Nice try, but no cylindrical smoking thing. Attend to the fact that 'this high' bears positive implications, and Sam in Lorine, in fact, should be afraid of sleeping 'this high",

another hint, like it - the speaker is not human

btw, Evisse, is that C.S.Lewis quote in your sig, perchance?

Gwaihir perchance?
 

Might it be the Lord of the Eagles, high in his Eyrie, commenting upon the commotion caused by the Goblins and Wargs who had trapped Gandalf, Bilbo, Thorin and co in the trees just east of the Misty Mountains?

cylindrical smoking thing :), that's indeed Lord of the Eagles. Over to you

Thank you, HI. :)

This one should be fairly easy, I think:

Can it referr to Aragonr's decision to ride the Paths of the Dead? Probably said by Eomer to Eowyn...

No, but Eomer is relevant to the (non-)quote ...

Than counel-giver should be Theoden. hum, gotta think about it a bit more...

Nope, it's Merry the Hobbit. ;)

Is it Gandalf to Theoden about Eomer rejecting Wormtongue's counsels?

That's the one, Evisse. :)

Thank you. :) Next up: (I'll hint if needed):

"I am of like mind. It is their luck and our evil fortune that it is not day. But still it may prove the best such as it is.

Could it possibly be Gandalf to Thorin concerning sheltering in a cave on a High Pass?:

a bit grubby, perhaps, but worth a try?

sorry, that's not it. Shall I hint? I think I will: it's a conersation between two warriors.

May it be Eomer to Aragorn in the Helm;s deep (just before thay come out for a sortie?)

You're right!
 

Yes, that's the one. more precisely after Aragorn says: 'Would that day were here and we may ride down upon them like a storm out of the mountains"

Shamelessly off-topic: Congrats Russia at the World Skating Champs! :)

off topic re: do people congratulate Irish upon Englishman winning a title?

(thanks nevertheless ;))

next up:

(right, sorry, point taken. lol! great comparison there...
 

Is it Frodo and Sam when first seeing Tom Bombadil?

pas de quois, mademoiselle :)
 

Hum, in terms of time and space, it was a lot earlier and a lot to the East :)

gracious as always, HI :)
 

Maybe a bit of a stretch but...It could be the dwarves about Bilbo when he was fussing over his plates and running to and fro from one to the other trying to keep his plates from being broken.

a bit too early
 

Well, Bilbo was not that old than, after all. And you forgot about 'a bit to the east' too. The one to be referred to is called 'fellow' in the actual quote immediately preceeding the non-existent one :)

more hints, than:

1. Naming dwarves and BIlbo you hit quite close
2. Look through final chapters of the Hobbit for it

:)

A-ha!
 

It must be Bilbo to Thorin about that thrush: .

Hmmm, I think I discovered something interesting: you have a tendency to pick a lot of quotes from this particular chapter 15 of The Hobbit. :)

yes, certainly :)

pray proceed

edit: hum? Chater 15, is it? Honestly, it is unconscious... it was not me, I was set up, I ain't done it...

But if it is really the case, than you have additional tool to guess out my questions, eh? :D

i love this game (V)
 

Who did not speak this and when?

A number of people may have had uttered it on number of occasions. Would you narrow it up a bit, please? :)

Ok -
1. the word sadness is mentioned in the previous sentence
2. it's from LOTR

ah, that helps :)

May it be Legolas upon hearing the song of the Rohirrim?

You are correct, sir! :)

on we go, than :)

Tom Bombadil about the barrows?

Nope :)

I'm going to become self-plagiarist with reagard to hints. So the hint runs again as:

If I may venture a guess . . .
It may be Thorin from The Hobbit speaking of the desolation of Smaug as they approached the Lonely Mountain in the chapter "On the Doorstep".

"Green they were and pleasant, and now lie bare and empty, and no merry sound stirs this dreadful silence."

near hit
 

It's not a ten mark, but nine and a half for sure :). Try to narrow it just a bit (Non existent quotes are usually extensions of direct quotes)

Then perhaps it's Balin, from the next page:

"Green they were and pleasant, and now lie bare and empty, and no merry sound stirs this dreadful silence."

Is that what you had in mind?

Exactly :) Over to you

To me then, though this is a little harder than I thought. I will hint as necessary:

I hope that's not too easy, or too hard. It's hard to tell.

May it be Haldir to Frodo about Dol-Guldur? Since Sauron declared himself at Barad-Dur in T.A. 2951, and Frodo was visiting Lorien in T.A. 3019 that may be the case:

Well, I guess that didn't take that long. You're dead on. Back to you.

Well, not that easy, but a bit of scanning through Tale of Years did the trick

Next one up:

I think you're trying to trick us. Could this be from the Council of Elrond? Gandalf quoting Radagast quoting Saruman:

" 'Saruman the White,' answered Radagast. 'And he told me to say that if you feel the need, he will help; but you must seek his aid at once, or it will be too late.' "
"--Bid him hasten, so he may come hither in a short while."