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I'd love to, but I have no idea about the quote you tease us with
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Princess of Skwerlz
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Both the speaker and the one he speaks of are more than they appear to be... (to be found in FotR)
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...' |
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Well, with 'more than they seem' in mind, can it be Gandalf about Bombadil?:
Quote:
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Forget the preceding one
Ai, ai, silly me, trying to adjust obviously irrelevant quote to reversed one. Pray be so kind to forget the previous, since I have found the correct one:
Quote:
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Princess of Skwerlz
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*applause*
Well-done, HI! You're next.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...' |
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A bit of a show-off, I am...
Thank you, thank you
*H-I bows and beams around, fingering his bow tie nervously... We-e-ell, the following reverse quote would, supposedly, be easy to crack, but I enjoyed reversing it immensely, so have a try ![]() ********************************************* Huge Swineherd Him Ugly was he As the orckish prose reveals With bone in a nose Still bendy as hose Of a wood and a nail to kill Is his club hand-made And his shield all laid With spikes about its brim. Foul his hide all dark Stained with bloody mark Of one Eye so cruel and grim All round his loin Skulls and ribs be going Of unhappy elves he slew He crawled by night Outrun by fright In seek of live flesh to hew And he slipped by day As a spot dim grey Over the darkling lake Oh, his boots all strong Withered earth oft prong Like enourmous cruel rake When he arched his back Thirsted for slash and hack With his cruel and ruddy fang Foul helm of brass All stained and crass O'er hairy shoulder was hung When the pin-sharp claws Of his clutching paws Through the sinew and bone he tore He gazed all down As o'er the mobbed town Through pale and shining door All square he sat Into roomy vat Empty he thought it but, A swineherd Ai With winked eye… They ended right butt to butt! Ai was as grim, As Him and as prim But Ai was, easy to cry Flutterin' like bat Upside in the vat Up to the domed sky! His dirty ears Pointed like spears Rubbed to ears of Him Irksome a thing With a loud ding Vat drowned in lake so dim! Not only the butts Of both those mutts But ears and noses and eyes Were alloyed In pairs were toyed Both buzzed like cruel flies! Everyone said Be them live or dead That their seat may be found at ease By the smelly stench Of the last year's tench And the oily lamp of grease! But still they sit In a vat so neat One great lump o'meat Still buzzing like before! In great lump o'meat In a vat so neat There still they sit Behind the locked door! ********************************************* PS I even mused as of possibility of exploiting the idea for the contest of sorts: say, to reverse verses, retaining the style and spirit, but having the reverse meaning, what d'ya think? ![]()
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Wonderful turn-around, HI!! What a lot of work you put into this one! I won't quote the whole poem, but it is 'Princess Mee', from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, of course. (I hesitate to answer, since I don't think I can top that reversal... )
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