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peonydeepdelver · 01-04-2003, 04:42 PM

ok this isn't exactly something that someone says but it's funny how tokien describes it. (it's in the two towers, book 4, near the end of ch. 2)
"The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about."
I was cracking up earlier, and my dad was staring at me like I was crazy. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

01-04-2003, 04:42 PM	#11
peonydeepdelver Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alas, I hail from Massachusetts Posts: 256	ok this isn't exactly something that someone says but it's funny how tokien describes it. (it's in the two towers, book 4, near the end of ch. 2) "The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about." I was cracking up earlier, and my dad was staring at me like I was crazy. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ "Nazgul, Nazgul! You speak of what is deep beyond the reach of your muddy dreams, Ugluk! Nazgul! Ah! All that they make out! One day you'll wish that you had not said that. Ape! You ought to know that they're the apple of the Great Eye." ~Grishnakh