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Old 03-15-2005, 10:39 AM   #1
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thanks for the hint but...

as it happens I do not have the particular book at my hand. I guess I'll just have to drag myself to the library...
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Old 04-13-2005, 06:14 AM   #2
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I'll take a guess Could it be:

"They are making songs which say that in his day the rivers run with gold."

Balin speaking to Bilbo about the new Master of Lake-town (right at the end of "The Hobbit")
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Old 04-13-2005, 06:27 AM   #3
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Thumbs up Quite so.

Excellent find. Your turn.
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Old 04-15-2005, 03:39 AM   #4
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Thank you, Nil!
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Und du ........., wirst all die heimlichen Gedanken deines Geistes entdecken, und wirst erkennen, dass sie nur ein Teil des Ganzen sind und zu seinem Ruhm beitragen.
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Old 04-15-2005, 06:10 AM   #5
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it took me a lot of effort to get this one, thanks, Guinevere

First to render it to

Quote:
And you ... you will find out the secret thoughts of your soul, and will know that only part of the whole exists and is its fame
and eventually learn that in fact, it was meant to be

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And thou, Melkor, wilt discover all the secret thoughts of thy mind, and wilt perceive that they are but a part of the whole and tributary to its glory
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Old 04-15-2005, 03:13 PM   #6
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Thumbs up That's it!

And I thought it might be too easy!
But in fact, the original is much easier to recognize, because of the "thou" and "thy".

(In a German Tolkien Forum where I also am a member, we a have thread "Zitateraten" as well. But the quotes are much harder to recognize, because when translated, the typical styles of the different races and characters are hardly recognizable anymore. Besides, there are 2 different translations which often cause confusion!)
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Old 04-25-2005, 11:31 AM   #7
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I nurtured the great plan of providing you with something terribly hard in some obscure language, but, circumstances being what they are, settled for Russian again

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Da, ti videl ego na mgnovenie takim, kakov on na drugoi storone - odin iz moguchikh iz Pervorojdennikh
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