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HerenIstarion · 07-12-2004, 11:39 AM

To set matters right, here is the correct quotation:

Quote:

Fly away little birds! Fly away if you can! Come down little birds, or you will get roasted in your nests!

And the next one runs as follows:

Quote:

Let us come in! She will lull us to sleep even in the middle of the day

Estelyn Telcontar · 07-18-2004, 10:36 AM

I have no idea where to find a quote that sounds like it could be right - can you give a clue, please? I've 'translated' the first part thus: "Make them go out! He won't wake them..." Is that close?

HerenIstarion · 07-20-2004, 12:14 AM

One person was proposing to another to take his turn on duty in his stead. There was more than mere altruism behind the proposal

HerenIstarion · 08-08-2004, 01:49 PM

well, well, there was a deadly foe [unexpectedly] dead in battle not long before the conversation took place, but matters were not resolved as it was expected, so more 'foes' (commas intended) came around.

Estelyn Telcontar · 08-08-2004, 02:05 PM

HI, I'm trying to figure this one out, but I've paged through passage after passage without finding it. Can you give a clue as to which of the 6 LotR books it's in? That would narrow the search down!

HerenIstarion · 08-08-2004, 02:18 PM

Dwarf and 'human' (commas intended again). In the book I quote the most

ah, and 'human' does not mean that he were, say, a wizard. Rather, one who would not need to stoop to shake hands with a dwarf, rather the opposite, dwarf would.

Ok, ok, no I almost said it, I can as well go and say that conversation took place between:

Hobbit and dwarf

Estelyn Telcontar · 08-08-2004, 02:35 PM

Thanks! Looking in the right book is very helpful indeed! Bilbo is speaking to Bombur:

Quote:

Off you go! I will wake you at midnight

07-18-2004, 10:36 AM	#2
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	I have no idea where to find a quote that sounds like it could be right - can you give a clue, please? I've 'translated' the first part thus: "Make them go out! He won't wake them..." Is that close? __________________ '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...'

07-20-2004, 12:14 AM	#3
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	clues One person was proposing to another to take his turn on duty in his stead. There was more than mere altruism behind the proposal __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

08-08-2004, 01:49 PM	#4
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Guess it out quick or else I myself may forget the original... well, well, there was a deadly foe [unexpectedly] dead in battle not long before the conversation took place, but matters were not resolved as it was expected, so more 'foes' (commas intended) came around. __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

08-08-2004, 02:05 PM	#5
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	HI, I'm trying to figure this one out, but I've paged through passage after passage without finding it. Can you give a clue as to which of the 6 LotR books it's in? That would narrow the search down! __________________ '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...'

08-08-2004, 02:18 PM	#6
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	LoTR? Whos said it was LoTR? Ah, wrong book altogether... Dwarf and 'human' (commas intended again). In the book I quote the most ah, and 'human' does not mean that he were, say, a wizard. Rather, one who would not need to stoop to shake hands with a dwarf, rather the opposite, dwarf would. Ok, ok, no I almost said it, I can as well go and say that conversation took place between: Hobbit and dwarf __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!