The first two I think. Need to go check.

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

Was "blacksmith" somehow derived from "burgler"?

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Nope

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

Are the first two words also the first two words of the original quote?

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

They are.

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

Is it Gandalf speaking? Or the Elf-king?

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Gandalf

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

"After all he is my friend," said the wizard, "and not a bad little chap."

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Thats the one! Dunno where Blacksmith came from?

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

Weird!

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

This shouldn't be too hard, I don't think.

Many of them are nuts and acorn trees? Now, my friend, it no longer hear the creatures know.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Is it Treebeard, about the woods devastated by Saruman?

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

Yup. Do you have the quote?

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost forever now.

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

You got it!

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Do we have a new quote?

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

I am going to post this simply for the bizarreness of the translation. Not a single word, or the overall meaning, of the translated sentence relates to the original, except that the original sentence starts with Yes.

Yeah, so what's getting to you, ma'am?

If this it too annoying, I'll post a better quote later today.

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

Is it even directed towards or referring in any way to a female (as the ma'am would suggest)?

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Not at all. The speaker is in fact alone at the moment (although the word "you" is also in the original).

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

Is the speaker a woman?

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*title copyright: Teremia

'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude (as Merry)