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Legate of Amon Lanc · 12-21-2007, 09:50 AM

Oh yes, then it is:

They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead. (Dead Marshes)

Hmm. The end was familiar. But otherwise, Finnish is too alien to me to analyse.

Mine was: But for long now he has plotted your ruin, wearing the mask of friendship, until he was ready. (Gandalf to Théoden about Saruman) Like I said, not a familiar quote in the slightest, but it was the only one I knew 100% in English AND was able to translate it easily.

12-21-2007, 09:50 AM	#31
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Oh yes, then it is: They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead. (Dead Marshes) Hmm. The end was familiar. But otherwise, Finnish is too alien to me to analyse. Mine was: But for long now he has plotted your ruin, wearing the mask of friendship, until he was ready. (Gandalf to Théoden about Saruman) Like I said, not a familiar quote in the slightest, but it was the only one I knew 100% in English AND was able to translate it easily. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

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