From FOTR?
PS: To interested folks, Irika read the Hobbit - not the whole thing, but from Riddles chapter to the end (she can't let go of a book).
The Tolkien Translation Game!
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'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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"Here is the last parting of our ways," said Faramir. "If you take my counsel, you will not turn eastward yet."
Just like in the movies.
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Just like in the movies.
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But it has been said for a long time: often evil will hurt evil.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus
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Is that the Théoden line I quoted in the other thread the other day?
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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Which other thread?
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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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My brain ain't what it used to be. Especially since the bout of Transient Global Amnesia a year ago.
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Well, since Frelga had the answer before I even posted the question, I'd say she's next.
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Well?
'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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Now, go home and sleep before whipping.
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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Sorry; did not mean to whip you! I did sleep after that "Well?"!!
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I would say that is probably some unidentified ruffians to the hobbits who moved the barrier aside and let them into a trap: ‘Now run home to bed before you’re whipped.’
"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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You got it, V.
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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For one thing, he had not heard them suck through his mouth.
(I removed the "said _______" from the middle of this sentence, in order to avoid giving away the speaker.)
(I removed the "said _______" from the middle of this sentence, in order to avoid giving away the speaker.)
"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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Does the original start with "For one thing" or something similar?
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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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Is Sam sucking Bill the Ponys teeth 
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Nope.
"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 words didn't change all that much, but it went from first person to third person, and the action that the person hadn't heard about switched directions.
"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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Ah wait I think I know this one. Its someone talking about the Hobbits. "I had not heard that they breathe smoke from their mouths" or something. Either Merry or Pippin replies that it was Tobold Hornblower who introduced the art of smoking. Is it Théoden in Flotsam and Jetsam?
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Yup!
"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."