The Tolkien Translation Game!
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Oh, to Gandalf?
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.
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Er. In case anyone is waiting for me to reply, please don't, for of clues I have none.
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.
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And if I had half an hour to spend with the book, I would undoubtedly have found it. 
Alas.
Alas.
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.
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'But I begin to wish, somehow, that I had gone too. I wonder if I shall ever see him again.’
ETA: In the earlier of the two conversations that you reference (although actually there was another brief conversation between Frodo and Gandalf even earlier than that), just before Gandalf goes off to discover the truth about the Ring.
ETA: In the earlier of the two conversations that you reference (although actually there was another brief conversation between Frodo and Gandalf even earlier than that), just before Gandalf goes off to discover the truth about the Ring.
"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'll come up with a new one when I get a chance.
"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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ROFL
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"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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Jude 
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.
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Who is that wretched man?
"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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Spoken In the Golden Hall?
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Wrong book. (And it is not the Silmarillion.)
"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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A couple of hints. There is a change from plural (in the original) to singular (in the translation). And the adjective is a synonym.
"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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No. And the plural word used in the original quote is not "men".
"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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Miserable Hobbits by any chance?
The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End