This song was sung to wandering Hobbits the Elves of Linna na Gelaidh met on their travels. It is, as Tolkien would say, nonsense but fair nonsense.
What are you Hobbits doing,
that far off from the Shire?
Oh, shouldn't you be brewing,
or roasting meat on fire?
What brings these eyes
that far from pies?
Through wind and rain, through storm and ice?
Oh, are you lost and straying,
from home and hearths a-glowing?
Can't you hear wolves a-baying,
can't you see shadows growing?
Will you not run,
before the sun
is set and made your life undone!
Oh, don't run off in fright now,
or you will run astray here!
Stay and enjoy the night now,
Come on and make your stay here.
The moon's alight,
the stars are bright!
Oh will you sing with us tonight?
