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LePetitChoux · 01-24-2003, 04:49 PM

Gandalf, in the Hobbit, nearly the last thing said in the whole book. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
"But you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-24-2003, 05:12 PM

Yes, LePetitChoux, that's it - your turn!

LePetitChoux · 01-31-2003, 11:44 AM

Quote:

From pulling down no palaces by Shrimpy.

This is easy... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-01-2003, 01:16 AM

That was a cute version, LePetit! The 'Shrimpy' was a good clue. Actually, it's a double quote; Young Tom is telling what the ruffians said:

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To put up some sheds for Sharkey.

LePetitChoux · 02-01-2003, 06:00 AM

Yes! That wasn't very cleverly backwarded, was it.... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-01-2003, 08:24 AM

Au contraire, it was very cleverly backwarded! Shrimpy as the opposite of Sharkey tickled my fancy!

Quote:

You haven't pasted up the work weed!

LePetitChoux · 02-01-2003, 12:19 PM

Quote:

We have copied down the leisure flower

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-01-2003, 02:21 PM

Sorry, you're on the wrong track.
Clue - third person plural...

Elanor · 02-01-2003, 02:38 PM

They've cut down the party tree! Sam during the Scouring of the Shire.

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-01-2003, 03:52 PM

You got it, Elanor - and welcome to the thread! Your turn now.

Elanor · 02-01-2003, 05:17 PM

Thanks for letting me interrupt. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] These are easier to solve than to set, so I hope this makes sense!

Quote:

She feels a bit fat, and she's frail; but hard as cheese from the foot.

[ February 01, 2003: Message edited by: Elanor ]

Bruce MacCulloch · 02-02-2003, 02:03 AM

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It looks a bit thin, but it's tough; and soft as milk to the hand.

Samwise, describing the rope he was given by the Elves

Elanor · 02-02-2003, 03:56 AM

That's the one Bruce. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Over to you.

Bruce MacCulloch · 02-09-2003, 02:30 PM

Sorry, I had forgotten about answering on this thread.
Anyway, here goes:

Quote:

Nay, lest they yield under a familiar mountain, the shame that they sow elsewhere has been another's nevermore.

LePetitChoux · 02-09-2003, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Yea, hopefully I take over a strange valley, the pride that they harvest here will be the same always.

Bruce MacCulloch · 02-10-2003, 10:17 PM

Heh - nope. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

LePetitChoux · 02-11-2003, 02:37 PM

Are any bits of it correct?

Bruce MacCulloch · 02-11-2003, 07:24 PM

A few. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion · 03-15-2003, 02:35 AM

sounds somehow a bit like Bard about Dain's dwarves just before the Battle of Five Armies. But some inner voice tells me I must be wrong.

Bruce?

[ March 17, 2003: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ]

HerenIstarion · 05-10-2003, 08:24 AM

Bruce?

HerenIstarion · 07-09-2003, 07:26 AM

well, since Bruce positively have lost interest, I will brandish the sword in his stead. Next one to follow up:

Quote:

A stay-at-home orc, free man captured, whom Engwar avoided and worried

who whom to + circumstances

HerenIstarion · 01-30-2004, 02:44 PM

just because four posts in a row is just a grass blade short of five posts in a row and surely may be a sign of an insane mind, and since I haven't posted for more than two months, and for the sake of bumping this one up. Have a go, guv(s)

HerenIstarion · 02-12-2004, 09:00 AM

Ok,since everybody seems clueless, I now reveal the answer (and yes, that is the fifth post in a row, hum)

That was Gwindor to Turin upon their meeting:

Quote:

A wandering Elf, a thrall escaped, whom Beleg met and comforted

And, as a victor, I will give a next one straight away:

Quote:

We will be cows! But nice and trustworthy deities at that, and polite too. She may have not quite catch the beautiful surnames as has been whispered before them

Lindolirian · 02-18-2004, 08:51 PM

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We will be cows! But nice and trustworthy deities at that, and polite too. She may have not quite catch the beautiful surnames as has been whispered before them.

They have been (bulls?)! And mean but deceitful people at that, but not rude. He will surely miss the ugly names that will be shouted after us.

That's as close as I can get it. Otherwise, I have no clue but I feel so sorry for you because you've had this thread for year!

HerenIstarion · 02-18-2004, 11:52 PM

no worries

stress on "they shouted after" us bit

Evisse the Blue · 02-20-2004, 11:51 AM

I got it! Wheew. This one bugged me for quite a while now.

"Those were crows! And nasty suspicious-looking creatures at that, and rude as well. You must have heard the ugly names they were calling after us."
Balin to Bilbo.

Who would have thought the opposite of cow was crow?

HerenIstarion · 02-22-2004, 07:02 AM

well, they are different, cows and crows, are not they? And I wanted to leave a trace of a hint, just an 'r' missing, you know

Anyways, you've got it. Pray proceed

Evisse the Blue · 02-22-2004, 03:31 PM

Right, now I processed the difference between this thread and the backwards quotes thread - I was looking for antonyms all the way which might not always be the best approach here.

"Maybe your ears will be completely deaf', said Denethor. 'Oh and also you are in my debt, your host. Not once I will be late. You should offer me no donation after they come, forced by you. I might as well keep silent on everything that was yours. I gave away in the past my kitchen knives well."

HerenIstarion · 02-23-2004, 12:35 AM

hola, I think I've found it:

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'Indeed my eyes were almost blind,' said Theoden. 'Most of all I owe to you, my guest. Once again you have come in time. I would give you a gift ere we go, at your own choosing. You have only to name aught that is mine. I reserve now only
my sword!'

