Another mistranslation - Page 4 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

HerenIstarion · 02-22-2002, 08:27 AM

uh huh [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Mat_Heathertoes · 02-22-2002, 09:30 AM

Here's a chestnut ...

Quote:

'Very skilfully and additionally a number of ....'

Said by who to whom and where ?

HerenIstarion · 02-23-2002, 02:11 AM

I'll utter a guess - it was said by ordinary goblin to Great Goblin in the Goblin cave under the Misty mountains

Quote:

Several of our people were struck by lightning in the cave

skilfully refers to Gandalfs fireworkcraft?

Mat_Heathertoes · 02-23-2002, 04:19 PM

Alas nope .. but I'll at least narrow the field by saying it was spoken in ROTK.

HerenIstarion · 02-25-2002, 05:08 AM

well, Denethor to Faramir about previous conversation, where Gandalf took part as well. additional number than must referr to Faramir's glances at Mithrandir checking how much it was allowed to say to Denethor:

Quote:

See, you have spoken skilfully, as ever; but I, have I not seen your eye fixed on Mithrandir, seeking whether you said well or too much? He has long had your heart in his keeping

Mat_Heathertoes · 02-25-2002, 07:21 AM

Alas no..

HerenIstarion · 02-26-2002, 07:30 AM

*hums under his nose "neeveeer give it up, neeeever eveeer give it up, geeeeve it up!"

may it be Aragorn about ruined gate of Minas-Tirith:
[quote]In Erebor in the Kingdom of Dain there is such skill,and if all our hopes do not perish, then in time I will send Gimli Gloin’s son to ask for wrights of the Mountain.[quote]

Mat_Heathertoes · 02-27-2002, 06:50 AM

Like Macc above, I shall expand the quote slightly to help you all ..

Quote:

'Very skilfully, and additionally a number of. You create my guffaw ....

Joy · 02-27-2002, 11:32 PM

Is it Treebeard to Gandalf?

Quote:

Well, come now. You have proved mightiest, and all your labors have gone well.

HerenIstarion · 02-28-2002, 01:02 AM

I'm at a loss. what this idiom "create one's guffaw" may mean? make one laugh?

HerenIstarion · 02-28-2002, 01:52 AM

ye he he, and tha bottle of rom! [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

it means make one laugh after all
that's Saruman to Frodo in the Shire:

Quote:

Quite capable,and more than a little. You made me laugh, you hobbit-lordlings, riding along with all those great people so secure and so pleased with your little selves

Mat_Heathertoes · 02-28-2002, 08:27 AM

Yay! ... Sterling work sir!

[img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

You can torment us all now with one of your own

[img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion · 02-28-2002, 11:45 AM

as was said above, I'm really very pleased with my little self, so I won't torment you [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. perfectly easy, go ahead and crack it:

Quote:

So, what happened? Is it so urgent you have to bother me? By Jove, no rest by day or night!

Mat_Heathertoes · 02-28-2002, 07:20 PM

Is it that Curumo again to his visitors at Orthanc?

Quote:

'Well?' it said now with gentle question, 'Why must you disturb my rest? Will you give me no peace at all by night or day?'

02-28-2002, 09:50 PM

could it be Smaug from the Red Book of Westmarch?

02-28-2002, 09:51 PM

oops forgot to say when. When Bilbo went down inside the Lonely Mountain.

HerenIstarion · 03-01-2002, 02:46 AM

Mat_Heathertoes gets it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Mat_Heathertoes · 03-01-2002, 05:16 PM

Ridiculously easy despite the butchering by freetranslation.com

Quote:

There ourselves are position to the bed to sleep of the habit downward.

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-01-2002, 06:17 PM

Quote:

We usually lie down to sleep

Merry to Treebeard, when asked where the hobbits would stand to sleep.

Mat_Heathertoes · 03-02-2002, 06:04 AM

Correct as usual Macc [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-02-2002, 06:28 AM

Quote:

Where it is our service search of the information, and where they were all the day you?

HerenIstarion · 03-05-2002, 04:07 AM

Gangalf to pippin?

Quote:

'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-05-2002, 04:26 AM

Nope!

HerenIstarion · 03-05-2002, 04:54 AM

well, hm, than maybe that's two orks in the Morgai talking between themselves?

Quote:

Then what have you seen with them? Garn! You don’t even know what you’re looking for.

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-05-2002, 04:00 PM

Once again, no!

Joy · 03-05-2002, 11:32 PM

Quote:

Where it is our service search of the information, and where they were all the day you?

Bruce, is it

Quote:

But where have you been to - sneaking off and sneaking back, you old villian?

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-06-2002, 12:04 AM

Heh - this is more fun than I thought it would be! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
Wrong!!!! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion · 03-06-2002, 12:52 AM

well, well...
Dwalin to Bifur?

