Or it's just so easy that you can't be bothered?
The Tolkien Translation Game!
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I would find a hint useful. 
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Okay...
It's not too far away from the other quote I considered (I posted it on the previous page, and it came out as "You folks"? - Subtle. )
It's not too far away from the other quote I considered (I posted it on the previous page, and it came out as "You folks"? - Subtle. )
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Perhaps Frodo imagining Bilbo's voice in a dream: Snowstorms on January the twelfth: there was no need to come back to report that!
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Thanks Jude!
I brought him to once again bring our costs here are afraid.
I brought him to once again bring our costs here are afraid.
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From LOTR?
'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, saying about Sauron: "But we must at all costs keep his Eye from his true peril."
"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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The quote is not by Gandalf, but it is about him.
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Are any of the words in the translation in the original?
"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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The original quote includes the word "cost" (TranslationParty turned it into a plural) and a word with a similar meaning to "afraid". Also "to", "again", "our", and "here", though not in that order.
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Aragorn speaking about Gandalf in Moria: "He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself."
"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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That's the one!
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Well this is pretty strange! I tried to do "In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen." It came up with "In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen not dark but beautiful, and terrible as the dawn!" In other words, it basically added the next line, even though it wasn't included in the original that I typed. That's pretty eerie!!
I'll come up with another one later.
I'll come up with another one later.
"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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We are using it too much.
'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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Future generations will look back on this as the moment the Translation Party became self aware...
The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End
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. . . and a total Tolkien geek. . . .
“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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It was so intrigued by all those quotes that it started reading the books for itself.
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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Part of this changed a lot and part of it changed not at all.
Thank goodness I have you.
Thank goodness I have you.
"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."