The Tolkien Translation Game!

[Inanna]

Use the dawn

[Jude]

Is that an actual quote? It's not the answer...

[Inanna]

I was thinking of Aragorn at Helm's Deep. So I had to look up the actual quote:

"The Dawn is not far off"

[Jude]

Hint: it's much shorter than the original quote. Think of a much longer quote, with a totally different overall meaning but some of the same actual words.

[Inanna]

"use" & "morning"? Or "the"?

[Jude]

Another hint: the dialogue at this point is rather whimsical. The character goes on to say:

Get more of me, get rid of it now.

At least, he does when his words get passed through the Translation Party.

[Jude]

Is another hint needed?

[Alatar]

Wouldn't hurt!

[Jude]

The end result is much shorter than the original quote. It doesn't have the word "the" in it, but the other two words are there.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Is it Gandalf saying to Bilbo, "What a lot of things you do use Good morning for"?

[Jude]

[Inanna]

Oh. Of course.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

This one should be pretty easy.

"Green Earth? Light step and a powerful legend has it!"

[Alatar]

Ooh. Is it Éomer to Aragorn at their first meeting? Something about Legends springing to life from the green earth?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

You're close, but not close enough.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

To be clearer, you have the right meeting, but the wrong speaker, and the description of what the quote is isn't quite right either.

[Jude]

I looked it up - Éomer says something very similar about a page before this quote...

[Voronwë the Faithful]

True enough!

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I guess that makes it close enough after all. The actual comment of Aragorn to Éomer is "The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!"

Your go, Al!

[Jude]

Wow, that makes it three quotes that match the translated output. I was thinking it was the quote of the unnamed rider to Éomer expressing his skepticism that hobbits actually exist.

"Halflings! But they are only a little people in old songs and children's tales out of the North. Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?"