Quotes in other languages

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Ah, of course. I have to (once again, when it comes to Spanish) give thanks to my brother, who alerted me of the word "espejo". At the moment I learned what "espejo" is (and from my own knowledge of languages guessed what "peligroso" is), it was easy to find where this is from.

Originally Posted by Mirror of Galadriel

Some never come to be, unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them. The Mirror is dangerous as a guide of deeds.

[Thinlómien]

Take the thread, please.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Someone mentioned Koine Greek?

Dakryous myriona ymeis ekcheeite; kai _____ peribalousin _______ kata ymas, kai ekbalousin ymas exo, ina mete echo tou odyrmou ymon metabesetai dia ton oron.

I must say I enjoyed making this one, not saying that it is perfectly correct; but when I finished it, the professional deformation worked on me: I immediately wanted to make a textual analysis to find whether it was some purpose to use the derivations of the word "balo" so often. And I'm mentioning this so that I can tell you in English, peribalousin and ekbalousin hardly have anything in common, so don't let yourselves confused by the similarity.

A suggestion: for non-Greek speakers, you can try to discern in some words the prefixes you know, as they are even in English or in internationally known words.

[Gwathagor]

I don't suppose we can get it in actual Greek letters, can we?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Well it's the rule to post it transliterated to latin script. I believe it will not give you much advantage if I transliterated it back for you (it will be without all the accents still, but anyway), it will take a little time from me; I'm only afraid if others will not take it that you have some sort of advantage. Anyway, the script above is (almost, only you don't have the difference between o/o mega or e/eta) more or less letter-to-letter transliteration, so if you know the Greek, you can transliterate it for yourself...

EDIT: Okay, here is it in original, for comparison; so that if anyone is seriously linguistically interested he can check. I had to write it in standard Windows fonts (hope it shows to everyone), so I didn't know how to make the accents in there, but you can guess if you are familiar with the language. It is almost the same as in the text above, you can check in the two variants (even you who don't know the Greek script, if it will do you any good). η is long "e", ς is "s" at the end of a word, ω is long "o", χ is "ch"; and when standing alone, I transliterated υ as "y" (as that's how it's read) and when in double consonant ου, I transliterated it as "ou".

Δακρυους μυριονα υμεις εκχεειτε; και _____ περιβαλουσιν _______ κατα υμας, και εκβαλουσιν υμας εξω, ινα μητε εχω του οδυρμου υμων μεταβησεται δια των ορων.

Good night and happy riddling. I want you to provide the quotation and where it comes from...

[Gwathagor]

Hurrah! Thanks.

[Aganzir]

Since Uncle Gwathy hasn't provided us with a guess yet, I look forward to see Uncle Leggy provide us with a hint.

[Guinevere]

I guess it must be this:

Dakryous myriona ymeis ekcheeite; kai _____ peribalousin _______ kata ymas, kai ekbalousin ymas exo, ina mete echo tou odyrmou ymon metabesetai dia ton oron.

"Tears unnumbered ye shall shed; and the Valar will fence Valinor against you, and shut you out, so that not even the echo of your lamentation shall pass over the mountains"

(Since I work in a medical profession I recognized "Dacryo" as refering to tears )

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Goood, good! Very good! Yes, that's what I thought - someone may know some words from elsewhere Well done, Guinevere, your turn!

[Guinevere]

Thank you, Legate! Btw, this was interesting, I didn't know what "Koine Greek" was, and so I looked it up . It's amazing how many languages you know!!
Unfortunately I am not able to bring something so exotic, and am lazy to boot, so it'll be plain German today. (If too easy, I'll bring up Swissgerman again next time )

"Nun, wenn du daran Freude hast," sagte ______, "so tust du mir leid. Es wird nur eine Freude in der Erinnerung sein."

[Aganzir]

Is the book Lotr or some other? I just can't remember where something like that was.