right you are :) ahead

Hurrah! :) Okay, here goes:

Good Luck!

"A man may do both", answered Aragorn. "For not we but those who come after us will make the legends of our time. The green grass, you say. That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it in the light of day".
Aragorn to Eomer, in Riders of Rohan. (It may not be entirely accurate because I don't have the book with me but it's one of my favourite quotes so I expect I got most of it right)

Correct
 

That's the one! :)

"It they won't reject out of forgetfulness for your enemy', she laughed. 'And not of our holiday, they accept us partly. I stay here, not because my unofficial message has begun but life was far from me."

That is Gandalf to Mouth of Sauron

Well done, HerenIstarion!

hum, thanks, :)

the next one than:

A hint, pretty please?:)

manyfrightened persons talking at once

another hint, please:)

many frightened bearded persons talking at once ;)

HI, that clue ("many frightened bearded persons") sent me off to search 'The Hobbit' for a quote, though I haven't found anything like it yet. Am I on the right track? I'm mostly guessing, since I'm not sure what the actual quote is. Would the opposite of tea leaves be coffee beans?

Feeling rather clueless, Esty

I, too, have been looking for this for a loooooong time! I was wondering if tea leaves might be tobacco leaves???:)

I think I found it.

Balin said to Bilbo:
"A little beer would suit me better, if it is all the same to you, my good sir."
But I don't understand the frightened people part...

sorry about the 'frigtened' and 'many', the hint applies to "another way round" thread really, the two got mixed up
a bit for me.

Yes, luthien-elvenprincess, that was Balin, pray proceed :)

hard to crack, that...

... hm, could it be Legolas passing through Huorns?

No, but you are right in figuring out that 'ears' mean eyes.:)

I think I've got it this time :)

Yes, Heren :) You are correct.

thanks

I've been trying to solve this quote but am absolutely clueless so far. It doesn't even sound familiar when I try to figure out the antithesis of the words. Could you give a bit of help, please?

avec plaisire, madame :)

a bit ugly=very pretty (word to word)

Conversation took place one fine morning, too...

Thanks, HI - the "fine morning" got me on the right track. It's in the first chapter of The Hobbit: I must confess, I always enjoy Bilbo's description of adventures:

Correct :)

Here's a new one:

It is the first poetic piece to be 'backwarded' to the best of my knowledge. Well done, my lady :)

I like the verso so much, I'm inclined to give it here in full :):

Why thank you, kind wizard! You're quite right, of course - in fact, those lines show up twice, at the beginning and the end of that poem. Now I look forward to the next one.

Not the first!
 

sorry, couldn't help it. ;)
This was not the first piece of backwarded poetry to grace this thread. Princess Esty came up with the backwarded Ent rhyme recited by Gandalf on page 6. Alright, commercial break over, you can now return to the game. :D

My apologies, Evisse

Let us build up a tradition than :) the following is 'backworded' (or 'anotherwayrounded', if you please) verse as well:

Not to hard to crack, I suppose, but it was much fun to crypt

Hehe! Got one at last ...
 

... so it must be easy. :rolleyes:


Well, it's one of those songs that becomes ingrained, isn't it? :D

it is. right you are, take a shot :)

Phew!
 

And I thought it was difficult to guess an inverted quote. Making them is even harder! :eek:

So this one is probably rather easy. But it made me chuckle, so here goes:

hum, that took a lot of finding out before I finally got it (so it easier to contrive one, than guess one out, whatever you say, my good sir). So, (I hope it is) the Troll of Perry the Winkle:

Spot on!
 

It still probably took you quicker to find it than it took me to find a quote which I could invert and still make sense of! :rolleyes:

You are, of course, correct, Deadnight Chanter. Take it away ... :)

Well, thank you :)

next up:

Hmmmmm, at first I thought it was the passage where Gandalf speaks of Frodo becoming like a glass filled with clear light, but that doesn't fit. A clue, please?

hum, it is a verse, and though it sounds like a horrible curse as it is now, original is quite a lovely description

more hints, than - female instead of male, past tense.