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Goblin Song

These songs from The Hobbit were sung by goblins chasing Thorin and company to the trees, after their escape from Goblin-town (“Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire” chapter).

Fifteen birds in five fir-trees, 
their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! 
But, funny little birds, they had no wings! 
O what shall we do with the funny little things? 
Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; 
fry them, boil them and eat them hot? 
Burn, burn tree and fern! 
Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch 
To light the night for our delight, 
Ya hey! 

Bake and toast ’em, fry and roast ’em! 
till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; 
till hair smells and skins crack, 
fat melts, and bones black 
in cinders lie 
beneath the sky! 

So dwarves shall die, 
and light the night for our delight, 
Ya hey! 
Ya-harri-hey! 
Ya hoy! 

The List of required words

The following words (listed alphabetically) are required for translation:

English Nûrlâm Etymology and comments
alive
and
bake
beard
beneath
bird
black
blaze
boil
bone
breeze
but
burn
cinder
crack
delight
die
do
dwarves
eat
eye
fan
fat
feather
fern
fiery
fifteen
fir
five
fizzling
for
fry
funny
glaze
hair
have
hot
in
lie
light
little
melt
night
no
or
our
pot
roast
scorch
shall
shrivel
skin
sky
smell
so
stew
their
they
thing
till
toast
torch
tree
we
what
wing
with

The translation

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