Attercop! Attercop!

[CaptainWacky]

Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
Old fat spider can't see me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop,
Stop your spinning and look for me!
Old Tomnoddy, all big body,
Old Tomnoddy can't spy me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Down you drop!
You'll never catch me up your tree!

Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me.
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!
Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy.

 

[FBI parte due]

It's a metaphor for life.

 

[The Tomtrek]

Bilbo was kind of a dick to those spiders.

 

[Cassie]

I like spiders.

 

[Dr Dave]

!

 

[CaptainWacky]

Jackson will replace it with Bilbo killing seventeen spiders with flying kung fu or something. In bullet time.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Appropriate for Unesco World Poetry Day!

 

[CaptainWacky]

He chanted a song of wizardry,
Of piercing, opening, of treachery,
Revealing, uncovering, betraying.
Then sudden Felagund there swaying
Sang in answer a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,
And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;
Of changing and of shifting shape
Of snares eluded, broken traps,
The prison opening, the chain that snaps.
Backwards and forwards swayed their song.
Reeling and foundering, as ever more strong
The chanting swelled, Felagund fought,
And all the magic and might he brought
Of Elvenesse into his words.
Softly in the gloom they heard the birds
Singing afar in Nargothrond,
The sighing of the Sea beyond,
Beyond the western world, on sand,
On sand of pearls in Elvenland.
Then the gloom gathered; darkness growing
In Valinor, the red blood flowing
Beside the Sea, where the Noldor slew
The Foamriders, and stealing drew
Their white ships with their white sails
From lamplit havens. The wind wails,
The wolf howls. The ravens flee.
The ice mutters in the mouths of the Sea.
The captives sad in Angband mourn.
Thunder rumbles, the fires burn —-
And Finrod fell before the throne.

 

[FBI parte due]

Is the movie really like that?

I've been holding off seeing it until all three are out.

 

[CaptainWacky]

They haven't got to Attercop yet (they would have if it had been left as two movies.) I suspect they won't have the song in it.

Bilbo isn't doing kung fu or anything but he's already killed/stabbed some orcs as part of an added subplot (whereas in the book the first thing he stabs is a spider and that's when he finds his courage and names his sword Sting.)