The Tolkien Translation Game!
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That's brilliant! Wrong, but brilliant!
"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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Lol!
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Rudy Giuliani should be impeached for practising law while impaired.
(say it out loud)
(say it out loud)
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Getting back on track, the person spoken to is also an Orc.
"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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OK, for real now. Is this between two orcs in Cirith Ungol? Didn't one of them call another something along the lines of peaching sneak-thief? Or did I make it up? 
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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Found it, in Mordor proper.It's the unnamed tracker orc (whose name could be Rudy for all we know).
You cursed peaching sneakthief!
You cursed peaching sneakthief!
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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Well done (and forever after, the tracker orc will be Rudy to me; after all, even as we speak he is in Budapest meeting with the same discredited, corrupt Ukrainians trying to track down dirt on Biden, etc.)
Your turn!
Your turn!
"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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But this is the same size as elm wood, 7 yards, 1 inch
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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Sounds like the hobbit describing a possible Ent sighting in Hobbiton. Someone's cousin Hal?
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You got the right scene, although Hal is not the speaker.
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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I think it was Sam talking to Ted Sandyman I think, but I'll have to check my books. It was something like "My cousin Hal swears he saw an Elm on the North Downs(?) and it was walking, seven yards to a stride if it was an inch" "I'll bet it was an inch then" "But there's no elms on the North Downs" "Then your cousin Hal can't have seen one" and something about the crowd seemed to think Sandyman had scored a point.
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You got it, Al. I say it's good enough.
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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Just for accuracy here's the actual quote. "But this one was as big as an elm tree, and walking - walking seven yards to a stride, if it was an inch" (And it was on the North moors, not the North Downs 
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New quote:
If you believe in an old story, it is not new. And I don't know what is important to me or you.
)New quote:
If you believe in an old story, it is not new. And I don't know what is important to me or you.
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Is this during one of the conversations between Frodo and Sam in which they speculate as to whether anyone will write about them?
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Is the speaker Aragorn?
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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Gandalf?
'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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Sounds like something an elf would say.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus