Tolkien Translated... into Googlese

[Urwen]

4."Life, or dark immortal, beat I sign up?"
This one was not so difficult, even without your once again impatient and early clues, Urwen. It's Éowyn to the Witch-King.

How did you guess that?!

[Pitchwife]

Originally Posted by Legate

"I'm a ghost ring cold. The skin is your body, when seen, and all other political parties, cold eyes."

"Those Nazgûl give me the creeps. And they skin the body off you as soon as look at you, and leave you all cold in the dark on the other side." Gorbag to Shagrat, feeding speculations about what's been called 'Nazgûl purgatory'.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Urwen

How did you guess that?!

Answer: Easily

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

"Those Nazgûl give me the creeps. And they skin the body off you as soon as look at you, and leave you all cold in the dark on the other side." Gorbag to Shagrat, feeding speculations about what's been called 'Nazgûl purgatory'.

Indeed! The other quote, for that matter, is from the Hobbit:

"Little bunny is getting nice and fat again on bread and honey," he chuckled. "Come and have some more!"

The interesting thing is that the "come and have some more" eventually became just the question mark. At some point, it was "Too!", later "Too?" and in the end only "?". But I would say "Century, Tags, Obesity Bread of Love "and she Smiled!" is quite awkward change there

[Pitchwife]

Originally Posted by Legate

But I would say "Century, Tags, Obesity Bread of Love "and she Smiled!" is quite awkward change there

Indeed, 'awkward' doesn't begin to describe it!

But what do you make of this:

Prince Castle dwarf baby skin is beautiful! If you know that recreation and fishing in the Mediterranean coast of Sutherland.

25 translations. Eönwë's forbidden to guess.

[Loslote]

I don't think it's been done yet, so, at 25 translations:

"Door, but now Bixu Xiang this line because it was more than a foot in the schools, roads and community needs. Well, as I do not know."

Any guesses?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

But what do you make of this:

25 translations. Eönwë's forbidden to guess.

And I guess I am forbidden too. Hilarious, though!

Originally Posted by Loslote

I don't think it's been done yet, so, at 25 translations:



Any guesses?

Honestly puzzled

[Pitchwife]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

And I guess I am forbidden too.

I'm afraid so...

Originally Posted by Legate re: Lottie's

Honestly puzzled

I say! 'Bixu Xiang' sounds like it could be some place in Khand, or rather Far Rhûn, where the stars are different etc. Not sure that's canonical, though...

But d'you all know what, since this turning more and more into a quote quiz after all (and maybe predictably so, although I didn't foresee it when I started it) I've been thinking whether we shouldn't try to establish some order of procedure rather than go on posting new translations while there are still a lot unidentified. So if you think this is fun enough to continue, I suggest we* start a new thread in Quotable Quotes**, and either

• repost all hitherto unidentified quotes there, and whoever guesses the last one gets to ask a new one, or
• we all reveal the quotes to our hitherto unidentified translations on this thread, and start afresh on the other one.

Seeing how weird some of the results have turned out, it might also be wise to set a maximum of e.g. 10 or 25 translation rounds.
Thoughts, suggestions, criticism?
*(probably meaning myself, as the original thread owner, but I'd be perfectly fine with someone else doing it once we've agreed on how to handle it.)
**(Yes, Urwen, I know you've tried to do that already... shall we just say, great minds are sometimes ahead of their time and therefore misunderstood by their contemporaries?)

[Loslote]

Sounds like a good idea. How about we just reveal our quotes? Mine was "The Road Goes Ever On and On" - the Bixu Xiang showed up after a Chinese translation early on.

[Guinevere]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

But d'you all know what, since this turning more and more into a quote quiz after all (and maybe predictably so, although I didn't foresee it when I started it) I've been thinking whether we shouldn't try to establish some order of procedure rather than go on posting new translations while there are still a lot unidentified. So if you think this is fun enough to continue, I suggest we* start a new thread in Quotable Quotes**, and either

• repost all hitherto unidentified quotes there, and whoever guesses the last one gets to ask a new one, or
• we all reveal the quotes to our hitherto unidentified translations on this thread, and start afresh on the other one.

Seeing how weird some of the results have turned out, it might also be wise to set a maximum of e.g. 10 or 25 translation rounds.
Thoughts, suggestions, criticism?
*(probably meaning myself, as the original thread owner, but I'd be perfectly fine with someone else doing it once we've agreed on how to handle it.)
**(Yes, Urwen, I know you've tried to do that already... shall we just say, great minds are sometimes ahead of their time and therefore misunderstood by their contemporaries?)

A similar Game thread started already as early as 2000 Another mistranslation ! and lasted until 2005

And this one:Lost in Translation
People used this to translate, something very like the site Pitchwife found.