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Waiting for safety over the years.
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Yes.
'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 Gandalf, speaking either to Frodo at Bag End or to the Council of Elrond at Rivendell?
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No, it's not Gandalf. And those are not the places. MUCH later.
'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 Éowyn?
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.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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Noooo...
Someone else who has been waiting for years....
Someone else who has been waiting for years....
'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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Yes, the quote is about Aragorn waiting.
'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 nothing but Aragorn?
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.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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By Aragorn and about Aragorn.
'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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Apparently. Self centered git.Frelga wrote:And nothing but Aragorn?
'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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By Aragorn, about Aragorn, and in third person? That would be typical. Being married to him must have had its trials. "Men have said that Aragorn son of Arathorn forgot to take out the trash; and yet men are deceived in many things."
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Ha ha ha.
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So it's Aragorn speaking about himself in the third person, referring to waiting, probably either for the kingship or his wedding date. I think we may need another hint.
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Is it in the main text, or an appendix?
"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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It's in the main text, its Aragorn talking about waiting (alluding to his kingship but not explicitly) and it's after the quote V posted last.
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Since no one else has guessed, I'll take a shot.
Is it Aragorn to Gandalf after being given the palantír: "‘When have I been hasty or unwary, who have waited and prepared for so many long years?"
Is it Aragorn to Gandalf after being given the palantír: "‘When have I been hasty or unwary, who have waited and prepared for so many long years?"
"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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Bingo!
Your turn.
Your turn.
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