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Estelyn Telcontar

10-10-2002 01:54 PM

Correct, zifnab - the second sentence is it! Now you get to try!

zifnab

10-10-2002 02:17 PM

Thanks Esty. I'm fairly new to this type of 'quoting' so bear with me if it's not up to par.

Quote:

‘No’, thought Arwen willing, ‘He should not have done it. He has a desire to not sell numerous race horses.

[ October 10, 2002: Message edited by: zifnab ]

Estelyn Telcontar

10-10-2002 02:27 PM

Nice one, zifnab! Here's the original:

Quote:

'Yes,' said Strider reluctantly, 'you had better do that. I am afraid we shall have to try to get one pony at least.'

zifnab

10-10-2002 02:29 PM

That's right Esty! Good job! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Estelyn Telcontar

10-10-2002 02:38 PM

Let's see if you can figure this one out:

Quote:

When I've been awake a long time, hot sand under the feet is different from drought under crisp carrots.

Susan Delgado

10-10-2002 03:27 PM

Though I've not consulted the book, it sounds like someone(Sam?) saying, "When I'm napping, cold water in the face is the same as...a flood of limp potatos?

The last part doesn't seem quite right, though

Estelyn Telcontar

10-11-2002 12:18 AM

You're thinking in the right direction, Susan; the 'limp potatoes' tickle me! Keep going and you'll find it.

Childlike Empress

10-11-2002 12:22 AM

Can we have a hintlet, please? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion

10-11-2002 04:47 AM

Susan's whole post was one great hint, heh

it's Sam of course:

Quote:

But if you're short of sleep cold water on the neck's like rain on a wilted lettuce

but i'll gladly pass the right to proceed to Susan, for she got it to be honest, I just looked up the exact quote

Estelyn Telcontar

10-11-2002 07:08 AM

OK then, Susan - I'm looking forward to what you come up with!

Susan Delgado

10-11-2002 10:47 PM

Thanks, HI [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Quote:

Well he knows the moods of the earth, as do all who fly through the air

[ October 12, 2002: Message edited by: Susan Delgado ]

HerenIstarion

10-12-2002 12:55 AM

Bard?

Quote:

They do not understand war above ground, whatever they may know of battle in the mines

Susan Delgado

10-12-2002 01:29 AM

Good guess! But not even close [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Estelyn Telcontar

10-15-2002 01:14 AM

Susan, will you give us a clue, please, or narrow down the scope of the search? I'm looking through LotR, but haven't located that quote yet.

HerenIstarion

10-15-2002 02:28 AM

May it be description of Morgoth's servants from Sil:

Quote:

Water all his servants shunned, and to the sea none would willingly go nigh, save in dire need

water as opposite to both earth an air? "Dire need" as opposite to "mood"

...?

Susan Delgado

10-15-2002 08:09 AM

It's in Fellowship

Lothiriel Silmarien

10-15-2002 01:26 PM

Goldberry? Is the quote about Tom Bombadil?

Susan Delgado

10-16-2002 12:30 AM

Close, but no cigar [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

edit: What quote were you thinking of?

[ October 16, 2002: Message edited by: Susan Delgado ]

Estelyn Telcontar

10-16-2002 07:40 AM

I think I found it; Tom Bombadil speaking of himself:

Quote:

'I am no weather-master,' he said; 'nor is aught that goes on two legs.'

I certainly hope that's right - this has had me puzzled (and searching) for days!

Susan Delgado

10-16-2002 08:15 AM

You got it! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion

10-17-2002 12:49 AM

wow, Susan, nice little cracker it was [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Estelyn Telcontar

10-17-2002 01:23 AM

Here's a new one:

Quote:

You sit under a wonderful plain, but it is faintly light out of the mountain behind my head, and I am sure there is darkness before you, you see.

Have fun!

HerenIstarion

10-17-2002 02:06 AM

that's Faramir to Eowyn in Houses of healing:

Quote:

I stand upon some dreadful brink, and it is utterly dark in the abyss before my feet, but whether there is any light behind me I cannot tell

Estelyn Telcontar

10-17-2002 03:03 AM

Right quote, HI, wrong person - look again! (That was fast, by the way!)

HerenIstarion

10-17-2002 03:09 AM

em, ur, yes, it's other way round [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] , that's Eowyn to Faramir

Estelyn Telcontar

10-17-2002 03:17 AM

Now you have it - you're next!

HerenIstarion

10-17-2002 03:51 AM

well:

Quote:

He has undone it as he was commanded and stayed as he was displeased

Estelyn Telcontar

10-22-2002 05:59 AM

I'm searching, HI, but have found nothing so far. Can you give a little hint please?

HerenIstarion

10-22-2002 06:14 AM

The tense is reversed as well. Person quoted speaks about some intended future actions [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion

10-24-2002 11:46 PM

FoTR

Estelyn Telcontar

10-25-2002 07:39 AM

I am still searching, HI - one more clue, please - is it said in the first or second person?

[ October 25, 2002: Message edited by: Estelyn Telcontar ]

Susan Delgado

10-25-2002 05:29 PM

Is it Frodo thinking about Lobelia?

Quote:

She must have thought of something really nasty, and have come back again to say it.

Laivine

10-26-2002 05:59 AM

Is it Sam in the house of Elrond or something? Well, it probably isn't, but I had to guess [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion

10-27-2002 11:51 PM

Welcome to the Downs Laivine [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

First person, Estelyn

Childlike Empress

10-28-2002 12:12 AM

Sounds like "I will do as I wish and leave when I am satisfied" but I can't think who'd say something like that. Bill Ferny?

HerenIstarion

10-28-2002 12:44 AM

Childlike Empress, quote you give sounds almost as it is in the book, though person is wrong

Laivine

10-28-2002 09:02 AM

Quote:

Welcome to the Downs Laivine

Thank you HerenIstarion [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion

10-30-2002 12:45 AM

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

Estelyn Telcontar

10-30-2002 07:15 AM

...tossing a guess into the ring - Gandalf?

HerenIstarion

10-30-2002 08:06 AM

Hotter than ever. Final hint - if nobody gets it after this, I'll proclaim myself victorious [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Gandalf was whom person (mis)quoted was addressing

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