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LePetitChoux · 11-29-2003, 08:54 AM

I'm useless for this one, never having read ths silmarillion myself (I know, I know...), but not to let this thread peter out, *second bump*

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Evisse the Blue · 12-15-2003, 03:07 AM

I got it:

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'For that woe is past, and I would take what joy is here left, untroubled by memory.

Galadriel to Melian.

Turambar · 01-06-2004, 12:45 PM

Correct !

Evisse the Blue · 01-16-2004, 10:20 AM

Quote:

The silence for that muggle sit in our toes.

These things are dam- hard to make!

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-17-2004, 07:27 AM

Ah, that's a wonderful quote! Gimli is speaking of Saruman:

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The words of this wizard stand on their heads. In the language of Orthanc help means ruin, and saving means slaying, that is plain.

"Muggle" was a great clue, Evisse! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Evisse the Blue · 01-19-2004, 02:43 AM

Your turn, my lady! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-20-2004, 11:30 AM

~They wandered here many times, but loudly they left where they couldn't. Here your head is not; and that was your free-will to stand at war.~

Evisse the Blue · 01-22-2004, 06:02 AM

"I dwelt there once, and still I return when I may. there my heart is, but it is not my fate to sit in peace"
Strider to the hobbits in "Flight to the Ford'.

(the *here your head is not* bit gave it away [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 7:05 AM January 22, 2004: Message edited by: Evisse the Blue ]

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-22-2004, 07:03 AM

Well-done, Evisse! I look forward to seeing what you come up with next.

Evisse the Blue · 01-23-2004, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Surely Orcs couldn't crawl underneath the plains, we must throw away the Moon, to let them perish', asked the Black Rider. 'And you might lack nothing to lay idle under. You can put out rain.

The quote contains a name that I had also given an 'opposite' to.

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-27-2004, 03:55 AM

That's another great quote, Evisse! "throw away the moon" was the clue that gave it away to me. Gandalf speaking, of course:

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'If Elves could fly over mountains, they might fetch the Sun to save us,' answered Gandalf. 'But I must have something to work on. I cannot burn snow.'

Evisse the Blue · 01-30-2004, 07:13 AM

Thanks, Estelyn! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I had a little trouble with the antonym for 'snow', I'm sure there's a better one than 'rain'. Anyways, the thread's yours!

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-04-2004, 08:11 AM

Quote:

‘None of this ends without Clearasil, unlike you send her away,’ sang Industrialist Polyester; ‘or this ends unlike late unlike they’d come on, Miss _____.’

Have fun! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

luthien-elvenprincess · 02-04-2004, 09:03 PM

"It all began with Pimple, as we call him,' said Farmer Cotton; 'and it began as soon as you'd gone off, Mr. Frodo."

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-05-2004, 01:59 AM

That's exactly right, luthien-elvenprincess - welcome to the Barrow-Downs and to this thread! I hope you have as much fun turning a new quote around for us as I did with that one!

luthien-elvenprincess · 02-05-2004, 08:26 AM

Thank you Estelyn. Well, here we go with my first try...
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Quote:
I can come in, gushed Ilmig, 'Unfortunate for them the desert rose much, and the Unseeing was aroused in the north origin.
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Estelyn Telcontar · 02-07-2004, 04:10 AM

That quote sounds so familiar, but my searching has been unsuccessful so far! I'm assuming that the name is 'Gimli' backwards and am looking for something that refers to water that has receded and the Eye sleeping in the South. Am I on the right track? I looked at the places with water - Orthanc and outside of the Gate to Moria, but didn't find anything there...

luthien-elvenprincess · 02-07-2004, 12:47 PM

Yes, Estelyn, Gimli is the one speaking.
You are on the right track about water receding.
However, the "Unseeing" in my quote is not the "Eye". Anyway, I assumed you were thinking of the eye of Sauron. It is not him.
Check the account of Moria again...especially the conversations within the walls of Moria. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-07-2004, 02:13 PM

Thanks for the clue, luthien! That helped me to find it.

Quote:

'We cannot get out,' muttered Gimli. 'It was well for us that the pool had sunk a little, and that the Watcher was sleeping down at the southern end.'

luthien-elvenprincess · 02-07-2004, 02:20 PM

you are exactly right, Estelyn. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Your turn.

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-10-2004, 03:32 PM

'After clay is lost and rock is raised, where old is valley above sun; after necklace is destroyed, and undone is joy, we sat in the lakes shortly in the future.'

Evisse the Blue · 02-10-2004, 04:26 PM

"Ere iron was found or tree was hewn,
When young was mountain under moon;
Ere ring was made or wrought was woe
It walked the forests long ago."

This is it, no? The rhythm is roughly the same. I liked the 'undone is joy' bit.

