed with his long fingers as quick as thinking.
[00:41.29]He liked meat too. Goblin he thought good, when he could get it;
[00:47.05]but he took care they never found him out.
[00:49.20]He just throttled them from behind, if they ever came down alone anywhere near the edge of the water, while he was prowling about.
[00:56.29]They very seldom did, for they had a feeling that something unpleasant was lurking down there,
[01:02.35]down at the very roots of the mountain.
[01:05.74]They had come on the lake, when they were tunnelling down long ago, and they found they could go no further;
[01:10.41]so there their road ended in that direction,
[01:12.97]and there was no reason to go that way—unless the Great Goblin sent them.
[01:18.25]Sometimes he took a fancy for fish from the lake,
[01:21.49]and sometimes neither goblin nor fish came back.
[01:25.81]Actually Gollum lived on a slimy island of rock in the middle of the lake.
[01:30.02]He was watching Bilbo now from the distance with his pale eyes like telescopes.
[01:35.42]Bilbo could not see him, but he was wondering a lot about Bilbo,
[01:39.31]for he could see that he was no goblin at all.
[01:42.86]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.
[01:50.92]Suddenly up came Gollum and whispered and hissed:
[01:54.50]“Bless us and splash us, my precioussss!
[01:58.62]I guess it’s a choice feast;
[02:01.13]at least a tasty morsel it’d make us, gollum!”
[02:05.10]And when he said gollum he made a horrible swallowing noise in his throat.
[02:09.84]That is how he got his name, though he always called himself ‘my precious’.
[02:15.24]The hobbit jumped nearly out of his skin when the hiss came in his ears,
[02:18.31]and he suddenly saw the pale eyes sticking out at him.
[02:21.34]“Who are you?” he said, thrusting his dagger in front of him.
[02:24.24]“What iss he, my preciouss?” whispered Gollum
[02:27.52](who always spoke to himself through never having anyone else to speak to).
[02:32.68]This is what he had come to find out, for he was not really very hungry at the moment, only curious;
[02:38.03]otherwise he would have grabbed first and whispered afterwards.
[02:41.98]“I am Mr. Bilbo Baggins. I have lost the dwarves and I have lost the wizard, and I don’t know where I am;
[02:48.79]and I don’t want to know, if only I can get away.”
[02:51.60]“What’s he got in his handses?” said Gollum, looking at the sword, which he did not quite like.
[02:57.17]“A sword, a blade which came out of Gondolin!”
[02:59.67]“Sssss” said Gollum, and became quite polite.
[03:03.77]“Praps ye sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my preciousss.
[03:08.04]It likes riddles, praps it does, does it?”
[03:11.84]He was anxious to appear friendly, at any rate for the moment,
[03:15.16]and until he found out more about the sword and the hobbit, whether he was quite alone really,
[03:20.53]whether he was good to eat, and whether Gollum was really hungry.
[03:24.59]Riddles were all he could think of. Asking them, and sometimes guessing them,
[03:28.95]had been the only game he had ever played with other funny creatures sitting in their holes in the long, long ago,
[03:34.82]before he lost all his friends and was driven away, alone, and crept down, down, into the dark under the mountains.
[03:41.03]“Very well,” said Bilbo, who was anxious to agree,
[03:44.15]until he found out more about the creature, whether he was quite alone,
[03:48.17]whether he was fierce or hungry, and whether he was a friend of the goblins.
[03:52.96]“You ask first,” he said, because he had not had time to think of a riddle.
[03:57.55]So Gollum hissed:
[03:59.56]What has roots as nobody sees,
[04:02.32]Is taller than trees,
[04:04.44]Up, up it goes,
[04:06.43]And yet never grows?
[04:08.92]“Easy!” said Bilbo. “Mountain, I suppose.”
[04:11.72]“Does it guess easy? It must have a competition with us, my preciouss!
[04:17.16]If precious asks, and it doesn’t answer, we eats it, my preciousss.
[04:21.96]If it asks us, and we doesn’t answer, then we does what it wants, eh?
[04:27.25]We shows it the way out, yes!”
[04:30.00]“All right!” said Bilbo, not daring to disagree, and nearly bursting his brain to think of riddles that could save him from being eaten.
[04:37.95]Thirty white horses on a red hill,
[04:40.59]First they champ,
[04:41.83]Then they stamp,
[04:42.52]Then they stand still.
[04:44.22]That was all he could think of to ask—the idea of eating was rather on his mind.
[04:48.60]It was rather an old one, too, and Gollum knew the answer as well as you do.
[04:52.09]“Chestnuts, chestnuts,” he hissed. “Teeth! teeth! my preciousss;
[04:58.13]but we has only six!” Then he asked his second:
[05:02.49]Voiceless it cries,
[05:04.76]Wingless flutters,
[05:06.96]Toothless bites,
[05:09.02]Mouthless mutters.
[05:11.76]“Half a moment!” cried Bilbo, who was still thinking uncomfortably about eating.
[05:16.20]Fortunately he had once heard something rather like this before,
[05:19.86]and getting his wits back he thought of the answer.
[05:22.46]“Wind, wind of course,” he said, and he was so pleased that he made up one on the spot.
[05:27.92]“This’ll puzzle the nasty little underground creature,” he thought:
[05:31.51]An eye in a blue face
[05:33.24]Saw an eye in a green face.
[05:35.70]“That eye is like to this eye”
[05:37.45]Said the first eye,
[05:38.69]“But in low place
[05:39.70]Not in high place.”
[05:41.63]“Ss, ss, ss,” said Gollum. He had been underground a long long time,
[05:46.61]and was forgetting this sort of thing.
[05:48.95]But just as Bilbo was beginning to hope that the wretch would not be able to answer,
[05:51.59]Gollum brought up memories of ages and ages and ages before,
[05:54.94]when he lived with his grandmother in a hole in a bank by a river,
[05:59.01]“Sss, sss, my preciouss,” he said. “Sun on the daisies it means, it does.”
[06:07.17]But these ordinary above ground everyday sort of riddles were tiring for him.
[06:11.97]Also they reminded him of days when he had been less lonely and sneaky and nasty, and that put him out of temper.
[06:19.04]What is more they made him hungry;
[06:20.96]so this time he tried something a bit more difficult and more unpleasant:
[06:25.63]It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
[06:30.00]Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
[06:33.94]It lies behind stars and under hills,
[06:37.25]And empty holes it fills.
[06:40.16]It comes first and follows after,
[06:43.80]Ends life, kills laughter.
[06:48.87]Unfortunately for Gollum Bilbo had heard that sort of thing before;
[06:53.55]and the answer was all round him any way.
[06:55.93]“Dark!” he said without even scratching his head or putting on his thinking cap.
[07:01.86]A box without hinges, key, or lid,
[07:04.17]Yet golden treasure inside is hid,
[07:06.40]he asked to gain time, until he could think of a really hard one.
[07:11.30]This he thought a dreadfully easy chestnut, though he had not asked it in the usual words.
[07:16.72]But it proved a nasty poser for Gollum.
[07:19.84]He hissed to himself, and still he did not answer; he whispered and spluttered.