"Minor works" Quotes - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Estelyn Telcontar · 06-01-2004, 06:18 AM

Time to answer this one and get the thread moving again! It's Tídwald, speaking to Torhthelm in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son.

HerenIstarion · 06-01-2004, 07:58 AM

Right you are, your ladyship. Pray proceed

Estelyn Telcontar · 06-01-2004, 08:19 AM

Let's see if this quote is a prophetic statement:

Quote:

You'll never find it out

HerenIstarion · 06-01-2004, 08:26 AM

Ah, I already did

That was Man in the Moon to Rover, concerning children dreaming, that is, they were dreaming, but Rover saw them playing in the precipice on the moon, and he knew not that they traveled there in their sleep

Estelyn Telcontar · 06-01-2004, 08:55 AM

Very close, HI, but not quite - that quote is missing the little word "it". Try elsewhere...

HerenIstarion · 06-01-2004, 09:03 AM

does it? hum-m, ha-ss-sty, that's the word. Another go should require some more scanning, than

HerenIstarion · 06-02-2004, 02:22 AM

It must be it, this time:

Quote:

Inside their secret house, there they sat a-mumbling:
'Ho, Tom Bombadil' Where have you come tumbling,
bursting in the front-door? Badger-folk have caught you.
You'll never find it out, the way that we have brought you!

i.e. Badgers to Tom Bombadil

06-01-2004, 06:18 AM	#1
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Time to answer this one and get the thread moving again! It's Tídwald, speaking to Torhthelm in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son. __________________ '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...'

06-01-2004, 07:58 AM	#2
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Right you are, your ladyship. Pray proceed __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

06-01-2004, 08:26 AM	#4
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	The prophet's bread is hard to earn... Ah, I already did That was Man in the Moon to Rover, concerning children dreaming, that is, they were dreaming, but Rover saw them playing in the precipice on the moon, and he knew not that they traveled there in their sleep __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

06-01-2004, 08:55 AM	#5
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Very close, HI, but not quite - that quote is missing the little word "it". Try elsewhere... __________________ '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...'

06-01-2004, 09:03 AM	#6
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	does it? hum-m, ha-ss-sty, that's the word. Another go should require some more scanning, than __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!