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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Wednesday, July 16, 2003 I am less than 3 percent Geek according to this entertaining test found via Dale Price and Fr. Sibley. But nonetheless I appreciate this new Google toolbar with popup-ad-blocker and Blogger posting button.
And if I have not been bitten by the Tolkien bug, I still enjoy the supremely schlocky goodness of this 1960s video of Leonard Nimoy singing the "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins," here and, alternately, here. (Found at 365 Days via Lileks)
The lyrics, should you care to sing along:
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, wooly 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 travel away from home. They just want to eat and 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 hall!!!!!!! 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.
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