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HerenIstarion · 08-25-2003, 01:17 PM

Deirdre got it right

Since it is supposed to have quotes transcripted into latin alphabets (for those who have no acadnusx family fonts mine looks latin [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img], those who have supposedly are literate in Georgian), I suggest she would be generous to rephrase her quote once again

thanks

And of course I'm awfully glad to welcome you here

08-25-2003, 10:53 PM

Aye, Heren Istarion, nice to meet you here.
now you know that there are people literate in Georgian here, so be very careful [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

there is the quote, if I am allowed.

"Vot chto skazal pered smertiu namestnik Gondora: mozhet bit i oderzhite vi pobedu u sten Minas-Tirita no udar, zanesenni nad vami, ne otrazit. On govoril eto v otchaianii i vse zhe slova ego pravidivi."

Language: Russian.
Clues: smert` - death
pobeda - victory
otchaianie - despair

optimal set of words for anything, is not it? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Mariska Greenleaf · 09-03-2003, 02:57 AM

I think we need some more hints here... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

09-04-2003, 11:45 PM

stena - wall
udar - attack (here)
otrazit - rebut, repulse
pravdivie slova - true words

[img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] I thought it`s just so easy. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion · 09-14-2003, 12:26 AM

that is Gandalf quoting Denethor in The Las debate:

Quote:

You may triumph on the fields of the Pelennor for a day, but against the Power that has now arisen there is no victory.

Guinevere · 09-14-2003, 01:41 PM

[img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] Is it really?! Given those clues I immediately thought of that very quote too, but since the words weren't the same I gave up. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Here is what PetitChoux said at the beginning of the tread:

Quote:

Basically, you find a quote and translate it literally into another language. Not from the book in, say, german, but you must translate it yourself.

[ September 14, 2003: Message edited by: Guinevere ]

09-15-2003, 12:23 AM

Heren Istarion, you are right. Thanks.
Am saitze aghar shemoval, ase rom kargad ikavi, mshvidobit. imedia, arasodes aghar shegxvdebi.

HerenIstarion · 09-16-2003, 10:57 AM

My compliments

next one to follow:

Quote:

'Sort, vous deux, et partons nous. Maintenant nous savons que qui a fait le sentier – et nous avions mieux partir d'ici rapidement

French

Guinevere · 09-16-2003, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Come out you two, and let us get away. Now we know who made the path - and we had better get off it quick.

Pippin to Strider and Merry when they were exploring the troll-hole, on the way from Weathertop to the ford of Bruinen.
[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Jack · 09-25-2003, 11:14 AM

o boy, how do you find all this stuff? Do you all have books of radom langueges or do you actuely speak this stuff (I only know a little Spanish and am taking French)

HerenIstarion · 09-26-2003, 06:07 AM

Welcome to the BD, and to this thread in particular, dear Jack

Read the rules on the first page of the thread. Or, if you want it in summed up form = no, no books are allowed, people are literally translating bits of the English text to the languages they actually know. Knowing French and Spanish, you are mostly fit to plunge in. One guessing out the previous riddle and having the answer confirmed by the riddler may pose another question

cheers

So, Guinevere've got it right. Apologies for a delay

Guinevere · 09-26-2003, 09:22 AM

Never mind, H.I.! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I'll try some Italian again. (Shouldn't be too difficult for those who know French or Spanish or Latin... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )

Quote:

"Canzoni come alberi portano frutti solo nel loro proprio tempo e nel loro proprio modo e talvolta sono appassiti intempestivo."

HerenIstarion · 10-11-2003, 09:19 AM

That's Treebeard to Merry and Pippin concerning lost entwives and their song-prophecied reunion:

Quote:

Songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely

Guinevere · 10-12-2003, 06:11 AM

Bravo, HerenIstarion! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
(Well, I was sure you could read it! But I wonder where all the other guessers are...)

HerenIstarion · 10-14-2003, 06:21 AM

Thanks Guinevere

Next one will be again in Russian:

"no u malenkix ptichek ne bilo kril'ev
tak chto je nam delat so smeshnimi maliutkami?'

good luck

LePetitChoux · 10-15-2003, 03:05 PM

The Song of the Goblins in the Hobbit!
(Sorry, I don't have the book on me [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] )

Edit: I meant the one sung when the Dwarves were up the trees)

[ October 15, 2003: Message edited by: LePetitChoux ]

Seagull Jonathan L. · 10-20-2003, 11:56 PM

Should we try Ukrainian?
Quote:
I zhilo u tiy pecheri slyz'ke chudovs'ko Gam gam.