Quote:

and our beards will grow till they hang down the cliff to the valley before anything happens here. What is our burglar doing for us?

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-06-2002, 01:42 AM

No, but getting closer. Not actually close, mind you, but closer none the less. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-06-2002, 02:32 AM

To make Sharkû happy:
English-German-English [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion · 03-06-2002, 03:49 AM

uh huh
Thorin to Bilbo:

Quote:

Before we go, I suppose you mean.Aren't you the burglar? And isn't sitting on the door-step your job, not to speak of getting inside the door?

?
[img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-06-2002, 06:16 AM

Nope! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

HerenIstarion · 03-06-2002, 08:56 AM

shooting at the blue sky...

dwarves to Gandalf at Beon's:

Quote:

Where is our host, and where have you been all day yourself?

[ March 07, 2002: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ]

HerenIstarion · 03-14-2002, 04:36 AM

Bruce?

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-14-2002, 08:33 AM

Getting even closer! (Keep working your way East. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] )

Joy · 03-15-2002, 01:31 AM

I'm not sure which way is East in a book, but I will give this one a try again.

Barrels Out of Bonds

Quote:

I am sure we are all for ever at your service, whatever happens after this. But what comes next?

HerenIstarion · 03-15-2002, 03:56 AM

I'd rather ascribe it to Thorin at the Lonely Mountain:

Quote:

now is the time for him to perform the service for which he was included in our Company; now is the time for him to earn his Reward

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-15-2002, 06:47 AM

I just realized I made a mistake! I mixed this thread up with another one! H-I was right with

Quote:

Where is our host, and where have you been all day yourself?

[img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Sorry H-I!

HerenIstarion · 03-15-2002, 08:44 AM

I khew it! I knew it! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] arghh!

ok, you are forgiven [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

next one:

Quote:

And there Kate stood once upon a time, at the eleventh door at the end of the road from Hollywood

it's more like a mishearing, than mistranslation, though [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Joy · 03-16-2002, 10:52 AM

H-I, is it

Quote:

On the green stood alone bank near to the very point of the Tongue the Lady Galadriel stood alone and silent.

02-22-2002, 08:27 AM	#121
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	uh huh [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

02-23-2002, 04:19 PM	#124
Mat_Heathertoes Wight Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: A Broom cupboard in Utumno Posts: 185	Alas nope .. but I'll at least narrow the field by saying it was spoken in ROTK. __________________ Give me fish now, and keep nassty chips!

02-25-2002, 07:21 AM	#126
Mat_Heathertoes Wight Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: A Broom cupboard in Utumno Posts: 185	Alas no.. __________________ Give me fish now, and keep nassty chips!

02-26-2002, 07:30 AM	#127
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	*hums under his nose "neeveeer give it up, neeeever eveeer give it up, geeeeve it up!" may it be Aragorn about ruined gate of Minas-Tirith: [quote]In Erebor in the Kingdom of Dain there is such skill,and if all our hopes do not perish, then in time I will send Gimli Gloin’s son to ask for wrights of the Mountain.[quote] __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

02-28-2002, 01:02 AM	#130
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	I'm at a loss. what this idiom "create one's guffaw" may mean? make one laugh? __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

02-28-2002, 08:27 AM	#132
Mat_Heathertoes Wight Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: A Broom cupboard in Utumno Posts: 185	Yay! ... Sterling work sir! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] You can torment us all now with one of your own [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] __________________ Give me fish now, and keep nassty chips!

02-28-2002, 09:50 PM	#135
Amaryllis Guest Posts: n/a	could it be Smaug from the Red Book of Westmarch?

02-28-2002, 09:51 PM	#136
Amaryllis Guest Posts: n/a	oops forgot to say when. When Bilbo went down inside the Lonely Mountain.

03-01-2002, 02:46 AM	#137
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Mat_Heathertoes gets it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

03-02-2002, 06:04 AM	#140
Mat_Heathertoes Wight Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: A Broom cupboard in Utumno Posts: 185	Correct as usual Macc [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ Give me fish now, and keep nassty chips!

03-05-2002, 04:26 AM	#143
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	Nope! __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'

03-05-2002, 04:00 PM	#145
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	Once again, no! __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'

03-06-2002, 12:04 AM	#147
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	Heh - this is more fun than I thought it would be! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Wrong!!!! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'

03-06-2002, 01:42 AM	#149
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	No, but getting closer. Not actually close, mind you, but closer none the less. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'

03-06-2002, 02:32 AM	#150
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	To make Sharkû happy: English-German-English [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'

03-06-2002, 06:16 AM	#152
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	Nope! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'

03-14-2002, 04:36 AM	#154
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Bruce? __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

03-14-2002, 08:33 AM	#155
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	Getting even closer! (Keep working your way East. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] ) __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'