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Riddles with Gollum

STUDIO

[First movement] Precious it spashes... FOOD for my Precious... Is floppy litle fishes, tasty this dish is! Splashes splishes... It splashes… My Precious we findses it... FOOD for my Precious in the cold, cold drips. Floppy little fishes, soft they lies — gollum gollum Tasty it is, this dish is, For a creature that cries… But where… Where… gollum WHERE IS OUR PRECIOUS? gollum [A thud and a splash sound] Something drops, Precious… Something falls into our gloom. Into our cave, into our dark, Into our lonely room… gollum gollum [Second Movement] Armed It is! Our distances we stay... What is this precious, that bothers our day... gollum [Spoke Parts, Unrelated, Different emotions] [Spoken, Proper, but cautious] "I am Bilbo Baggins, and I appear to be lost. And I need to find my Dwarves at nearly any coginzes it is… its a dirty, nasty hobbitses… Wants to find the way out, it does, Precious. Wants to sneak past us, Wants to run from us, gollum gollum Maybe it plays a game… Maybe it likes riddles, Precious… DOES IT LIKE RIDDLES? If we asks... and it doesn't answer... We EATSES IT Precious... But if IT asks... and Precious doesn't answer... ...we shows it the way out. guess I don't have much of a choice...sks first, Precious… What has roots.. as nobody sees... Is taller than trees, up, Up, UP it goes, And yet... never grows... A " [Spoken, excited] "A Mountain! Ha! I guess that makes it My turn.. Thirty white horses upon a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still.Precious... its tricky... precious... Teeth.. TEETH PRECIOUS... To Bite, and Rend.. and... AND... Now... We... WE asks... Voiceless it cries! Wingless flutters! Toothless bites! Mouthless mutters! The " [Spoken, Sudden realization] "The Wind!Yesses... Precious... WIND... Bites... Now ASK! Good" [spoken, taken aback] "Goodness me, fine... A box without hinges, key or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.Tasty Eggses, Precious… Golden eggses… TASTY eggses… Now precious asks it This thing... all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel!; Grinds hard stones to Meal!!; Slays king!! RUINS TOWN!!! AND BEATS HIGH MOUNTAIN... DONW!!! " [spoken, confused] "Well, that's... let me think...It Answers us precious, or we EATS IT PRECIOUS glollum gollum Oh " [Spoken, offended] "Oh My Word!!! Do give a fellow some time!what... What... WHAT DID IT SAYS PRECIOUS!? " [Spoken, frustration] "Time, I said TIME... gih....SS IT Answers us precious! TIME TIME!!! is... correct... " [Spoken, false bravado] "It is? I... I mean, Of course it is. well... umm. what is this in my pocket?Pocket… POCKET? That’s not a riddle, Precious… Not a riddle at all… Well " [Spoken, declaration] "Well that's my Question!"Tricksy it is… Cheating it is… Bagginzes… Bagginzes… [Fourth Movement] Waitses here filthy hobbitses... yes... we must ...get our precious Splishes... Splashes... must shows hobbitses... precious... Splashes, splishes... waitses... WISHES... gollum gollum wheres our precious Precious.. it knows... Precious... NO!! Precious!!!! BAGGINSEZ!!! CHEATER!!! It TRICKSES US... PRECIOUS!!!!!!!