:) "It is proving very useful indeed," said the Second Voice "As a holyday and a refreshment."
to the First Voice, about Niggle's Parish.

That's right, Guinevere! Now you can puzzle us with a new one...

Thank you!
... I have so much work to do in real life :p

'Twould be a shame if you weren't, Guinevere! Parish is the speaker, Niggle the one he thanks, both having learned to appreciate each other in the afterlife. (Leaf by Niggle)

Indeed.
 

Your turn again.
(btw, have you looked at the "Quotes in other languages thread" lately? nobody seems to want to solve my German quote! :( )

Here are words that could apply to our Barrow: (Guinevere, I recognize that quote on the other thread, though I'd have to search for the exact location. But what do I do then? German and English are my only languages, so I couldn't contribute anything different...)

More complaining, Torhthelm?
 

For 'tis he, to the long-suffering Tídwald in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son:

You got it, Squatter! Proceed at will.

At last: the meaning of life...
 

Whence came this insight?

I found it! It's in Mythopoeia, which is spoken by Philomythus to Misomythus. He tells of creation:

That's the fellow.

Here's a quote that might apply to other threads, but of course never to this one! ;)

That sounds autothalassic enough to be the Great Sea Serpent, complaining about Artaxerxes' failed attempts to control his movements. Of course, the Mer-people demand exactly the same thing of their king en masse, but I don't think that they do it in block capitals. In either case, Roverandom is the work in question.

That'd be merfolk, as they urged Mr Arterxaxes, I mean Ertaxarxes, oh, whatever (that is not Rover only to have problems with spelling of his name, you see ;)) to come out and 'do something' about Sea-Serpent

On the other hand, that may be Sea-Serpent itself, as it tried to make Mr Ataxerxexexs stop doing abovementioned 'something', that is, mighty spell of his, causing insomnia in Serpent

edit: Cross-poster here, Squatter :). You have 7 minutes in your favour, so take it away as Esty confirms it (that is, I do believe it is pretty safe bet we've got correct answers)

BTW, what does 'autothalassic' stand for?

Bad luck
 

Too slow, Heren. You have to type quicker than that to beat me. :D

Indeed, it was the Sea-Serpent who shouted it - all caps would have been bad etiquette on the internet... Take it away, Squatter!

curiosity killed (or was it called?) the cat...
 

er, do my eyes deceive me, or did you merge two 'minor' threads back to one? Only it was some 4 or 5 pages long, and now it is 15...

Curiosity satisfied
 

Yup

A possible addendum to Saucepan's post
 

I feel that the following quotation is appropriate here.

Well, I was certainly surprised about the sudden increase of the number of pages, too!

But the quote is Chrysophylax speaking to Giles:
"Good morning!" said the dragon. "You seem surprised."
"Good morning!" said Giles. "I am that."
A very polite dragon! ;)

The ancient and imperial worm
 

The very fellow, Guinevere. Of course, Chrysophylax is the true hero of that story.

thank you, dear Squatter! :)
( ...or at least I was the the first to post ;) )

Another aptly named character
 

Alf, the King of Faerie, to the eponymous hero in Smith of Wootton Major.

Exactly! :)

The night's for posting, but...
 

Perhaps this one's too easy, but I like it.

This one was easy to find, if only because of the fact that I checked your favorite minor work first! ;) A dreary comment by Tídwald to Torhthelm in The Homecoming...:

Captain Predictable strikes again
 

Certainly is.

A bit more optomistic...
 

I hope so!

That was the Master Cook to his apprentice Alf:

Sounds familiar... ;)

That's the person, Mariska! I do hope that the end of the passage doesn't apply to those who are on vacation from this thread!

indeed!


Good luck on the new one.

A quote from a real person!
 

That's Andrew Lang, the Victorian philologist and compiler of variously coloured Fairy Books. Tolkien quotes him in On Fairy-Stories on the subject of mercy and justice in the realm of Faerie.

Needless to say, that you are absolutely right, Mister Squatter!

Time for another...
 

What indeed?

Caudimordax, a nice big sword with a history, lineage and engravings! Chrysophylax asked, and the title hero, Farmer Giles of Ham, answered.

A good sword is hard to come by
 

That's right.

I've been getting complaints lately that Tolkien's characters have great swords practically dropped into their laps, whereas mine have to put up with all sorts of inconvenient eccentricities. Mind you, I'm still writing the plot for the character in question, and I might decide that he'd be more interesting dead.

'Indeed, Master. You have my most humble gratitude for this, the greatest blade yet borne by any hero who is me.'

Sarcastic, but it'll do. Now shut up and smoke your pipe until I need you. And bear in mind that I never wrote Windósil out of the narrative.

'I hate you'

That is a perfect way to start.

What was I saying again?

Well, be it sword, swordsman/woman or whatever, perhaps it could be said of them:

whatever in this case, or a doggy (sea doggy, to be precise). That'd be merdog, under the name of Rover, first of the name, as his first master's sailors said about him:

Yes, you got it completely right! That was a quote within a quote, a bit tricky, I must admit.

Thank you :)

Next one up: