He uses that phrase a lot... Maybe this one:

"You are not wise to be glad of the Yellow Face."

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

That's the one!

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

Do we have a new one?

Inanna?

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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.'

Sorry!

Here we go:

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

Is it some unidentified Hobbit at the gate when the travelers first return to the Shire, 'Can’t you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?’

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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.'

Yes. Just the last sentence “no admittance..”

Cool. Your turn.

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

But the curse of the shadow gate that breaks some beggars is at least a promise of fate.

This was significantly reduced from the original, which was two sentences long. Good luck.

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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 the Mouth of Sauron?

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

No. Not LOTR.

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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.'

Was it spoken by Smaug?

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Is it spoken to or by Gorlim?

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

No and no. But Al is in the right book.

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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 think we may need a hint...

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First I had to remember what it was!

Al was actually in the right chapter. Not only was the original quote significantly reduced from two long sentences to one shorter one, the order of the phrases was reversed.

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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 think I've found it:

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You have indeed found it! Impressively well done!

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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 thought I would make things easy by including a quote that had a Tolkien-invented word in it that would make it through the translator, but half-way through it got changed to "BARAR" in all-caps.

Here's how it ended up:



Earlier on:



The original word has the same vowels.

Feel free to ask for hints - two keywords survived, and the original has a synonym for "anger".

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BARAR? Wow.

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

Valar?

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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

Yes!

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