The Tolkien Translation Game!

[Jude]

Fly fuel over the fire! Draw your blades and stand on your back!

[Inanna]

From the Hobbit?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

When the Wargs attack after the Fellowship has retreated from Caradhras.

‘Fling fuel on the fire!’ cried Gandalf to the hobbits. ‘Draw your blades, and stand back to back!’

[Jude]

That's the one!

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I have found recently that TranslationParty either barely changes something, or changes it to something completely unrecognizable.

After I tried one that barely changed at all and was too easy, I tried:

You know, then, what this thing is?

I got:

It was Hector.



And in only two iterations. It first went to "So what is this?" and then immediately changed to "It was Hector." No question mark. How is that even possible?

I'll try again.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Here is the new one:

This is the tunnel leading to the tomb. Stay there forever

[Alatar]

Malbeth the Seer?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Nope!

Here is a hint. It is someone speaking (or just thinking) to themself.

[Alatar]

Related to Shelobs Lair?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Nope!

[Alatar]

Barrow downs?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Much later. Your first guess was much closer in time. Looking at the Tale of Years, I think it slightly after Shelob's Lair chronologically-speaking.

[Inanna]

So… not related to Frodo & Sam, then.

Aragorn?

[Inanna]

Hang on, no. “Paths of the Dead” is before Shelob, right?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Not related to Frodo, Sam, Aragorn, or the Paths of the Dead.

[Frelga]

Denethor?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Nope!

[Inanna]

But in Gondor?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Yes!

[Inanna]

Merry following Théoden and Éowyn’s bodies through the streets of Gondor, gets despondent, physically lost as well, and thinks to himself:

“This is a tunnel, leading to a tomb; there we shall stay for ever.”