Hey! I know this one! It's from "In the House of Tom Bombadil" and he sings it Merry, Pippin, Frodo, and Sam as they are about to go to sleep in his house. Frodo asked, "Did you hear me calling... or was it just chance that brought you at that moment?" and Tom tells him that he was only over there because he had an errand there.
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"'Hold it up!' said Gandalf. 'And look closely.'
As Frodo did so, he now saw fine lines, finer than the finest pen-strokes, running along the ring, outside and inside: lines of fire that seemed to form the letters of a flowing script. They shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth.
'I cannot read the fiery letters,' said Frodo in a quavering voice.
'No,' said Gandalf, 'but I can. The letters are Elvish, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. But this in the Common Tongue is what is said, close enough:
One Ring to Bring them all and in the darkness bind them.'"
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