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Old 06-03-2004, 05:15 AM   #561
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"It is proving very useful indeed," said the Second Voice "As a holyday and a refreshment."
to the First Voice, about Niggle's Parish.
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Old 06-03-2004, 05:17 AM   #562
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Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!Estelyn Telcontar has reached the Cracks of Doom and destroyed the Ring!
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That's right, Guinevere! Now you can puzzle us with a new one...
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Old 06-05-2004, 09:59 AM   #563
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... I have so much work to do in real life
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Old 06-06-2004, 06:21 AM   #564
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'Twould be a shame if you weren't, Guinevere!
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'This is grand!' he said. 'I oughtn't to be here, really. Thank you for putting in a word for me.'
Parish is the speaker, Niggle the one he thanks, both having learned to appreciate each other in the afterlife. (Leaf by Niggle)
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Old 06-06-2004, 12:54 PM   #565
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Thumbs up Indeed.

Your turn again.
(btw, have you looked at the "Quotes in other languages thread" lately? nobody seems to want to solve my German quote! )
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Old 06-06-2004, 01:22 PM   #566
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Here are words that could apply to our Barrow:
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It's dark and cold.
(Guinevere, I recognize that quote on the other thread, though I'd have to search for the exact location. But what do I do then? German and English are my only languages, so I couldn't contribute anything different...)
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Old 06-08-2004, 12:42 PM   #567
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More complaining, Torhthelm?

For 'tis he, to the long-suffering Tídwald in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son:
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Hey! what a bump, Tida! My bones are shaken,
and my dream shattered. It's dark and cold.
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Old 06-08-2004, 02:11 PM   #568
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You got it, Squatter! Proceed at will.
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Old 06-08-2004, 02:41 PM   #569
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At last: the meaning of life...

Whence came this insight?

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the large slow oddity of cows
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Old 06-08-2004, 03:24 PM   #570
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I found it! It's in Mythopoeia, which is spoken by Philomythus to Misomythus. He tells of creation:
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The movements of the sea, the wind in boughs,
green grass, the large slow oddity of cows...
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Old 06-09-2004, 03:39 AM   #571
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That's the fellow.
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Old 06-09-2004, 04:22 AM   #572
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Here's a quote that might apply to other threads, but of course never to this one!
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Stop this NONSENSE!
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1420!

That sounds autothalassic enough to be the Great Sea Serpent, complaining about Artaxerxes' failed attempts to control his movements. Of course, the Mer-people demand exactly the same thing of their king en masse, but I don't think that they do it in block capitals. In either case, Roverandom is the work in question.
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That'd be merfolk, as they urged Mr Arterxaxes, I mean Ertaxarxes, oh, whatever (that is not Rover only to have problems with spelling of his name, you see ) to come out and 'do something' about Sea-Serpent

On the other hand, that may be Sea-Serpent itself, as it tried to make Mr Ataxerxexexs stop doing abovementioned 'something', that is, mighty spell of his, causing insomnia in Serpent

edit: Cross-poster here, Squatter . You have 7 minutes in your favour, so take it away as Esty confirms it (that is, I do believe it is pretty safe bet we've got correct answers)

BTW, what does 'autothalassic' stand for?
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Old 06-09-2004, 05:18 AM   #575
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Too slow, Heren. You have to type quicker than that to beat me.
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Indeed, it was the Sea-Serpent who shouted it - all caps would have been bad etiquette on the internet... Take it away, Squatter!
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curiosity killed (or was it called?) the cat...

er, do my eyes deceive me, or did you merge two 'minor' threads back to one? Only it was some 4 or 5 pages long, and now it is 15...
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A possible addendum to Saucepan's post

I feel that the following quotation is appropriate here.
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You seem surprised
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Well, I was certainly surprised about the sudden increase of the number of pages, too!

But the quote is Chrysophylax speaking to Giles:
"Good morning!" said the dragon. "You seem surprised."
"Good morning!" said Giles. "I am that."
A very polite dragon!
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Old 06-09-2004, 03:15 PM   #581
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The very fellow, Guinevere. Of course, Chrysophylax is the true hero of that story.
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Old 06-10-2004, 01:06 PM   #582
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thank you, dear Squatter!
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Pipe Another aptly named character

Alf, the King of Faerie, to the eponymous hero in Smith of Wootton Major.

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'No one knew but me. I was the only one with him.'
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Pipe The night's for posting, but...

Perhaps this one's too easy, but I like it.
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This one was easy to find, if only because of the fact that I checked your favorite minor work first! A dreary comment by Tídwald to Torhthelm in The Homecoming...:
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It's night right enough; but there's no firelight:
dark is over all, and dead is master.
When morning comes, it'll be much like others:
more labour and loss till the land's ruined;
ever work and war till the world passes.
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Pipe Captain Predictable strikes again

Certainly is.
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Silmaril A bit more optomistic...

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I expect it will turn out all right.
I hope so!
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That was the Master Cook to his apprentice Alf:

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Sounds familiar...
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That's the person, Mariska! I do hope that the end of the passage doesn't apply to those who are on vacation from this thread!
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I do hope that the end of the passage doesn't apply to those who are on vacation from this thread!
indeed!


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Good luck on the new one.
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Pipe A quote from a real person!

That's Andrew Lang, the Victorian philologist and compiler of variously coloured Fairy Books. Tolkien quotes him in On Fairy-Stories on the subject of mercy and justice in the realm of Faerie.
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Andrew Lang was confused on this point. He was at pains to defend the slaying of the Yellow Dwarf by Prince Ricardo in one of his own fairy-stories. 'I hate cruelty,' he said, '...but that was in a fair fight, sword in hand, and the dwarf, peace to his ashes! died in harness.'
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Old 06-26-2004, 01:41 PM   #593
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Needless to say, that you are absolutely right, Mister Squatter!
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Old 06-27-2004, 03:38 AM   #594
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Old 06-27-2004, 06:44 AM   #595
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Caudimordax, a nice big sword with a history, lineage and engravings!
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Only Tailbiter, that was given to me by the King.
Chrysophylax asked, and the title hero, Farmer Giles of Ham, answered.
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Old 06-27-2004, 09:22 AM   #596
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Pipe A good sword is hard to come by

That's right.

I've been getting complaints lately that Tolkien's characters have great swords practically dropped into their laps, whereas mine have to put up with all sorts of inconvenient eccentricities. Mind you, I'm still writing the plot for the character in question, and I might decide that he'd be more interesting dead.

'Indeed, Master. You have my most humble gratitude for this, the greatest blade yet borne by any hero who is me.'

Sarcastic, but it'll do. Now shut up and smoke your pipe until I need you. And bear in mind that I never wrote Windósil out of the narrative.

'I hate you'

That is a perfect way to start.

What was I saying again?
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Old 06-27-2004, 10:34 AM   #597
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Well, be it sword, swordsman/woman or whatever, perhaps it could be said of them:
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whatever in this case, or a doggy (sea doggy, to be precise). That'd be merdog, under the name of Rover, first of the name, as his first master's sailors said about him:

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Old 06-28-2004, 03:03 AM   #599
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Yes, you got it completely right! That was a quote within a quote, a bit tricky, I must admit.
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