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Old 04-24-2021, 05:34 AM   #36
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I'll look over what you've just posted later, Greenie, but first I want to muck about with quotes. ^_^ I've been putting together a Spectral Lexicon, starting with how to say where the information comes from, and then trying to find ways to point at specific people.

I've limited myself to the "published Legendarium fiction" texts: Hobbit, LotR, Silm, UT, and the three Great Tales. The rules don't actually require this! We could quote from the Letters if we wanted, though I'm not sure how much help it would be.

Citing the Mods:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Silm: Ainulindale
And it came to pass that Ilúvatar called together all the Ainur and declared to them a mighty theme, unfolding to them things greater and more wonderful than he had yet revealed; and the glory of its beginning and the splendour of its end amazed the Ainur, so that they bowed before Ilúvatar and were silent.
Citing the Seer:

Quote:
Originally Posted by RotK: The Passing of the Grey Company
‘And what may be the words of the seer?’ said Legolas.
Citing 'this is just our belief':

Quote:
Originally Posted by FotR: The Shadow of the Past
But at last I can carry on the story, I think.
Five of the survivors are pretty easy to indicate:

Boro:

Quote:
Originally Posted by FotR: The Council of Elrond
`Here,' said Elrond, turning to Gandalf, `is Boromir, a man from the South.
Legate:

Quote:
Originally Posted by UT: The Disaster of the Gladden Fields (footnote)
Amon Lanc, "Naked Hill," was the highest point in the highland at the south-west corner of the Greenwood, and was so called because no trees grew on its summit.
Soriman:

Quote:
Originally Posted by FotR: The Council of Elrond
And I would ask this also. What of Saruman?
Pitch:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hobbit: Flies and Spiders
It then became pitch-dark—not what you call pitch-dark, but really pitch: so black that you really could see nothing.
Morsul:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark
I guess it’s a choice feast; at least a tasty morsel it’d make us, gollum!
The other four I think can only be easily clued when it's obvious we're clueing names:

Sally:

Quote:
Originally Posted by FoG: The Tale of the Fall of Gondolin
Thither too fared Salgant atremble at the tidings, and other nobles beside of less blood but better heart.
Kath:

Quote:
Originally Posted by FotR: A Journey in the Dark
He is surer of finding the way home in a blind night than the cats of Queen Berúthiel.
Lottie:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hobbit: Roast Mutton
“Yes, lots,” said Bilbo, before he remembered not to give his friends away.
Lommy:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Silm: Of Turin Turambar
As thralls thy mother and thy sister live in Dor-lómin, in misery and want.
(I wanted to use 'Lomion', but the only Silm quote is a huge sentence.)

And some possible actually-informative lines.

There is one wolf in this group/this person is a wolf:

Quote:
Originally Posted by FotR: A Journey in the Dark
At a gap in the circle a great dark wolf-shape could be seen halted, gazing at them.
There are multiple wolves in this group:

Quote:
Originally Posted by RotK: The Siege of Gondor
More than one host may issue from it, and strike for more than one passage.
This person is innocent:

Quote:
Originally Posted by UT: The History of Galadriel and Celeborn
Thus the Dwarves of Moria may be presumed to have been innocent of the ruin of Doriath and not hostile to the Elves.
I'd appreciate a Mod nudge if any of these would be unacceptable for some reason.

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