The Tolkien Translation Game!

[Inanna]

Is it Frodo talking about food?

[Frelga]

Is it said in Bree?

[Jude]

After Bree, not about food.

[Inanna]

So it is Frodo speaking?

Is it only Frodo and Sam in the conversation?

[Jude]

It is Frodo speaking. Sam is present, but so are a few others, and the remark was not directed specifically to Sam.

[Jude]

It's spoken during the journey to Rivendell. So that should tell you everyone who's present...

[Alatar]

Frodo to Strider. About the journey from Weathertop to Rivendell

'A fortnight!' said Frodo. 'A lot may happen in that time.'

[Jude]

That's the one!!!

[Alatar]

[Jude]

That's Bilbo at the Council of Elrond:

"Say no more! It is plain enough what you are pointing at. Bilbo the silly hobbit started this affair, and Bilbo had better finish it, or himself. I was very comfortable here, and getting on with my book. If you want to know, I am just writing an ending for it. I had thought of putting: and he lived happily ever afterwards to the end of his days. It is a good ending, and none the worse for having been used before. Now I shall have to alter that: it does not look like coming true, and evidently there will have to be several more chapters, if I live to write them. It is a frightful nuisance. When ought I to start?"

[Inanna]

[Alatar]

"From here, from the east, and from the west, send messengers to our relatives in the north of the mountain, telling them what we are doing."

[Voronwë the Faithful]

It sounds like Thorin to Róac Carc's son: "Also I would beg of you, if any of you are still young and strong of wing, that you would send messengers to our kin in the mountains of the North, both west from here and east, and tell them of our plight."

[Alatar]

Yep. I thought it would be an easy one given reference to "the mountain" and "relatives"

[Voronwë the Faithful]

There is something interesting about this. But you have to wait until you get in.

[Inanna]

Book?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Yup!

LOTR

[Jude]

Is it spoken in Moria?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Earlier.

[Jude]

Is the translation fairly accurate in meaning?