Can we have a hint please?

I may give a hint by quoting Pink Floyd, I suppose:

"the wall was too high, he could not break through..."

he in the quote being Prosaist. But he was trying to avoid the necessity of breaking through the newly built wall anyways.

Well, additional help, as it may be:

Prosaist in question was apt not to force his way through the wall, though he had appropriate means to, but to negotiate the share of what was behind the wall. The person he was addressing was behind said wall too.

Ah, so Bard is the Prosaist then. I haven't the book to hand, but it goes something like:


Edit: Ah, now I have my book. The quote is:

that's the chap. go ahead :)

Next up
 

Thanks HI. :)

This may take some searching:

it certainly has. I personally feel like a hint :)

I second that motion - it sounds like it should be a Gollum quote, beginning with "yes, yes" and including "master", but I have searched and not been able to find it.

Hmm, seems like a hint may well be in order.
 

The quote is not from LotR, though it was said during the period covered by that book ...

Aaaaaaaaaaaah!! Tricksy Master Saucy!! I found it in the Unfinished Tales, 'The Hunt for the Ring' - Wormtongue is speaking to the Lord of the Nazgûl:

Correct!
 

Hehe! Well done, Esty. That's the one. :)

Please proceed ...

Here's a fast and easy one:

"Cold be hand and heart and bone,
And cold be sleep under stone"

That's right, Evisse - your turn!

work your way around this:
 

"You taught Miss Esmeralda that before you are old. You never heard from her poetry unlike this, failing to notice when you never wanted to see any Orcs."

That's Sam on Weathertop, speaking of the lay The Fall of Gil-Galad:

that's the one!
 

Therefore please continue. :)

Here's a new one:

easy :D

Wow! That was fast, HI! Well, I'm sure yours will be more difficult to find out... ;)

we shall see :)

it is easy, after all

edit: PS for Evisse - it is not from the Hobbit, chapter 15, by the way :D

Ah, this one is familiar, though it took me a few minutes to realize that it's from the Silmarillion. Beren says to Thingol:

fast and correct!
 

Proceed, for you earned the right and deservedly are entitled to :)

Try this one:

"Under the Mountain dark and tall
The King has come unto his hall!
His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread,
And ever so his foes shall fall."

. No, but this one is. LOL! :D

That's the correct quote, Evisse - though you didn't mention the speaker(s)...

The speakers are the dwarves singing their little victory song.
Now for the next versified roundabout:

Stillness will be on her naked scalp,
The dunes afar from her will dim,
Close by, we heard her weak and foul,
Come crawling like a rat.

a little hint, perhaps? :)

Famous ballad from LOTR.

o la la. thanks :). as I'm stuck on chapter 15 of the Hobbit, in your recent quizzing you seem to drool (if I may be allowed to use an expression) over Legolas ;). So Legolas it is, with the song of Nimrodel:

lol, that was just about as uninentional as your chapter 15 fixation...unintentional but maybe not entirely meaningless, as any psychoanalyst would not lose the opportunity to warn us... :rolleyes: ;)

Anyway - you're up!

Well, whatever Freid may have had to say, Huisinga rules in this thread. Victor Ludorum to go on, and next is up :D

Eureka!
 

First I got this:


Which, of course, made no sense at all. But then it led me to this:


Which is one of Bilbo's favourite bath-songs, as sung by Pippin at Crickhollow. And, by Jove, I do believe it's the answer. :)

spot on! Over to you :)

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How about this rather sad piece:


:( ;)

that took a while, but I've found it nevertheless :D

And when He hears their tapping feet,
Or faintly feels the sudden heat,
With smile
HE dives,
And promptly turning upside-down
He tips them off, and deep they drown,
And lose their silly lives
To their surprise,
Be wise!

HIM being Fastitocalon

That's the one. You're up, H-I. :)

well thank you :)

here we go again:

And the inverse of derry dol ...
 

... is of course ya hey! :D

It's the Goblin's song while setting fire to the trees in which Gandalf, Bilbo, Thorin and Co took had taken refuge:

yes of course :)