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Legate of Amon Lanc · 03-13-2007, 10:25 AM

Wow, no, it could have been even better! You can try something like it next time

Anyway... hmm... *scratches head*

Bilbo is to Thorin

as

_______ is to Saruman

The Might · 03-13-2007, 10:32 AM

Bilbo betrayed Thorin by stealing the Arkenstone, while Grima betrayed Saruman by stabbing him and by giving information to the Nazgul
So maybe it's Grima

Legate of Amon Lanc · 03-13-2007, 10:35 AM

No, not what I had in mind.

The Might · 03-13-2007, 10:36 AM

ok, maybe Bilbo was a burglar, but also a spy for Thorin and Bill Ferny worked as a spy for Saruman in Bree

Legate of Amon Lanc · 03-13-2007, 10:56 AM

Nope, still not the right one. Bilbo, after all, was not Thorin's servant...

The Might · 03-13-2007, 11:30 AM

Perhaps it's Lotho Sackville-Baggins
Bilbo was Thorin's host at Bag End, and so was Lotho, for a short while at least for Saruman before being killed by Grima

Legate of Amon Lanc · 03-13-2007, 11:49 AM

Interesting, but still not what I had in mind.

More exactly I might say that what represented Bilbo to Thorin, the same represented _______ to Saruman.

03-13-2007, 10:25 AM	#1
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Wow, no, it could have been even better! You can try something like it next time Anyway... hmm... scratches head Bilbo is to Thorin as _______ is to Saruman __________________ "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

03-13-2007, 10:32 AM	#2
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	Bilbo betrayed Thorin by stealing the Arkenstone, while Grima betrayed Saruman by stabbing him and by giving information to the Nazgul So maybe it's Grima __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

03-13-2007, 10:35 AM	#3
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	No, not what I had in mind. __________________ "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

03-13-2007, 10:36 AM	#4
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	ok, maybe Bilbo was a burglar, but also a spy for Thorin and Bill Ferny worked as a spy for Saruman in Bree __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

03-13-2007, 10:56 AM	#5
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Nope, still not the right one. Bilbo, after all, was not Thorin's servant... __________________ "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

03-13-2007, 11:30 AM	#6
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	Perhaps it's Lotho Sackville-Baggins Bilbo was Thorin's host at Bag End, and so was Lotho, for a short while at least for Saruman before being killed by Grima __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

03-13-2007, 11:49 AM	#7
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Interesting, but still not what I had in mind. More exactly I might say that what represented Bilbo to Thorin, the same represented _______ to Saruman. __________________ "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