**The Saucepan Man** · 10-21-2003, 12:37 PM

Hello there, Jonathan L Seagull, and welcome to the Downs. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Please read the Quotable Quotes rules, which set out the guidelines for participating in this forum (there are similar rules for the Quiz forum too).

As you will see, you must answer a question correctly (generally by identifying the given quote) before you can ask the next one. As it is, we are waiting for Heren Istarian to confirm Le Petit Choux's answer. Assuming that she's right, it will then be her turn to ask the next question.

Thanks for joining in, though, and I hope that you enjoy yourself here. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Seagull Jonathan L. · 10-21-2003, 04:48 PM

Sorry.And thanks. I actualy i did read the rules,but after I posted the massage.Sorry again

LePetitChoux · 10-26-2003, 05:25 AM

HerenIstarion told me that I was correct by email (something is wrong with his computer at the moment), but I really can't think of anything, because I don't have my French dictionary on me and Russian would be kinda boring for the second time....so, I am going to pass the golden stick of Quizmastery over to Seagull Jonathan L.

LePetitChoux · 10-26-2003, 05:28 AM

Just to remind everyone of the quote, to avoid confusion:
Seagull Jonathan L. posted:

Quote:

I zhilo u tiy pecheri slyz'ke chudovs'ko Gam gam.

My guess is that it's the description of Gollum in the Hobbit, (sorry, don't have the book on me) something along the lines of: "In that cave lived a rather slimy creature called Gollum."
[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Seagull Jonathan L. · 11-04-2003, 12:39 AM

Yep you are right.The translation is; In that cave lived slimy beast named Gollum

LePetitChoux · 11-04-2003, 02:15 PM

So....I'm boring and will do Russian yet again.

Quote:

Esli ya smogu tebya spasti zhizn'yu ili smert'yu, to ya eto sdelayu.

Nice, short, easy one. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

LePetitChoux · 11-06-2003, 12:27 PM

Anyone?

Mariska Greenleaf · 11-07-2003, 06:10 AM

russian is like chinese to me... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[ November 07, 2003: Message edited by: Mariska Greenleaf ]

GaladrieloftheOlden · 11-07-2003, 06:12 AM

I don't have the book in front of me, but Aragorn at the Council of Elrond?

-Menelien

LePetitChoux · 11-07-2003, 11:56 AM

Could you possibly give the vague quote so I can tell which of Aragorn's many phrases you mean? Sorry for being picky! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

GaladrieloftheOlden · 11-07-2003, 03:22 PM

Quote:

If, by my life or death, I can save you, I will.

[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

-Menelien

LePetitChoux · 11-08-2003, 05:43 AM

Yes indeedy!
[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

GaladrieloftheOlden · 11-09-2003, 04:04 PM

Quote:

"Nu, _____," skazal ____, "kuda ty idesh?" "Shto eto tebe?" on otvetil.

-Menelien

Edit: Yeah, Russian again...

[ November 09, 2003: Message edited by: GaladrieloftheOlden ]

LePetitChoux · 11-10-2003, 01:41 PM

Sounds like something hobbity, but I can't say.
Gosh, it's so annoying when you can translate it, but can't find the actual quote! [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

GaladrieloftheOlden · 11-10-2003, 01:50 PM

Heh, I know what you mean. Want a hint? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

-Menelien

LePetitChoux · 11-10-2003, 03:35 PM

Oooh, yes please! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

GaladrieloftheOlden · 11-11-2003, 01:07 PM

It's in RotK. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

-Menelien

LePetitChoux · 11-17-2003, 07:11 AM

Found it! (I actually thought that this might be it...really. I did.)

"Well Saruman!" said Gandalf. "Where are you going?"

"What is that to you?" he answered.

[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

GaladrieloftheOlden · 11-17-2003, 06:04 PM

Yep. Go on. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

-Menelien

LePetitChoux · 11-19-2003, 02:38 PM

"Dai im eto," skazal _______, ischa v svoyei sume, i dostavaya kozhaniy kurdiyuk. "Odin glotok- dlia nas vseh. Eto ochen tsenno. Eto ________, mors _______. _______ evo mne dal kogda my rasstalis'. Peredaite po krugu!"