Evisse the Blue · 02-23-2004, 06:57 AM

You have indeed. Please proceed.

HerenIstarion · 02-23-2004, 08:36 AM

next one, than:

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We all have been resurrected but one of their horses, and we found one of their hospices

HerenIstarion · 03-09-2004, 06:00 AM

feel like a hint?

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-09-2004, 07:28 AM

Yes, please...

HerenIstarion · 03-09-2004, 07:45 AM

I missapplied the hint which should have gone here to "backwards quotes" thread. So I simply repeat it here:

many frightened (and bearded) persons at once

in The Hobbit (you were correct in assuming it over there)

Dare your luck

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-09-2004, 12:58 PM

Ah, that helped - here it is:

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They will be slain, and all our ponies too, and all our stores lost.

Those are "the others" - apparently, all of the Dwarves except for Bifur, who notices that they have forgotten Bombur and Bofur in the valley, and Thorin, who answers after the quoted sentence.

(By the way, HI, it's your turn on the "minor works" trivia thread, over in the Quiz Room...)

HerenIstarion · 03-10-2004, 12:02 AM

corrrrect, my lady

Going to check over minor works trivia right away (tarried due to forgetfulness, alas)

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-10-2004, 11:11 PM

Quote:

"Fly forward?" she shouted. "All bad for nothing! Swim upwards? Possibly! Crawl back? One of several persons to procrastinate. Off you stay!"

HerenIstarion · 03-11-2004, 12:23 AM

Bilbo lost in the goblin tunnels:

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Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-11-2004, 02:53 AM

That was fast, HI! And absolutely correct, of course. Isn't that a great motto for living?!

HerenIstarion · 03-11-2004, 05:18 AM

Fast and Correct!

*plays with the sentence around his tongue

quite a tart aftertaste, I should say. Such a motto is worth considering, my lady.

next one:

Quote:

"Are you the owner?" Prosaist asked "You have taken ours and we will remove yours"

01-24-2003, 04:49 PM	#161
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Gandalf, in the Hobbit, nearly the last thing said in the whole book. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] "But you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!" __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

01-24-2003, 05:12 PM	#162
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Yes, LePetitChoux, that's it - your turn! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

02-01-2003, 06:00 AM	#165
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Yes! That wasn't very cleverly backwarded, was it.... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

02-01-2003, 02:21 PM	#168
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Sorry, you're on the wrong track. Clue - third person plural... __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

02-01-2003, 02:38 PM	#169
Elanor Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: my own corner of the Shire Posts: 316	They've cut down the party tree! Sam during the Scouring of the Shire. __________________ "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." Henny Youngman (1906 - )

02-01-2003, 03:52 PM	#170
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	You got it, Elanor - and welcome to the thread! Your turn now. __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

02-02-2003, 03:56 AM	#173
Elanor Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: my own corner of the Shire Posts: 316	That's the one Bruce. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Over to you. __________________ "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." Henny Youngman (1906 - )

02-10-2003, 10:17 PM	#176
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	Heh - nope. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'

02-11-2003, 02:37 PM	#177
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Are any bits of it correct? __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

02-11-2003, 07:24 PM	#178
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	A few. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'

03-15-2003, 02:35 AM	#179
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	sounds somehow a bit like Bard about Dain's dwarves just before the Battle of Five Armies. But some inner voice tells me I must be wrong. Bruce? [ March 17, 2003: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ] __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

05-10-2003, 08:24 AM	#180
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Bruce? __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

01-30-2004, 02:44 PM	#182
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	just because four posts in a row is just a grass blade short of five posts in a row and surely may be a sign of an insane mind, and since I haven't posted for more than two months, and for the sake of bumping this one up. Have a go, guv(s) __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

02-18-2004, 11:52 PM	#185
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	no worries stress on "they shouted after" us bit __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

02-20-2004, 11:51 AM	#186
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	I got it! Wheew. This one bugged me for quite a while now. "Those were crows! And nasty suspicious-looking creatures at that, and rude as well. You must have heard the ugly names they were calling after us." Balin to Bilbo. Who would have thought the opposite of cow was crow? __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

02-22-2004, 07:02 AM	#187
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	well, they are different, cows and crows, are not they? And I wanted to leave a trace of a hint, just an 'r' missing, you know Anyways, you've got it. Pray proceed __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

02-22-2004, 03:31 PM	#188
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	Right, now I processed the difference between this thread and the backwards quotes thread - I was looking for antonyms all the way which might not always be the best approach here. "Maybe your ears will be completely deaf', said Denethor. 'Oh and also you are in my debt, your host. Not once I will be late. You should offer me no donation after they come, forced by you. I might as well keep silent on everything that was yours. I gave away in the past my kitchen knives well." __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

02-23-2004, 06:57 AM	#190
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	You have indeed. Please proceed. __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

03-09-2004, 06:00 AM	#192
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	feel like a hint? __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

03-09-2004, 07:28 AM	#193
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Yes, please... __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

03-09-2004, 07:45 AM	#194
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	I missapplied the hint which should have gone here to "backwards quotes" thread. So I simply repeat it here: many frightened (and bearded) persons at once in The Hobbit (you were correct in assuming it over there) Dare your luck __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

03-10-2004, 12:02 AM	#196
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	corrrrect, my lady Going to check over minor works trivia right away (tarried due to forgetfulness, alas) __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

03-11-2004, 02:53 AM	#199
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	That was fast, HI! And absolutely correct, of course. Isn't that a great motto for living?! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'