The Tolkien Translation Game!
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Hmm. Ok. Its someone quoting someone else!
The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End
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Hmm ok.
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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Legolas quoting Galadriel to Gimli?
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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Nope. This character gets regularly quoted!
The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End
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Sam quoting his Gaffer? I can't quite recall the specific quote.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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I've been nagging at it in the back of my mind, and the problem for me is, i;'s just so short—there's no pattern I can see that serves as a hint.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Its Sam quoting the gaffer. Hint, never look at the length of the quote, they regularly get dramatically shortened. Look at the words.
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I've gathered that. But the shortened quote just has very few pegs on which to hang guesses at the original.
Gripe, gripe. In other words, you've come up with a doozy, Alatar!
Gripe, gripe. In other words, you've come up with a doozy, Alatar!
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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"Its the job that's never started as takes longest to finish"?
(Does it count as cheating if I googled around for quotes about the gaffer? If so, my apologies!)
(Does it count as cheating if I googled around for quotes about the gaffer? If so, my apologies!)
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
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If that's cheating, we will never guess anything in this game. 
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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Yov you have to come up with a quote now.
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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Oh, ok, right. I think this one should be pretty easy.
I half half half half input see deserve to know you.
Half!
I half half half half input see deserve to know you.
Half!
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
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That's hilarious! But I think I'll leave it for someone else to give the (rather obvious) answer.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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I have 1/16th of the input required to see if I deserve to know you? Sounds like Faramir, he was the nerd in the story.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Ha ha. I'll bite. I obviously am not an angel.
Bilbo Baggins at the party. I
Know half of you half as well as I would like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve
Bilbo Baggins at the party. I
Know half of you half as well as I would like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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You are double half right. 
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
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From the top of the Hill was like thunder.
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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No takers?
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Is it a quote from someone?
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."