Man in the Moon
Figure in Bilbo's inn-song
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The Man in the Moon is a figure of songs, not of the story itself. At the Prancing Pony in Bree, Frodo, pressed to sing, performs a comic song of Bilbo's making in which the Man in the Moon comes down one night to an inn under a grey hill for its brown beer and in the end has to be rolled back into the Moon. An earlier form of the song, 'The Cat and the Fiddle', was printed in 1923. A second poem about him, 'Why the Man in the Moon came down too soon', appeared in the same year and, much altered, later in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962).
Sources
- The Lord of the Rings — Book I, ch. 9, At the Sign of The Prancing Pony
- The Return of the Shadow — Songs for the Philologists
- The Book of Lost Tales, Part One — The Tale of the Sun and Moon (commentary)
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Legendarium (2026): „Man in the Moon“. Last updated September 25, 2026. https://www.legendarium.page/characters/man-in-the-moon/
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BibTeX
@misc{legendarium-man-in-the-moon-en,
title = {Man in the Moon},
author = {{Legendarium}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.legendarium.page/characters/man-in-the-moon/}},
note = {Last updated September 25, 2026}
}