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Estelyn Telcontar 10-07-2002 08:41 AM
Well, thank you - I will continue with this one:
Quote:
A beggar can't be chooser, or else I'd bid you go.

HerenIstarion 10-08-2002 02:10 AM
thats Tom Bombadil a-boating :)

Quote:
Well, well. Muddy-feet! From one that's late for meeting
away back by the Mithe that's a surly greeting!
You old farmer fat that cannot walk for wheezing,
cart-drawn like a sack, ought to be more pleasing.
Penny-wise tub-on-legs! A beggar can't be chooser,
or else I'd bid you go, and you would be the loser.
Come, Maggot! Help me up! A tankard now you owe me.
Even in cockshut light an old friend should know me

Estelyn Telcontar 10-08-2002 02:30 AM
Right you are, HI - I thought I had obscured the verse structure well enough to make you work longer on that one! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] You're next - again!

HerenIstarion 10-08-2002 10:59 PM
Quote:
But I'm not a builder

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-09-2002 03:42 AM
Niggle?

HerenIstarion 10-11-2002 05:17 AM
yes, proceed :)

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-11-2002 02:01 PM
Quote:
No news is bad news

Estelyn Telcontar 10-11-2002 02:37 PM
It's the blacksmith in 'Farmer Giles'.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-11-2002 02:40 PM
That's the fellow.

Estelyn Telcontar 10-11-2002 03:38 PM
This one's really easy, but I like it so much that I'm using it anyway:
Quote:
No doubt some who deserved to be asked were overlooked, and some who did not were invited by mistake; for that is the way of things, however careful those who arrange such matters may try to be.
Doesn't that sound a bit like Gandalf's 'Many that live deserve death' speech?

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-11-2002 05:23 PM
That description of the Feast of Good Children from Smith of Wootton Major certainly looks very Gandalf-esque. Perhaps he's the narrator. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Estelyn Telcontar 10-11-2002 11:19 PM
You're right, Squatter, and it just now occurs to me that it wasn't a proper quote! Oh well, your turn.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-13-2002 01:38 PM
Not to worry; it's a nice parallel all the same. Okey dokey:

Quote:
I cannot see clearly. You must put it in for me.
[ October 13, 2002: Message edited by: Squatter of Amon Rudh ]

Estelyn Telcontar 10-13-2002 01:52 PM
Oh, nice one - such a touching moment! It's Smith, speaking to Alf when he relinquishes the star.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-14-2002 05:53 AM
I thought you might like it. Esty escapes the Gorge of Eternal Peril to post another quotation.

Estelyn Telcontar 10-14-2002 09:08 AM
All right, try this one:
Quote:
You're better outside than in!

HerenIstarion 10-15-2002 03:03 AM
Perry-the-Winkle to Lonely Troll:

Quote:
O why do you weep, you great big lump?
You're better outside than in!
He gave the Troll a friendly thump,
and laughed to see him grin.

Estelyn Telcontar 10-15-2002 03:21 AM
That's it, HI - you're next!

HerenIstarion 10-16-2002 01:48 AM
Quote:
He will get home a long time before you do, I expect

Legolas 10-17-2002 02:03 PM
Chrysophylax to Farmer Giles

"He" = Farmer Giles' dog

HerenIstarion 10-18-2002 12:28 AM
exactly. you serve

Legolas 10-21-2002 10:29 AM
Quote:
Yet trees are not 'trees', until so named and seen

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-21-2002 12:55 PM
Philomythus to Misomythus in Mythopoeia unless I'm much mistaken.

Legolas 10-21-2002 01:18 PM
You're not mistaken.

Go on.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-21-2002 01:21 PM
Quote:
Dirige, Domine, in conspectu tuo viam meam.

Estelyn Telcontar 10-21-2002 02:00 PM
Tídwald says it in the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-21-2002 02:03 PM
Does Tídwald strike you as being that educated?

You're close though.

Estelyn Telcontar 10-21-2002 02:07 PM
Well, it's in the section with his name over it, but I assume it's the monks of Ely who actually do the chanting.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-21-2002 02:11 PM
Your wild guesswork has met with success. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Actually the clue is in the following words from the voice in the dark:
Quote:
Sadly they sing, the monks of Ely isle!

Estelyn Telcontar 10-21-2002 03:46 PM
Quote:
It is your task, of course, to put the best interpretation on the facts.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-21-2002 04:00 PM
"Sometimes they will bear it"

That's the First Voice to the Second Voice on the eponymous hero in Leaf by Niggle

Estelyn Telcontar 10-21-2002 11:23 PM
Can't I keep you looking for longer than a few minutes, Squatter? You're right, of course! Go ahead with a new one.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-22-2002 12:24 PM
Quote:
I will not walk with your progressive apes

Estelyn Telcontar 10-22-2002 01:09 PM
Philomythus to Misomythus in Mythopoeia

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-22-2002 01:12 PM
Spot on. Have a banana.

Estelyn Telcontar 10-22-2002 01:45 PM
*Esty munches the banana and swallows before speaking...
Quote:
What's your business here?

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-22-2002 02:12 PM
Quote:
Ho there! beggarman tramping in the Marish!
What's your business here? Hat all stuck with arrows!
That would be Farmer Maggot, failing to recognise Tom in Bombadil Goes Boating

Estelyn Telcontar 10-22-2002 02:55 PM
You are so right - carry on!

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 10-22-2002 03:03 PM
Quote:
It is later than late! Why do we wait?

Estelyn Telcontar 10-22-2002 03:16 PM
The quote is found in 'The Sea-Bell', "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil". As close as I can figure it out, it's the boat speaking, either that or the sea shell which is telling the story.


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