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-11-2004, 03:57 AM

That's it, Evisse! Yes, I tried to keep as much of the rhythm as possible without making it too obvious that it was a poem... Now you can struggle to create a new one!

Evisse the Blue · 02-12-2004, 05:36 AM

Good luck with this one

"Now at leisure she caught forward her multicoloured mask but kept close her shoe but crawled from donkeyfront. She was clad in nightcap and cotton. Her raven baldness walked incarcerated out of the still air, her black nightgown dimmed bleakly out of the moon."

Mariska Greenleaf · 02-12-2004, 05:49 AM

Quote:

Then suddenly he threw back his grey cloak, and cast aside his hat, and leaped to horseback. He wore no helm nor mail. His snowy hair flew free in the wind, his white robes shone dazzling in the sun

"donkeyfront"

lol

Evisse the Blue · 02-12-2004, 06:06 AM

That's right!

Mariska Greenleaf · 02-13-2004, 10:13 AM

Ok, try this:

Quote:

"Wake up. But let's be scared." cried Saruman,"Because I'm, unlike Sam, flying away from the Shire, and not to Bree, but here we will be in great danger, not as we can't be nowhere in the past."

That wasn't easy at all!

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-13-2004, 11:23 AM

Oh, that's one I recognize and know where to find! Well done, Mariska!

Quote:

'Sleep again, and do not be afraid!' said Gandalf. 'For you are not going like Frodo to Mordor, but to Minas Tirith, and there you will be as safe as you can be anywhere in these days.'

Mariska Greenleaf · 02-13-2004, 11:30 AM

Good job!

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-14-2004, 03:38 AM

Quote:

We come from their mother. But not out of my weak loneliness you will someday be proud. They raised the white eagle. Some cheerful evenings, but some sad nights, or some grey sunrises!

Evisse the Blue · 02-14-2004, 05:22 AM

Quote:

I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not be ashamed. I felled the black serpent. A grim morn and a glad day and a golden sunset!

Theoden dying on the Pellenor Fields.

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-14-2004, 06:06 AM

Right, Evisse - I look forward to a new one from you!

Evisse the Blue · 02-14-2004, 02:24 PM

"She has shrunken, and nothing. She cannot be only nastier but less comforting, gloomier and less goofy as afterwards, you sense. She has stayed the same, and I have had a misfortune to be blind to what scarce, from now on."

Solve it if you dare!

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-14-2004, 03:53 PM

That was a tough one, Evisse! I thought it could be the "You have grown, Halfling" speech by Saruman at first, but when I looked more closely, the differences were too great. I finally found it in TTT - Merry is speaking to Pippin of Gandalf:

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He has grown, or something. He can be both kinder and more alarming, merrier and more solemn than before, I think. He has changed; but we have not had a chance to see how much, yet.

Evisse the Blue · 02-15-2004, 08:31 AM

A tough one, and it took you about an hour to find it

Things sure happen fast here at the downs! Good work, Estelyn and sharpen your pencil for the next one!

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-16-2004, 07:55 AM

Quote:

Definitely. From wolves the same wolves possibly vanish similarly, wept _____. And from robbers. And immortals are their hobby. They have nothing else for pleasure.

HerenIstarion · 02-16-2004, 08:15 AM

Quote:

Maybe. To sheep other sheep no doubt appear different,' laughed Lindir. `Or to shepherds. But Mortals have not been our study. We have other business.

who is seen from the quote. whom is Bilbo. Conversation concerning which parts of the poem belonged to him and which to Dunadan

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-16-2004, 09:02 AM

All correct, HI, and nice to see you here! Go ahead with a new one.

HerenIstarion · 02-16-2004, 09:19 AM

thanks

here we go:

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Though it is a bit bad evening with some glasses of wine indoors, out of a humbug. As I happen not to have her glass, I'm free of her and a bit of stand up woud do me good, than. What with the night left behind, haste is what they have to make.

Arestevana · 02-16-2004, 07:24 PM

I think I've found it! I'm not sure of it, but might it be:

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And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain. If you have a pipe about you, sit down and have a fill of mine! There's no hurry, we have all the day before us!

Bilbo to Gandalf in the first chapter of The Hobbit.

11-29-2003, 08:54 AM	#161
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	I'm useless for this one, never having read ths silmarillion myself (I know, I know...), but not to let this thread peter out, second bump [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

01-06-2004, 12:45 PM	#163
Turambar Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Non-Stop Home Posts: 859	Correct ! __________________ In the upper air the fireflies move more slowly.

01-19-2004, 02:43 AM	#166
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	Your turn, my lady! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

01-20-2004, 11:30 AM	#167
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	~They wandered here many times, but loudly they left where they couldn't. Here your head is not; and that was your free-will to stand at war.~ __________________ '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...'

