This 1923 comic poem spins the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" into a boozy inn-set backstory for the fiddling cat and jumping cow. Tolkien later expanded and reworked it as Frodo's song "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late" in The Lord of the Rings.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- contained in The Return of the Shadowcollection