A breathless nonsense ballad about a wandering messenger who builds a beetle-shell boat, marries a butterfly, and roams from skirmish to skirmish with dragonflies and fireflies, never quite finishing his endless errand.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- contained in A Tolkien Miscellanyomnibus
- contained in Farmer Giles of Ham / The Adventures of Tom Bombadilomnibus
- contained in Poems and Storiesomnibus
- contained in Tales from the Perilous Realmomnibus
- contained in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Bookcollection
- contained in The J. R. R. Tolkien Audio Collectionomnibus
- contained in The Road Goes Ever on: A Song Cyclecollection
- contained in The Tolkien Readeromnibus
- contained in Tolkien Fantasy Tales Box Setomnibus