Another Way Round

[HerenIstarion]

Bilbo lost in the goblin tunnels:

Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go

[Estelyn Telcontar]

That was fast, HI! And absolutely correct, of course. Isn't that a great motto for living?!

[HerenIstarion]

Fast and Correct!

*plays with the sentence around his tongue

quite a tart aftertaste, I should say. Such a motto is worth considering, my lady.

next one:

"Are you the owner?" Prosaist asked "You have taken ours and we will remove yours"

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Can we have a hint please?

[HerenIstarion]

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.

[HerenIstarion]

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.

[The Saucepan Man]

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

"Thieves we are not," said Bard. "We will give you your own in return for our own"

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

We are not thieves," Bard answered. "Your own we will give back in return for our own."

[HerenIstarion]

that's the chap. go ahead

[The Saucepan Man]

Thanks HI.

This may take some searching:

"Nay, nay, 'tis possible you may not ask me, slave," she whispered. "You haven't missed our solitary silence outside the Tower of Cirith Ungol. A wilderness of giants: it wasn't there that Saruman went, but has no wish to leave. They wanted to do more then than find a camel."

[HerenIstarion]

Since I can safely bet on my previous answer to be correct, and following LoA's absence, with one week rule in mind, and not wishing for this thread to die out, pray be presented with the next quote:

Butterflies are already dead, though on an island over those pools, for I deduct it out of a fire

keenness of observation will help you more than anything in guessing it out

[Evisse the Blue]

Not to let this fade; I'm useless without my books, but surely others could use a hint.

[HerenIstarion]

As it was said, keennes of observation is the clue. Besides, I would recommend taking a look at the roots...

[HerenIstarion]

look at the first page

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, the original quote was on the first page of this thread, so all I had to do was find out who said it! It was Bilbo, speaking of Smaug when the dwarves and he had reached the Lonely Mountain.

The dragon is still alive and in the halls under the Mountain then - or I imagine so from the smoke

[Galadriel55]

Evise, I am really confused about this quote. It sounds like "Into sorrow [someone] must enter; and into despair." It has a familiar ring to it, but I just can't pinpoint it. Feanor says a line of similar comtext when he urges the Noldor to leave Aman, but it has a totally different structure.

A clue, perhaps?

[HerenIstarion]

Sounds like Aragorn on his deathbed consoling Arwen:

But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Eldar say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.

"So it seems," he said. "But let us not be overthrown at the final test, who of old renounced the Shadow and the Ring. In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory, Farewell!"

[LadyBrooke]

Since it's been a while, I hope nobody minds if I do one:

Earlier they heard me, I nice tall human! They did drink me and took my flesh and blood buried in the ground....they buried me feet upwards in the ground for a month or three.

I'm not sure if that's scarier then the original quote or not....

[Galadriel55]

"Now we see you, you nasty little creature! We will eat you and leave your bones and skin hanging on a tree. Ugh! he's got a sting has he? Well, we'll get him all the same, and then we'll hang him head downwards for a day or two."

~Spiders to Bilbo in Mirkwood

It was scarier before I guessed it.

[LadyBrooke]

Correct! I think the whole drank my blood part was scary....and it was in the past tense, so how's he telling us this.

I must say that I am challenged for now, but I will come back to challenge.

[Galadriel55]

Hmmmm..... I'm stumped too. That does sound a bit like Theoden greeting Gandalf under Grima's instructions, though...