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Mariska Greenleaf 02-05-2004 09:06 AM

Yes, there is a beautiful one at the end of that paragraph... which I'm not going to use now... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

This next one is just a part of a sentence, but it sounds so beautiful. I hope you agree...

Quote:

...dropping vain tears in the thankless sea.

Guinevere 02-06-2004 02:32 PM

That is in Fëanor's rousing speech to the Noldor,isn't it?

Mariska Greenleaf 02-10-2004 06:30 AM

Ja, that was it.
;)

Guinevere 02-11-2004 08:01 AM

Thanks, Mariska! (btw: nice new avatar you've got! ;) I had a heck of a time to reinstall my old one!:mad:)
Quote:

"Yet in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom"

Sleepy Ranger 02-11-2004 11:20 AM

Um, can I play? Hama to Gandalf? When Aragorn says you will not part an old man from his support thing.

Guinevere 02-11-2004 01:43 PM

You're very welcome, Sleepy, and your answer is correct! :)
Your turn!

Sleepy Ranger 02-11-2004 01:53 PM

Quote:

Use all the wits and knowledge you have for your own
Ok its easy

Guinevere 02-11-2004 02:05 PM

Frodo to Sam, about how to use the contents of Galadriels box in the ravaged Shire.

Sleepy Ranger 02-12-2004 01:52 AM

yep, good going thats it.

Guinevere 02-12-2004 07:25 AM

Thank you! :)
Quote:

"In the armour of Fate there is ever a rift."

Evisse the Blue 02-13-2004 08:17 AM

Ulmo to Tuor.
Quote:

In the armour of Fate (as the children of Earth name it) there is ever a rift and in Doom a breach, until the full-making which ye call the End.
Beautiful one, that.

Guinevere 02-13-2004 10:44 AM

Yes, well done Evisse!

Evisse the Blue 02-14-2004 05:49 AM

"Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart".

Guinevere 02-22-2004 10:17 AM

Melian to Túrin, if I remember rightly... :)

Evisse the Blue 02-22-2004 10:24 AM

You do remember rightly. :)

Guinevere 02-24-2004 03:47 PM

Thank you!
Quote:

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

Sleepy Ranger 02-24-2004 03:51 PM

Gildor to Frodo

Guinevere 02-24-2004 04:16 PM

Right! That was a fast answer, Sleepy ;) so you're apparently not so sleepy at all...

Sleepy Ranger 03-02-2004 02:56 AM

Next question.

Quote:

And I daresay theres more truth in some of them than you reckon.

Mariska Greenleaf 03-03-2004 03:16 AM

Sam to Ted Sandyman about fireside tales and children's stories.

Sleepy Ranger 03-03-2004 02:24 PM

Thats it

Mariska Greenleaf 03-09-2004 09:58 AM

Easy one:

Quote:

Where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls.

Lostgaeriel 03-09-2004 10:53 AM

That's Aragorn replying to Boromir's adage 'the wolf one hears is worse than the orc that one fears'. A Journey in the Dark - about 4 pages into that chapter.

Mariska Greenleaf 03-10-2004 02:47 AM

That's the one, well done!

Lostgaeriel 03-10-2004 10:42 AM

Here's a cliché:

Quote:

Mind your Ps and Qs
Who said that to whom, when, where and why?

Evisse the Blue 03-11-2004 03:01 AM

I think that's Frodo advising his companions to behave sensibly when they arrive at the Prancing Pony. Chapter Fog on the Barrow Downs.
Am I right?

Lostgaeriel 03-11-2004 12:51 PM

Alas, Evisse the Blue, that's not correct. It's a different speaker and a different chapter. But you're in the neighbourhood. Feel free to open the book and look for the quote. That is the point of these games - to get to know the book better - to have an "excuse" to read parts of it again.

Sleepy Ranger 03-11-2004 01:06 PM

I think I've got it.
Merry to The other (3)Hobbits.
In the Chapter-At the Sign of the Prancing Pony.
The part where Merry says it'lll get to stuffy and he may go out for a sniff of air later.

Lostgaeriel 03-12-2004 12:38 AM

Yes, Sleepy Ranger, you have it!

Quote:

'I shall sit here quietly by the fire for a bit, and perhaps go out later for a sniff of the air. Mind your Ps and Qs, and don't forget that you are supposted to be escaping in secret, and are still on the high-road and not very far from the Shire!'
Merry is so sensible. (Well, except when he tried to follow the Black Rider a little while later.)

Your turn.

Sleepy Ranger 03-12-2004 04:04 AM

Quote:

Walk warily
400th post...........

rutslegolas 03-12-2004 07:44 AM

aragorn to pippin in moria??/

Sleepy Ranger 03-12-2004 11:25 AM

No.

Guinevere 03-14-2004 11:22 AM

That's a very short quote, Sleepy! :eek:
Could you at least give a hint from which book it is? (I'd guess from the Silm or UT...)

Sleepy Ranger 03-14-2004 11:33 AM

Its not from the Silm and I don't have the UT:rolleyes:
Its not from the Hobbit either, nor from one of the HoME. ;)

Thats your hint.................:p

Mariska Greenleaf 03-17-2004 06:58 AM

Merry to Legolas;

Sleepy Ranger 03-17-2004 11:43 AM

Yes thats it.

Guinevere 03-17-2004 02:00 PM

A question
 
But where was that, if I may ask ?

Mariska Greenleaf 03-18-2004 05:25 AM

Guinevere, I found it in Two Towers, in the chapter: The voice of Saruman.

Ok, new one:

Quote:

They spoke much in their dreaming, before they sank into the deadly darkness.

Guinevere 03-22-2004 01:08 PM

That would be Gandalf in the Houses of Healing, about Merry and Eowyn. To whom? Um, Aragorn, Eomer, Pippin...

Mariska Greenleaf 03-22-2004 01:39 PM

Good work!
Proceed please.


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