Good luck.
[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

(Russian again, boring old me)

GaladrieloftheOlden · 11-19-2003, 08:18 PM

Once again, no book on me, but Aragorn in FotR when he's handing out the miruvor at Caradhras?

-Menelien

LePetitChoux · 11-20-2003, 02:40 PM

Oooh, so close, so close....

LePetitChoux · 11-22-2003, 06:45 AM

Clue: right quote, wrong speaker

[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

08-25-2003, 01:17 PM	#241
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Deirdre got it right Since it is supposed to have quotes transcripted into latin alphabets (for those who have no acadnusx family fonts mine looks latin [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img], those who have supposedly are literate in Georgian), I suggest she would be generous to rephrase her quote once again thanks And of course I'm awfully glad to welcome you here __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time! Last edited by HerenIstarion; 12-01-2005 at 12:47 AM. Reason: sweeping party

09-03-2003, 02:57 AM	#243
Mariska Greenleaf Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,036	I think we need some more hints here... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] __________________ I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.- Confucius.

09-25-2003, 11:14 AM	#250
Jack Haunting Spirit Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Rohan or some where there abouts (probably lost!) Posts: 92	o boy, how do you find all this stuff? Do you all have books of radom langueges or do you actuely speak this stuff (I only know a little Spanish and am taking French) __________________ I have been: eating sugar, drinking caffeinated soda, doing the wave, the disco and various other dances just as, if not more humiliating, and all in all, acting like the deranged Pirate that I am…

09-26-2003, 06:07 AM	#251
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Welcome to the BD, and to this thread in particular, dear Jack Read the rules on the first page of the thread. Or, if you want it in summed up form = no, no books are allowed, people are literally translating bits of the English text to the languages they actually know. Knowing French and Spanish, you are mostly fit to plunge in. One guessing out the previous riddle and having the answer confirmed by the riddler may pose another question cheers So, Guinevere've got it right. Apologies for a delay __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time! Last edited by HerenIstarion; 12-01-2005 at 12:48 AM. Reason: sweeping party

10-12-2003, 06:11 AM	#254
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	Bravo, HerenIstarion! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] (Well, I was sure you could read it! But I wonder where all the other guessers are...) __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

08-25-2003, 10:53 PM	#242
Deirdre Guest Posts: n/a	Aye, Heren Istarion, nice to meet you here. now you know that there are people literate in Georgian here, so be very careful [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] there is the quote, if I am allowed. "Vot chto skazal pered smertiu namestnik Gondora: mozhet bit i oderzhite vi pobedu u sten Minas-Tirita no udar, zanesenni nad vami, ne otrazit. On govoril eto v otchaianii i vse zhe slova ego pravidivi." Language: Russian. Clues: smert` - death pobeda - victory otchaianie - despair optimal set of words for anything, is not it? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

09-04-2003, 11:45 PM	#244
Deirdre Guest Posts: n/a	stena - wall udar - attack (here) otrazit - rebut, repulse pravdivie slova - true words [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] I thought it`s just so easy. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

09-15-2003, 12:23 AM	#247
Deirdre Guest Posts: n/a	Heren Istarion, you are right. Thanks. Am saitze aghar shemoval, ase rom kargad ikavi, mshvidobit. imedia, arasodes aghar shegxvdebi.

10-14-2003, 06:21 AM	#255
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Thanks Guinevere Next one will be again in Russian: "no u malenkix ptichek ne bilo kril'ev tak chto je nam delat so smeshnimi maliutkami?' good luck __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time! Last edited by HerenIstarion; 12-01-2005 at 12:49 AM. Reason: sweeping party

10-15-2003, 03:05 PM	#256
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	The Song of the Goblins in the Hobbit! (Sorry, I don't have the book on me [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] ) Edit: I meant the one sung when the Dwarves were up the trees) [ October 15, 2003: Message edited by: LePetitChoux ] __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

10-20-2003, 11:56 PM	#257
Seagull Jonathan L. Pile O'Bones Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 13	Should we try Ukrainian? Quote: I zhilo u tiy pecheri slyz'ke chudovs'ko Gam gam. __________________ In Tyler we trust.

