Proverbs, Adages, Aphorisms, Saws, Wise Sayings & Clichés - Page 7 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mariska Greenleaf · 02-05-2004, 09:06 AM

Yes, there is a beautiful one at the end of that paragraph... which I'm not going to use now... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

This next one is just a part of a sentence, but it sounds so beautiful. I hope you agree...

Quote:

...dropping vain tears in the thankless sea.

Guinevere · 02-06-2004, 02:32 PM

That is in Fëanor's rousing speech to the Noldor,isn't it?

Mariska Greenleaf · 02-10-2004, 06:30 AM

Ja, that was it.

Guinevere · 02-11-2004, 08:01 AM

Thanks, Mariska! (btw: nice new avatar you've got!

I had a heck of a time to reinstall my old one!

)

Quote:

"Yet in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom"

Sleepy Ranger · 02-11-2004, 11:20 AM

Um, can I play? Hama to Gandalf? When Aragorn says you will not part an old man from his support thing.

Guinevere · 02-11-2004, 01:43 PM

You're very welcome, Sleepy, and your answer is correct!

Your turn!

Sleepy Ranger · 02-11-2004, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Use all the wits and knowledge you have for your own

Ok its easy

Guinevere · 02-11-2004, 02:05 PM

Frodo to Sam, about how to use the contents of Galadriels box in the ravaged Shire.

Sleepy Ranger · 02-12-2004, 01:52 AM

yep, good going thats it.

Guinevere · 02-12-2004, 07:25 AM

Thank you!

Quote:

"In the armour of Fate there is ever a rift."

Evisse the Blue · 02-13-2004, 08:17 AM

Ulmo to Tuor.

Quote:

In the armour of Fate (as the children of Earth name it) there is ever a rift and in Doom a breach, until the full-making which ye call the End.

Beautiful one, that.

Guinevere · 02-13-2004, 10:44 AM

Yes, well done Evisse!

Evisse the Blue · 02-14-2004, 05:49 AM

"Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart".

Guinevere · 02-22-2004, 10:17 AM

Melian to Túrin, if I remember rightly...

Evisse the Blue · 02-22-2004, 10:24 AM

You do remember rightly.

Guinevere · 02-24-2004, 03:47 PM

Thank you!

Quote:

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

Sleepy Ranger · 02-24-2004, 03:51 PM

Gildor to Frodo

Guinevere · 02-24-2004, 04:16 PM

Right! That was a fast answer, Sleepy

so you're apparently not so sleepy at all...

Sleepy Ranger · 03-02-2004, 02:56 AM

Next question.

Quote:

And I daresay theres more truth in some of them than you reckon.

Mariska Greenleaf · 03-03-2004, 03:16 AM

Sam to Ted Sandyman about fireside tales and children's stories.

Sleepy Ranger · 03-03-2004, 02:24 PM

Thats it

Mariska Greenleaf · 03-09-2004, 09:58 AM

Easy one:

Quote:

Where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls.

Lostgaeriel · 03-09-2004, 10:53 AM

That's Aragorn replying to Boromir's adage 'the wolf one hears is worse than the orc that one fears'. A Journey in the Dark - about 4 pages into that chapter.

Mariska Greenleaf · 03-10-2004, 02:47 AM

That's the one, well done!

Lostgaeriel · 03-10-2004, 10:42 AM

Here's a cliché:

Quote:

Mind your Ps and Qs

Who said that to whom, when, where and why?

Evisse the Blue · 03-11-2004, 03:01 AM

I think that's Frodo advising his companions to behave sensibly when they arrive at the Prancing Pony. Chapter Fog on the Barrow Downs.
Am I right?

Lostgaeriel · 03-11-2004, 12:51 PM

Alas, Evisse the Blue, that's not correct. It's a different speaker and a different chapter. But you're in the neighbourhood. Feel free to open the book and look for the quote. That is the point of these games - to get to know the book better - to have an "excuse" to read parts of it again.

Sleepy Ranger · 03-11-2004, 01:06 PM

I think I've got it.
Merry to The other (3)Hobbits.
In the Chapter-At the Sign of the Prancing Pony.
The part where Merry says it'lll get to stuffy and he may go out for a sniff of air later.

Lostgaeriel · 03-12-2004, 12:38 AM

Yes, Sleepy Ranger, you have it!

Quote:

'I shall sit here quietly by the fire for a bit, and perhaps go out later for a sniff of the air. Mind your Ps and Qs, and don't forget that you are supposted to be escaping in secret, and are still on the high-road and not very far from the Shire!'

Merry is so sensible. (Well, except when he tried to follow the Black Rider a little while later.)

Your turn.

Sleepy Ranger · 03-12-2004, 04:04 AM

Quote:

Walk warily

400th post...........

rutslegolas · 03-12-2004, 07:44 AM

aragorn to pippin in moria??/

Sleepy Ranger · 03-12-2004, 11:25 AM

No.

Guinevere · 03-14-2004, 11:22 AM

That's a very short quote, Sleepy!

Could you at least give a hint from which book it is? (I'd guess from the Silm or UT...)

Sleepy Ranger · 03-14-2004, 11:33 AM

Its not from the Silm and I don't have the UT

Its not from the Hobbit either, nor from one of the HoME.

Thats your hint.................

Mariska Greenleaf · 03-17-2004, 06:58 AM

Merry to Legolas;

Sleepy Ranger · 03-17-2004, 11:43 AM

Yes thats it.

Guinevere · 03-17-2004, 02:00 PM

But where was that, if I may ask ?

Mariska Greenleaf · 03-18-2004, 05:25 AM

Guinevere, I found it in Two Towers, in the chapter: The voice of Saruman.