01-22-2004, 06:02 AM	#168
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	"I dwelt there once, and still I return when I may. there my heart is, but it is not my fate to sit in peace" Strider to the hobbits in "Flight to the Ford'. (the here your head is not bit gave it away [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) <font size=1 color=339966>[ 7:05 AM January 22, 2004: Message edited by: Evisse the Blue ] __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

01-22-2004, 07:03 AM	#169
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Well-done, Evisse! I look forward to seeing what you come up with next. __________________ '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...'

01-30-2004, 07:13 AM	#172
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	Thanks, Estelyn! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I had a little trouble with the antonym for 'snow', I'm sure there's a better one than 'rain'. Anyways, the thread's yours! __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

02-04-2004, 09:03 PM	#174
luthien-elvenprincess Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: what are you doing here? did you come here to eat my popcorn? Posts: 1,031	"It all began with Pimple, as we call him,' said Farmer Cotton; 'and it began as soon as you'd gone off, Mr. Frodo." __________________ York Peppermint Patties taste better than Pearson's Peppermint Patties! But, Junior Mints are the best!

02-05-2004, 01:59 AM	#175
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	That's exactly right, luthien-elvenprincess - welcome to the Barrow-Downs and to this thread! I hope you have as much fun turning a new quote around for us as I did with that one! __________________ '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...'

02-05-2004, 08:26 AM	#176
luthien-elvenprincess Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: what are you doing here? did you come here to eat my popcorn? Posts: 1,031	Thank you Estelyn. Well, here we go with my first try... ____________________________________________ Quote: I can come in, gushed Ilmig, 'Unfortunate for them the desert rose much, and the Unseeing was aroused in the north origin. ____________________________________________ __________________ York Peppermint Patties taste better than Pearson's Peppermint Patties! But, Junior Mints are the best!

02-07-2004, 04:10 AM	#177
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	That quote sounds so familiar, but my searching has been unsuccessful so far! I'm assuming that the name is 'Gimli' backwards and am looking for something that refers to water that has receded and the Eye sleeping in the South. Am I on the right track? I looked at the places with water - Orthanc and outside of the Gate to Moria, but didn't find anything there... __________________ '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...'

02-07-2004, 12:47 PM	#178
luthien-elvenprincess Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: what are you doing here? did you come here to eat my popcorn? Posts: 1,031	Yes, Estelyn, Gimli is the one speaking. You are on the right track about water receding. However, the "Unseeing" in my quote is not the "Eye". Anyway, I assumed you were thinking of the eye of Sauron. It is not him. Check the account of Moria again...especially the conversations within the walls of Moria. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ York Peppermint Patties taste better than Pearson's Peppermint Patties! But, Junior Mints are the best!

02-07-2004, 02:20 PM	#180
luthien-elvenprincess Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: what are you doing here? did you come here to eat my popcorn? Posts: 1,031	you are exactly right, Estelyn. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Your turn. __________________ York Peppermint Patties taste better than Pearson's Peppermint Patties! But, Junior Mints are the best!

02-10-2004, 03:32 PM	#181
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	'After clay is lost and rock is raised, where old is valley above sun; after necklace is destroyed, and undone is joy, we sat in the lakes shortly in the future.' __________________ '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...'

02-10-2004, 04:26 PM	#182
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	"Ere iron was found or tree was hewn, When young was mountain under moon; Ere ring was made or wrought was woe It walked the forests long ago." This is it, no? The rhythm is roughly the same. I liked the 'undone is joy' bit. __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

02-11-2004, 03:57 AM	#183
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	That's it, Evisse! Yes, I tried to keep as much of the rhythm as possible without making it too obvious that it was a poem... Now you can struggle to create a new one! __________________ '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...'

02-12-2004, 05:36 AM	#184
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	Good luck with this one "Now at leisure she caught forward her multicoloured mask but kept close her shoe but crawled from donkeyfront. She was clad in nightcap and cotton. Her raven baldness walked incarcerated out of the still air, her black nightgown dimmed bleakly out of the moon." __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

02-12-2004, 06:06 AM	#186
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	That's right! __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

02-13-2004, 11:30 AM	#189
Mariska Greenleaf Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,036	Good job! __________________ I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.- Confucius.

02-14-2004, 06:06 AM	#192
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Right, Evisse - I look forward to a new one from you! __________________ '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...'

02-14-2004, 02:24 PM	#193
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	"She has shrunken, and nothing. She cannot be only nastier but less comforting, gloomier and less goofy as afterwards, you sense. She has stayed the same, and I have had a misfortune to be blind to what scarce, from now on." Solve it if you dare! __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

02-15-2004, 08:31 AM	#195
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	A tough one, and it took you about an hour to find it Things sure happen fast here at the downs! Good work, Estelyn and sharpen your pencil for the next one! __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

02-16-2004, 09:02 AM	#198
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	All correct, HI, and nice to see you here! Go ahead with a new one. __________________ '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...'