The Tolkien Translation Game!
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So “wake up” is present in the original?
'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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Well, not verbatim.
To bring to the new page:
To bring to the new page:
Why did you wake up? I'm not on guard.
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I'm gonna sit this one out.
"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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Let’s narrow down the book, then… the number of times someone is one guard and someone is awake or not, is mind boggling…
From LOTR?
And if yes, FoTR, TTT or ROTK?
From LOTR?
And if yes, FoTR, TTT or ROTK?
'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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Hobbits involved?
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus
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Yes, the dialogue was between a hobbit and a member of a different race.
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Isn't this where Gandalf relieves Pippin after he has been put on watch as a "reward" for his foolish stone? No books to hand.
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When they just enter Lothlórien, and are sleeping up in the trees?
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I feel compelled to give the answer.
Frodo to Aragorn on the Great River: ‘Why are you waking?’ asked Frodo. ‘It is not your watch.’
Frodo to Aragorn on the Great River: ‘Why are you waking?’ asked Frodo. ‘It is not your watch.’
"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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This should be easy, but I found it amusing.
Why did you do that? This is even worse than what your friends say! You failed! Or should I say you broke your finger?
Why did you do that? This is even worse than what your friends say! You failed! Or should I say you broke your finger?
"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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I was sure that someone would guess this one right away. Do we need a hint?
"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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I recognized it right away. I was highly amused at how the third sentence was shortened 
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Maybe you and I can just go back and forth and answer each other's submissions.
"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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Sam when he thinks Frodo is dead/taken?
Let the other societies take the skilled, the hopefuls, the ambitious, the self-confident. He’d take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones who knew they could make it big if only they’d been given the chance. Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and lowgrade paranoia.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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No, much earlier that that (but still 3rd Age).
"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."