Bilbo was a lot like Tolkien himself: doomed to spend his life tinkering with and revising his writings, so that in the end he managed to leave a small handful of finished works and a ton of promising fragments.I had thought of putting: and he lived happily ever afterwards to the end of his days.
The Tolkien Translation Game!
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Oops - okay, here it is; yet another place where Bilbo quotes the end of his hypothetical book:
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That’s the one!
This was an interesting one, completely by chance.
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This was an interesting one, completely by chance.
.'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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And here's the new one!
I should not end it until I resolve the confusion.
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From LOTR?
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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The word "confusion" is not in the original, but it's kinda-sorta a synonym of a word from the real quote. I can see where it came from, anyway.
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Is it Bilbo?
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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I guess I can ease back into this thread.
Was it spoken by or to a hobbit?
Was it spoken by or to a hobbit?
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Frodo to Sam?
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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Sam to Frodo?
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Another hint, please.
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"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Was it spoken in Crickhollow?
The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End
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Is it said around the same time as "Is everything sad going to come untrue"?
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Are any of the words in the translation in the original?
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"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."