A Walking Song
- "They began to hum softly, as hobbits have a way of doing as they walk along, especially when they are drawing near to home at night. With most hobbits it is a supper-song or a bed-song; but these hobbits hummed a walking-song (though not, of course, without any mention of supper and bed)."
- ― "Three is Company", The Fellowship of the Ring
A Walking Song was a song Frodo, Pippin, and Sam sang as they hiked through the Woody End on 24 September T.A. 3018.[1] Bilbo Baggins had written the words to this song and he put it to a tune that was "as old as the hills."[2] On 22 September T.A. 3021[3] Frodo sang part of an altered version of the song as he was leaving for the Undying Lands.[4]
Adaptations
Music
Both versions of the song were set to music by the Tolkien Ensemble on their At Dawn in Rivendell and Complete Songs & Poems CDs.
Peter Jackson's The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King features part of the song within The Steward of Gondor which was written by Howard Shore and arranged by Philippa Boyens. The song is renamed to The Edge of Night and the melody was composed by Billy Boyd who played Peregrin Took and performed the song. These events differ from the books in which Pippin does not sing.
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Great Years"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "Three is Company"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "Later Events Concerning the Members of the Fellowship of the Ring"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Grey Havens"
