比爾博最後之歌

"The Last Song of Bilbo Baggins" 並不是一個官方的標題,也不是托爾金作品中的一個著名段落。比爾博·巴金斯(Bilbo Baggins)是J.R.R.托爾金的小說《霍比特人》(The Hobbit)的主角,而在《霍比特人》的結尾和《魔戒》(The Lord of the Rings)的開頭,比爾博給弗羅多(Frodo)留下了一首詩,這首詩通常被稱為"Bilbo's Last Song" 或 "The Song of the Lonely Mountain"。

這首詩是在比爾博離開夏爾(Shire)前往海外尋求長生不老之前所作的,它表達了他對家園的懷念以及對未知旅程的期待。以下是這首詩的內容:

In western lands beneath the Sun
the flowers may rise in Spring,
the trees may bud, the waters run,
the merry finches sing.

Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night
and swaying branches bear
the Elven-stars as jewels white
amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's end I lie
in darkness buried deep,
beyond all towers strong and high,
beyond all mountains steep,

I hear the fair world falling far
below the shadow of the peak,
and from the West comes a grey ship
to carry me away.

這首詩在托爾金的宇宙中具有深遠的意義,它不僅代表了比爾博個人的旅程結束,也預示了《魔戒》中弗羅多的旅程和命運。托爾金的作品中充滿了對家園、旅程和命運的深刻思考,這首詩是這些主題的一個縮影。