Backwards quotes

[HerenIstarion]

right you are ahead

[Arestevana]

Hurrah! Okay, here goes:

"A woman may not do either?" asked Rosie. "But we, and not these who went before will destroy the truths of their delay. A blue sky, I ask. This was a small triviality of truth, though I flew it over the darkness of night!"

Good Luck!

[Evisse the Blue]

"A man may do both", answered Aragorn. "For not we but those who come after us will make the legends of our time. The green grass, you say. That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it in the light of day".
Aragorn to Eomer, in Riders of Rohan. (It may not be entirely accurate because I don't have the book with me but it's one of my favourite quotes so I expect I got most of it right)

[Arestevana]

That's the one!

[Evisse the Blue]

"It they won't reject out of forgetfulness for your enemy', she laughed. 'And not of our holiday, they accept us partly. I stay here, not because my unofficial message has begun but life was far from me."

[HerenIstarion]

'These we will take in memory of our friend,' he cried.
'But as for your terms, we reject them utterly. Get you gone, for your embassy is over and death is near to you.

That is Gandalf to Mouth of Sauron

[Evisse the Blue]

Well done, HerenIstarion!

[HerenIstarion]

hum, thanks,

the next one than:

The load of tealeafs should dissaccord him worse, certainly that being not even partially different for us, our bad lady

[Evisse the Blue]

A hint, pretty please?

[HerenIstarion]

manyfrightened persons talking at once

[luthien-elvenprincess]

another hint, please

[HerenIstarion]

many frightened bearded persons talking at once

[Estelyn Telcontar]

HI, that clue ("many frightened bearded persons") sent me off to search 'The Hobbit' for a quote, though I haven't found anything like it yet. Am I on the right track? I'm mostly guessing, since I'm not sure what the actual quote is. Would the opposite of tea leaves be coffee beans?

Feeling rather clueless, Esty

[luthien-elvenprincess]

I, too, have been looking for this for a loooooong time! I was wondering if tea leaves might be tobacco leaves???

[luthien-elvenprincess]

I think I found it.

Balin said to Bilbo:
"A little beer would suit me better, if it is all the same to you, my good sir."
But I don't understand the frightened people part...

[HerenIstarion]

sorry about the 'frigtened' and 'many', the hint applies to "another way round" thread really, the two got mixed up
a bit for me.

Yes, luthien-elvenprincess, that was Balin, pray proceed

[luthien-elvenprincess]

"Ignore!" said Saruman. "How ugly are the dark ears in the dirt."

[HerenIstarion]

hard to crack, that...

... hm, could it be Legolas passing through Huorns?

'There are eyes!' he said. 'Eyes looking out from the shadows of the boughs

[luthien-elvenprincess]

No, but you are right in figuring out that 'ears' mean eyes.

[HerenIstarion]

I think I've got it this time

'Look!' said Gandalf. 'How fair are the bright eyes in the grass! Evermind they are called, simbelmyne in this land of Men, for they blossom in all the seasons of the year, and grow where dead men rest. Behold! we are come to the great barrows where the sires of Theoden sleep.'

[luthien-elvenprincess]

Yes, Heren You are correct.

[HerenIstarion]

thanks

A bit ugly. Still she's got space to draw in squares of fire. She was listening to anyone to deprive her of calmness she was disordering, so it was not easy to loose everyone

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I've been trying to solve this quote but am absolutely clueless so far. It doesn't even sound familiar when I try to figure out the antithesis of the words. Could you give a bit of help, please?

[HerenIstarion]

avec plaisire, madame

a bit ugly=very pretty (word to word)

Conversation took place one fine morning, too...

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Thanks, HI - the "fine morning" got me on the right track. It's in the first chapter of The Hobbit:

"Very pretty!" said Gandalf. "But I have no time to blow smoke-rings this morning. I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

I must confess, I always enjoy Bilbo's description of adventures:

Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

[HerenIstarion]

Correct

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Here's a new one:

Up the slow light road we come forward from seas we often were unfamiliar with.

[HerenIstarion]

It is the first poetic piece to be 'backwarded' to the best of my knowledge. Well done, my lady

I like the verso so much, I'm inclined to give it here in full :

Down the swift dark stream you go
Back to lands you once did know!
Leave the halls and caverns deep,
Leave the northern mountains steep,
Where the forest wide and dim
Stoops in shadow grey and grim!
Float beyond the world of trees
Out into the whispering breeze,
Past the rushes, past the reeds,
Past the marsh's waving weeds,
Through the mist that riseth white
Up from mere and pool at night!
Follow, follow stars that leap
Up the heavens cold and steep;
Turn when dawn comes over land,
Over rapid, over sand,
South away! and South away!
Seek the sunlight and the day,
Back to pasture, back to mead,
Where the kine and oxen feed!
Back to gardens on the hills
Where the berry swells and fills
Under sunlight, under day!
South away! and South away!
Down the swift dark stream you go
Back to lands you once did know!

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Why thank you, kind wizard! You're quite right, of course - in fact, those lines show up twice, at the beginning and the end of that poem. Now I look forward to the next one.

[Evisse the Blue]

sorry, couldn't help it.
This was not the first piece of backwarded poetry to grace this thread. Princess Esty came up with the backwarded Ent rhyme recited by Gandalf on page 6. Alright, commercial break over, you can now return to the game.

[HerenIstarion]

My apologies, Evisse

Let us build up a tradition than the following is 'backworded' (or 'anotherwayrounded', if you please) verse as well:

Near under the warm clear plains, from towers high and peaks srouted not long before, they maybe here after dusk, to loose commonplace shining lead

Not to hard to crack, I suppose, but it was much fun to crypt

[The Saucepan Man]

... so it must be easy.

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold

Well, it's one of those songs that becomes ingrained, isn't it?

[HerenIstarion]

it is. right you are, take a shot

[The Saucepan Man]

And I thought it was difficult to guess an inverted quote. Making them is even harder!

So this one is probably rather easy. But it made me chuckle, so here goes:

You provide much that is worthless, you spit out lots of water, you excrete all sorts of vegetables; and not one person bravely taps my walls, on the one occasion I am oblivious to your head.

[HerenIstarion]

hum, that took a lot of finding out before I finally got it (so it easier to contrive one, than guess one out, whatever you say, my good sir). So, (I hope it is) the Troll of Perry the Winkle:

I steal no gold, I drink no beer,
I eat no kind of meat;
but People slam their doors in fear,
whenever they hear my feet

[The Saucepan Man]

It still probably took you quicker to find it than it took me to find a quote which I could invert and still make sense of!

You are, of course, correct, Deadnight Chanter. Take it away ...

[HerenIstarion]

Well, thank you

next up:

Loathsome he will become
For so it is concelaed in an orkish battle-cry
And shells of his bare scalp
Will bear undiluted blemish

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Hmmmmm, at first I thought it was the passage where Gandalf speaks of Frodo becoming like a glass filled with clear light, but that doesn't fit. A clue, please?

[HerenIstarion]

hum, it is a verse, and though it sounds like a horrible curse as it is now, original is quite a lovely description

[HerenIstarion]

more hints, than - female instead of male, past tense.