From the Hobbit?

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'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude

Earlier.

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From the Second Age?

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Still earlier

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The quote has “beast” in it? Am guessing, yes. Tolkien liked that word.

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'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude

Yes and know. "Beast" does appear but it is not the full word.

Here is the quote on the new page.

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Is the original "beasts"? As in, "hunters of beasts"?

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Yes. And yes.

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Is this Yavanna and Aulë talking about the creation of the Ents?

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

Nope!

Later than that.

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Is it to do with Melkor?

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'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude

Is the speaker disparaging the people he's describing?

Edit: or the people she's describing

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Only in a very indirect way.



The actual individual speaker is not identified (it is a group that is quoted). And yes, I would say that they are disparaging the people they are describing, and are definitely not happy with them, and will add that one of the words in the original is the exact opposite of the word used in the translation.

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So, not “friends”...

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'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude

Correct (with the caveat that "friends" is included in the word).

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Unfriends?

Is it a screenshot from Melkor's facebook page?

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Yes to "unfriends". No, to the Facebook page.

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Okay, I think I found it:

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Amusing as that is, no that is not it.

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I don't have a guess, I'd just have to re-read the whole book at this point, but this tickles some little memory in my head about some army or group discussing going into a wooded land that was inhabited, and take it. I don't recall if these were men or elves on either side, but it does sound passingly familiar...

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