10-21-2003, 12:37 PM	#258
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Hello there, Jonathan L Seagull, and welcome to the Downs. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Please read the Quotable Quotes rules, which set out the guidelines for participating in this forum (there are similar rules for the Quiz forum too). As you will see, you must answer a question correctly (generally by identifying the given quote) before you can ask the next one. As it is, we are waiting for Heren Istarian to confirm Le Petit Choux's answer. Assuming that she's right, it will then be her turn to ask the next question. Thanks for joining in, though, and I hope that you enjoy yourself here. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

10-21-2003, 04:48 PM	#259
Seagull Jonathan L. Pile O'Bones Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 13	Sorry.And thanks. I actualy i did read the rules,but after I posted the massage.Sorry again __________________ In Tyler we trust.

10-26-2003, 05:25 AM	#260
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	HerenIstarion told me that I was correct by email (something is wrong with his computer at the moment), but I really can't think of anything, because I don't have my French dictionary on me and Russian would be kinda boring for the second time....so, I am going to pass the golden stick of Quizmastery over to Seagull Jonathan L. __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

11-04-2003, 12:39 AM	#262
Seagull Jonathan L. Pile O'Bones Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 13	Yep you are right.The translation is; In that cave lived slimy beast named Gollum __________________ In Tyler we trust.

11-06-2003, 12:27 PM	#264
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Anyone? __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

11-07-2003, 06:10 AM	#265
Mariska Greenleaf Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,036	russian is like chinese to me... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [ November 07, 2003: Message edited by: Mariska Greenleaf ] __________________ I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.- Confucius.

11-07-2003, 06:12 AM	#266
GaladrieloftheOlden Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Massachusetts - digging up a bottomless hole, searching for something that's not there... Posts: 1,514	I don't have the book in front of me, but Aragorn at the Council of Elrond? -Menelien __________________ "Glue... very powerful stuff."

11-07-2003, 11:56 AM	#267
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Could you possibly give the vague quote so I can tell which of Aragorn's many phrases you mean? Sorry for being picky! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

11-08-2003, 05:43 AM	#269
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Yes indeedy! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

11-10-2003, 01:41 PM	#271
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Sounds like something hobbity, but I can't say. Gosh, it's so annoying when you can translate it, but can't find the actual quote! [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

11-10-2003, 01:50 PM	#272
GaladrieloftheOlden Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Massachusetts - digging up a bottomless hole, searching for something that's not there... Posts: 1,514	Heh, I know what you mean. Want a hint? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] -Menelien __________________ "Glue... very powerful stuff."

11-10-2003, 03:35 PM	#273
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Oooh, yes please! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

11-11-2003, 01:07 PM	#274
GaladrieloftheOlden Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Massachusetts - digging up a bottomless hole, searching for something that's not there... Posts: 1,514	It's in RotK. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] -Menelien __________________ "Glue... very powerful stuff."

11-17-2003, 07:11 AM	#275
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Found it! (I actually thought that this might be it...really. I did.) "Well Saruman!" said Gandalf. "Where are you going?" "What is that to you?" he answered. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

11-17-2003, 06:04 PM	#276
GaladrieloftheOlden Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Massachusetts - digging up a bottomless hole, searching for something that's not there... Posts: 1,514	Yep. Go on. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] -Menelien __________________ "Glue... very powerful stuff."

11-19-2003, 02:38 PM	#277
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	"Dai im eto," skazal _______, ischa v svoyei sume, i dostavaya kozhaniy kurdiyuk. "Odin glotok- dlia nas vseh. Eto ochen tsenno. Eto ________, mors _______. _______ evo mne dal kogda my rasstalis'. Peredaite po krugu!" Good luck. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] (Russian again, boring old me) __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

11-19-2003, 08:18 PM	#278
GaladrieloftheOlden Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Massachusetts - digging up a bottomless hole, searching for something that's not there... Posts: 1,514	Once again, no book on me, but Aragorn in FotR when he's handing out the miruvor at Caradhras? -Menelien __________________ "Glue... very powerful stuff."

11-20-2003, 02:40 PM	#279
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Oooh, so close, so close.... __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

11-22-2003, 06:45 AM	#280
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	Clue: right quote, wrong speaker [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ je suis une bonne odeur