Ok, new one:

Quote:

They spoke much in their dreaming, before they sank into the deadly darkness.

Guinevere · 03-22-2004, 01:08 PM

That would be Gandalf in the Houses of Healing, about Merry and Eowyn. To whom? Um, Aragorn, Eomer, Pippin...

Mariska Greenleaf · 03-22-2004, 01:39 PM

Good work!
Proceed please.

02-06-2004, 02:32 PM	#242
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	That is in Fëanor's rousing speech to the Noldor,isn't it? __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

02-10-2004, 06:30 AM	#243
Mariska Greenleaf Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,036	Ja, that was it. __________________ I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.- Confucius.

02-11-2004, 11:20 AM	#245
Sleepy Ranger Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: On the field, kissing the 'Downs crest Posts: 1,654	Um, can I play? Hama to Gandalf? When Aragorn says you will not part an old man from his support thing. __________________ And tonight we can truly say, together we're invincible... Middle-Earth Football World Cup 2007

02-11-2004, 01:43 PM	#246
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	You're very welcome, Sleepy, and your answer is correct! Your turn! __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

02-11-2004, 02:05 PM	#248
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	Frodo to Sam, about how to use the contents of Galadriels box in the ravaged Shire. __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

02-12-2004, 01:52 AM	#249
Sleepy Ranger Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: On the field, kissing the 'Downs crest Posts: 1,654	yep, good going thats it. __________________ And tonight we can truly say, together we're invincible... Middle-Earth Football World Cup 2007

02-13-2004, 10:44 AM	#252
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	Yes, well done Evisse! __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

02-14-2004, 05:49 AM	#253
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	"Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart". __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

02-22-2004, 10:17 AM	#254
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	Melian to Túrin, if I remember rightly... __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

02-22-2004, 10:24 AM	#255
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	You do remember rightly. __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

02-24-2004, 03:51 PM	#257
Sleepy Ranger Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: On the field, kissing the 'Downs crest Posts: 1,654	Gildor to Frodo __________________ And tonight we can truly say, together we're invincible... Middle-Earth Football World Cup 2007

02-24-2004, 04:16 PM	#258
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	Right! That was a fast answer, Sleepy so you're apparently not so sleepy at all... __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

03-03-2004, 03:16 AM	#260
Mariska Greenleaf Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,036	Sam to Ted Sandyman about fireside tales and children's stories. __________________ I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.- Confucius.

03-03-2004, 02:24 PM	#261
Sleepy Ranger Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: On the field, kissing the 'Downs crest Posts: 1,654	Thats it __________________ And tonight we can truly say, together we're invincible... Middle-Earth Football World Cup 2007

03-09-2004, 10:53 AM	#263
Lostgaeriel Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Toronto the Good Posts: 477	That's Aragorn replying to Boromir's adage 'the wolf one hears is worse than the orc that one fears'. A Journey in the Dark - about 4 pages into that chapter. __________________ Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

03-10-2004, 02:47 AM	#264
Mariska Greenleaf Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,036	That's the one, well done! __________________ I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.- Confucius.

03-11-2004, 03:01 AM	#266
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	I think that's Frodo advising his companions to behave sensibly when they arrive at the Prancing Pony. Chapter Fog on the Barrow Downs. Am I right? __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

03-11-2004, 12:51 PM	#267
Lostgaeriel Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Toronto the Good Posts: 477	Alas, Evisse the Blue, that's not correct. It's a different speaker and a different chapter. But you're in the neighbourhood. Feel free to open the book and look for the quote. That is the point of these games - to get to know the book better - to have an "excuse" to read parts of it again. __________________ Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

03-11-2004, 01:06 PM	#268
Sleepy Ranger Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: On the field, kissing the 'Downs crest Posts: 1,654	I think I've got it. Merry to The other (3)Hobbits. In the Chapter-At the Sign of the Prancing Pony. The part where Merry says it'lll get to stuffy and he may go out for a sniff of air later. __________________ And tonight we can truly say, together we're invincible... Middle-Earth Football World Cup 2007

03-12-2004, 07:44 AM	#271
rutslegolas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In Elven Lands of India Posts: 533	aragorn to pippin in moria??/ __________________ If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with the bull - The Phantom.

03-12-2004, 11:25 AM	#272
Sleepy Ranger Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: On the field, kissing the 'Downs crest Posts: 1,654	No. __________________ And tonight we can truly say, together we're invincible... Middle-Earth Football World Cup 2007

03-14-2004, 11:22 AM	#273
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	That's a very short quote, Sleepy! Could you at least give a hint from which book it is? (I'd guess from the Silm or UT...) __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

03-14-2004, 11:33 AM	#274
Sleepy Ranger Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: On the field, kissing the 'Downs crest Posts: 1,654	Its not from the Silm and I don't have the UT Its not from the Hobbit either, nor from one of the HoME. Thats your hint................. __________________ And tonight we can truly say, together we're invincible... Middle-Earth Football World Cup 2007

03-17-2004, 06:58 AM	#275
Mariska Greenleaf Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,036	Merry to Legolas; __________________ I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.- Confucius.

03-17-2004, 11:43 AM	#276
Sleepy Ranger Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: On the field, kissing the 'Downs crest Posts: 1,654	Yes thats it. __________________ And tonight we can truly say, together we're invincible... Middle-Earth Football World Cup 2007

03-17-2004, 02:00 PM	#277
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	A question But where was that, if I may ask ? __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

03-22-2004, 01:08 PM	#279
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	That would be Gandalf in the Houses of Healing, about Merry and Eowyn. To whom? Um, Aragorn, Eomer, Pippin... __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

03-22-2004, 01:39 PM	#280
Mariska Greenleaf Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,036	Good work! Proceed please. __________________ I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.- Confucius.