A Song of Troubles
Hoggle had always known that women were dangerous. Hadn't his wife caught him with some sparkly baubles, and besides that trouble with the blue-caps, where had it gotten him since? Mixed up in the on-goings of a human girl. "The Above ain't never no place for him as is wise," Hoggle's father always said. That's why he should have known better than to get mixed up in her business again when she was Queen, no matter how good a friend she was. "Just a small present for the King, phaugh!" he grumbled as he laid another banshee-trap. "Pretty singing, hah!"