The Tolkien Translation Game!
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Yup - the second one.
'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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New quote:
I'm just as surprised as you at the "hey" and the "ain't".
Hey, you, evil, stupid, the service is still. Nibble the edges of the old plot to choose to stay. Then, stay! warn, a simple I ain't coming back.
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Saruman to wormtongue?
'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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Is it Sam's song about the old troll?
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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Is it Gandalf talking to Suruman: "You might still have turned away from folly and evil, and have been of service. But you choose to stay and gnaw the ends of your old plots. Stay then! But I warn you, you will not easily come out again."
"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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Oh yeah, I'm supposed to post a new one. 
I thought about going with a translation of the troll's purse saying "'oo are you?" but that just translated to "' Object-oriented are you?" and that didn't seem to be much fun, so I went with this instead:
"So what's next. 3 I heard some strange doings to listen at the door under the sleeping area and the Hobbit! something powerful behind this is wrong ".
I thought about going with a translation of the troll's purse saying "'oo are you?" but that just translated to "' Object-oriented are you?" and that didn't seem to be much fun, so I went with this instead:
"So what's next. 3 I heard some strange doings to listen at the door under the sleeping area and the Hobbit! something powerful behind this is wrong ".
"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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Is it from The Hobbit?
'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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Is it the fox?
'Hobbits!' he thought. 'Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There's something mighty queer behind this.'
'Hobbits!' he thought. 'Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There's something mighty queer behind this.'
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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Frelga has it! Very impressive. Did you follow the thought process of something said by an inanimate object to something said by an normally non-sentient being?
"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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Not really, I just remembered the quote. 
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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Fall of snow crystal design and commercial music, please consider all the rain.
One word is in the translation for reasons that are unfathomable to me.
One word is in the translation for reasons that are unfathomable to me.
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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Going to need a hint... All I can think of is a story in Irika's book about fairies making snowflakes.
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That actually IS a very good hint.
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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huh.
'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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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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