A Balada de Bilbo Bolseiro.

       Quando fiquei sabendo que o lançamento do trailer de Star Trek 2 seria no filme "O Hobbit" lembrei-me quase que imediatamente da Música "A balada de Bilbo Bolseiro" (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins).
       A música foi composta por Charles Randolph Grean na década de 1960, e é interpretada por, pasmem, Leonard Nimoy (O Sr. Spock da série clássica de Jornada nas Estrelas). A música obviamente é uma homenagem ao protagonista de O Hobbit. Certas coisas só acontecem nos inacreditáveis anos 60.
       Em 1967 foi gravado o clipe que deu fama a música. Nesse clipe podemos ver várias moças "dançando" com orelhas pontudas ao redor de Nimoy enquanto ele canta essa insólita melodia.

Com vocês, senhoras e senhores dos anéis... A Balada de Bilbo Bolseiro:


Letra:

In the middle of the earth in the land of the Shire
lives a brave little hobbit whom we all admire.
With his long wooden pipe,
fuzzy, woolly toes,
he lives in a hobbit-hole and everybody knows him

Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
He's only three feet tall
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them all

Now hobbits are a peace-lovin' folks you know
They don't like to hurry and they take things slow
They don't like to travel away from home
They just want to eat and be left alone
But one day Bilbo was asked to go
on a big adventure to the caves below,
to help some dwarves get back their gold
that was stolen by a dragon in the days of old.

Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
He's only three feet tall
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them all

Well he fought with the goblins!
He battled a troll!!
He riddled with Gollum!!!
A magic ring he stole!!!!
He was chased by wolves!!!!!
Lost in the forest!!!!!!
Escaped in a barrel from the elf-king's halls!!!!!!!

Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them all

Now he's back in his hole in the land of the Shire,
that brave little hobbit whom we all admire,
just a-sittin' on a treasure of silver and gold
a-puffin' on his pipe in his hobbit-hole.

Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
He's only three feet tall
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them all