I definitely would like a hint. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
Greetings,
EfR

So would I!
Does "zegt" mean says? And je = I ?And "Worom zoekt ie joen uut" = Why do I (?) seek ---- out? What's joen? Schuld = guilt ?
Otherwise I can make neither head nor tail of this... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] You got me stumped!

So I thought! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Hints:
zegt: said
je/joen: you
schuld: blame

You translated the sentence almost perfectly Guinevere.
I hope this makes it easier... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I have now thought this over and over again and here are the results:
"He/she says this to take away the blame from him that you like to see. Why does he seek you, and ... ... a long time near you, and ??? ?"
I desperately need more hints.
Greetings, EfR

Okay, I seem to have made a tiny mistake here, I will set it straight:

The first "zegt": say
The second "zegt": said ( I should have translated it by: "zei".)

lange: long
bie: with
bliede: glad

extra hint: it is not in LOTR!
[img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 10:36 AM January 08, 2004: Message edited by: Mariska Greenleaf ]

Finally got it, thanks to your hints, and also thanks to the guessings of Elrond-of-Rivendell!
It's Gwindor talking to Finduilas about Turin in U.T.

Bravo! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Thank you, Mariska! That was quite difficult! Those "Gie" and "ie" and "je" confused me!

@ Elrond-of-Rivendell: would you perhaps like to proceed? Because it was really what you had found out, that brought me to the right track!

Of course I would. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Thank you Guinevere.
So now I'm taking my revenge. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
This is a quote translated into Letzebuergesch (Luxembourgish):


Have some fun. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]
Please tell me if you need some hints.

Greetings,
EfR

Well, for me your dialect wasn't difficult at all! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] It's Frodo at the Grey Havens, of course!
(I guess you would understand Swissgerman dialect just as well, Elrond! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )

Damn ... you got it dead right.
But maybe it was really too easy for you (I suppose you speak German, so Luxembourgish is very close). But I promise next time ... [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]
Please proceed Guinevere. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Greetings,
EfR

Thank you! (Italian again [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] )

I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; [...]
Bilbo's song - The ring goes south - FotR

That's it! (It was probably too easy as well? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )

Hehe if you speak Italian, the only difficulty is to look up the original quotation, but it was fine. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

So, I will now try French, although I suspect that this won't be too difficult either :

'C'est exactement ce que nous voudrions aussi,' dit _____. 'Nous ne sommes pas fatigués. Nous avons pris les choses à la légère. Nous étions mouillés, nous avions froid et faim, mais à tout cela on a maintenant remédié. Venez, asseyez-vous! Et si vous avez de l'herbe à fumer, nous allons vous bénir.'


Greetings,
EfR

Well, if no one else wants to have a go, I can't resist [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]: Gandalf to Barliman Butterbur, in "Homeward bound".

So you speak French too. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
Alright then, nice work, please proceed. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Greetings,
EfR

Thank you! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Well,here is a another language I can speak: Norwegian: Good luck! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Apparently Norwegian and Dutch are somehow languages that have the same basis or something, because I immediately figured this one out:

That was Frodo having a conversation with Pippin.

Correct, of course, Mariska! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Well, all the Germanic languages are related...

I honestly didn't know that Norwegian was considered as a germanic language... [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

Dutch again, I hope you're not too bored by it... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

'Let us rest, if we can. Things have gone well so far, and the greater part of the dark road is over. But we are not through yet, and it is a long way down to the Gates that open on the world.'

Gandalf speaks to the Fellowship in the Mines of Moria.
EDIT: The Fellowship of the Ring - A journey in the dark

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 5:27 PM January 14, 2004: Message edited by: Elrond of Rivendell ]

That's the one!
You're up, Elrond. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Well thank you.
Now I've run out of languages. So I'm going to try my native tongue again, this one with a little tougher quote (or so I hope at least):

'Een oppenen Krich géif näischt bréngen; an souwisou as et fier dech onméiglech, een z'arrangéieren. Du wärs eppes méi einfaches and trotzdem méi kurajhéiertes probéiere mussen, en fait eppes verzweifeltes.'

(Quote in Luxembourgish)

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 7:30 PM January 15, 2004: Message edited by: Elrond of Rivendell ]

Hm, the words were not hard to understand, but it took me some time to figure out, where this quote comes from! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Gandalf speaking to Thorin in "the Quest of Erebor".

Again perfectly correct. Go on. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Greetings,
EfR

Hm, I've run out of languages as well, it seems; so I'll resort to my native dialect too! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] God luck!

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 10:44 AM January 18, 2004: Message edited by: Guinevere ]

Hehe, it was probably too easy, but I simply could not resist. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

'He would come with me, of course, if I asked him. In fact he offered to once, just before the party. But he does not really want to, yet. I want to see the wild country again before I die, and the Mountains; but he is still in love with the Shire, with woods and fields and little rivers.'

LotR - FotR - A long-expected Party - Bilbo Baggins to Gandalf just prior to his departure.

Greetings,
EfR

Exactly! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Well to keep this thread going, I will now try something I haven't done for years (Latin). But this will need some time of elaboration. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Edit: Mmhmm. Latin is tougher than I thought. So I will try Portuguese instead. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

'Nós podemos nao entendê-lo, mas aquela raposa velha nos entende', disse _____. 'Figue atento agora e veja o que acontece.'

EfR

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 2:02 PM January 20, 2004: Message edited by: Elrond of Rivendell ]

Hint, please. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

-Menelien

I attempted to translate this long ago, but I've no idea where it is from...
What's the exact meaning of "entende"?

What I have understood so far is this:
"We cannot understand (or recognize?) him, but this fox scoundrel understands (recognizes) us." said _________. "Pay attention now what happens."

Perhaps someone else recognizes this?

Isn't there anyone who can solve this? :rolleyes: Or could you give a hint, Elrond?

raposa?
 

That'd be Balin about the thrush

but why translate bird as fox?

So that's the answer to this riddle! :D
Well, in my portuguese dictionary raposa i translated as fox. That put me completely off the track!
And I guessed "velha" wrongly ..

well, I was led to consider passing foxes and sleeping be... I mean, hobbits at first too, but those bits about understanding, and 'old' too, made the thing :)

Yet, de jure, we need Elrond's confirmation, of course

Well, here's Elrond's confirmation and his sincere apologies for the bird/fox mixing up. I don't what went wrong, but I was SO sure about raposa. :(
Next time, I will check every single word in my dictionary. :D
Anyway, it is your turn Heren Istarin.
Greetings,
EfR

No worries, mate, no worries :)

next one will be Russian (in latin transliteration):

dare your luck

Well, yes, I certainly do need a hint; but where are all those who know Russian (Galadriel of the Olden, Le petit Choux etc) ? Perhaps we scared them away by so many posts in French, Dutch, German , Italian etc ? :( I do hope they will come back, though .;)

Well, in hope they indeed appear, I will give you a clue as of context - the conversation the quote is extracted of takes place between father and son

In case they appear not:

vosemnadcat - eighteen
dlia posta - for fast
otec - father

Good luck :)