חַד גַּדְיָא | A Little Goat, according to the nusaḥ of the Hobbits of the Shire (CenozoicSynapsid 2019)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., חד גדיא Ḥad Gadya, Middle-Earth, Third Age of Arda, War of the Ring

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	My father bought a little goat But little did he pay But then there came the barnyard cat And stole the goat away.
	And then there came a great gray wolf From mountains cold and grim And up he snatched the barnyard cat And made an end of him.
	My father struck the grey wolf down, His stout stick broke in half, And so he made a great bonfire And burned both wolf and staff.
	Then Anduin the mighty Poured in to quench the flame And first it sparked, and then it spat But finally grew tame.
	Then came the great bull of Araw, He had so great a thirst, He drank the river Anduin And swelled up nigh to burst.
	Then came a Ranger of the north Who bore a great yew bow. He shot the great bull in the heart And laid the creature low.
	Then came the Shadow in the East Who forged the ranger’s doom And bound him as a strengthless shade In an eternal tomb.
	Then came the One who with His song All goodly things has wrought. Before him must all Shadows flee And evils come to naught.

This adaptation of Ḥad Gadya was written by CenozoicSynapsid and included in their Lord of the Rings fan-fiction, “All Who Are Hungry” (Archive of Our Own 2019). Click through for the song sung in the context of Frodo, Sam, and Gollum’s epic trek to Mordor.

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חַד גַּדְיָא | A Little Goat, according to the nusaḥ of the Hobbits of the Shire (CenozoicSynapsid 2019)

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