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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark. |
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11-17-2003, 02:39 PM | #122 | |
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...and yet another variation on a popular homophone:
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12-01-2003, 05:11 AM | #123 | |
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12-10-2003, 03:34 PM | #124 | |
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Not sure if this counts as a homophone (at least in most peoples' version of the English language), but in case you thought that Éowyn's bower was "a hutch to trammel some wild thing in", it seems you were sadly mistaken. It actually reads:
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12-12-2003, 03:16 PM | #125 | |
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A little known fact about one of the Ainur - Morgoth was a baker!!
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01-28-2004, 03:27 AM | #126 | ||
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(Now, we don't mention names here, but I got a kick out of the fact that both of these typos came from authors who are involved in a serious writing project that started on the Downs... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] )
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01-29-2004, 11:41 AM | #127 | |
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Robust greetings:
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02-06-2004, 09:05 PM | #128 | |
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The perennial favourite makes yet another appearance ...
Gandalf exposed in Rohan! Quote:
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03-03-2004, 10:02 PM | #130 | |
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark. |
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03-04-2004, 07:09 PM | #131 |
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hear's one:Hear here! (slightly copied....but its still fresh off the vine)
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Это - российская вещь, Вы не поняли бы. Вы - пончик желе! Я оказался снова. Частное сообщение меня, если Вы понимаете. Last edited by Nirvana II; 03-04-2004 at 07:22 PM. |
03-07-2004, 11:03 AM | #132 | |
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Here's a new twist to one of our favorite homophones:
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03-29-2004, 12:39 PM | #133 | |
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Two-in-one:
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03-29-2004, 02:52 PM | #134 | |
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03-30-2004, 02:54 PM | #135 | ||
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Yet more misused homophones.......
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03-30-2004, 05:11 PM | #136 |
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Sam 'herd' a burst of 'horse' singing, blaring of horns, banging of gongs, a hideous clamour.
Yes, I think that hearing a herd of orcs singing like horses would be a hideous clamour!
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03-30-2004, 05:16 PM | #137 |
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All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have 'dyed' in battle and honour , you have 'leaves' to be burned in the house, for the men will 'knead' it no more.
strange role reversals: men dying their hair and making bread; women doing yard work, but doing it inside the house.
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04-12-2004, 06:13 AM | #138 | |
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Nautical but Nice
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04-17-2004, 03:47 AM | #139 | |
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05-17-2004, 11:51 AM | #140 | |
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Gah!
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07-15-2004, 06:35 AM | #141 | |
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This one is tricky, admittedly...
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07-20-2004, 03:36 AM | #142 | |
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07-21-2004, 11:12 AM | #143 | ||
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09-01-2004, 01:15 PM | #144 | |
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Yet another one.
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09-13-2004, 11:38 AM | #145 | |
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09-13-2004, 12:06 PM | #146 |
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"Sir Ian Mc Kellen, would not say Macbeth due to the superstition that if it is spoken, in a theatre, while a production is being planned as it causes things to go wrong. The reason why they say their is a curse, is because it is believed, Shakespeare had a playright call Christopher Mallory killed, and took his writings and claimed them as his own, and Mallory knew of Shakespeares jealosy of him, when Mallory was stabbed,Mallory is suposed to have cursed any work that shakespeare claimed to be his, if it had not been."
I hope playright is enough to qualify butI thought it worth quoting in it's entirety for enlightenment on this mysterious episode in the history of English Literature....
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10-16-2004, 10:04 AM | #147 | |
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Elusive allusion? Or an illusion?
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10-31-2004, 11:52 AM | #148 | |
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11-02-2004, 01:25 PM | #149 |
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I always wondered how the elves of Rivendell and Lorien managed to cultivate enough food for the community in a ravine and a forest but I didn't realise they were practising cannibalism..
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12-19-2004, 03:39 PM | #150 | |
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Here's one I just found over in Crazy Captions:
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12-19-2004, 08:16 PM | #151 |
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Oh, pooh, Enca's gotten to it first...
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01-17-2005, 02:07 PM | #152 | |
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01-30-2005, 07:12 AM | #153 | |
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eek!
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02-01-2005, 06:04 PM | #154 | |
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Mr Right meets Captain Obvious ...
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"Debauchery's a funny thing (no, bare with me....."
Quite an offer from the most-stalked downer.......
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I must thank Keeper of Dol Guldur for keeping this gem out of sight of the general public. It would have entirely changed the context of that part of the story, and certainly explained why the all the jaws in the room dropped upon my character's entrance!
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04-25-2005, 12:12 AM | #157 | |
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05-31-2005, 12:41 AM | #158 | |
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Pot? Kettle? Black?
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06-01-2005, 11:51 AM | #159 | |
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Not quite a homophone, yet more than a typo:
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Almost a homophone
"there is a barrowwright ...."
Well I guess someone had to make the barrows....
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