The Tolkien Quote Game [Archive]

Bantan

11-14-2001, 10:39 PM

:) Hi, it's been awhile since the last time i posted here and i thought of a neat game(it's a long story but in a roundabout way i got the idea from the anything post). Anyway, i call it the TOLKIEN QUOTE GAME!!!Somebody gives a quote from anything having to do with Mr. Tolkien's works. It could be what a character said, what someone said aboutabout LotR, the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, etc. or it could be something Mr. Tolkien said himself. Then someone posts the answer and a new quote.

to get it started i chose a really easy one it's from the 2nd book of the Fellowship.Have fun!:D

"The finest rockets ever seen:they burst in stars of blue and green... " -????

surjay

11-15-2001, 03:11 AM

from "An Ode to Mithrandir"

It's the little snippet added on to the end by Sam.

here's mine:

"Fifteen birds......in five fir trees/
their feathers were fanned.....in a fiery breeze/
but, funny lil birds....they have no wings/
oh what should we do.....with the funny lil things//"

Tessar

11-15-2001, 10:23 AM

the orks in "The Hobbit", they were planing to eat the dwarves and bilbo

hummmmmmmmmmmmm, I dont know many.

ok this is so easy its bad, but this is all i can think of.

All that is gold does not glitter

Wayfarer

11-15-2001, 04:31 PM

that's either from gandalfs letter in breee or bilbo during the council.

This is a hard one:

'It was evening, and the stars were glimmering in the eastern sky as they passed the ruined oak and turned and went on down the hill between the hazel thickets.'

Ñólendil

11-15-2001, 06:44 PM

Three Is Company in Book I? I remember that Pippin, Sam and Frodo had lunch in an oak tree that had a large hole in it (but was still alive).

Wayfarer

11-15-2001, 07:24 PM

Right tree. Wrong place.

Ñólendil

11-15-2001, 07:45 PM

It was Shortcut to Mushrooms, then. :) If I'm right I'll dig up a quote.

Wayfarer

11-15-2001, 07:56 PM

Nope.

Geographically, you're in the right area.

As far as the books go... you'd be hard pressed to be more wrong.

Finglas

11-15-2001, 08:20 PM

Ok, now it's obvious. The Grey Havens, Frodo and Sam are going to Rivendell to visit Bilbo.

"Sam frowned. If he could have bored holes in Gollum with his eyes, he would have done it."

Ñólendil

11-15-2001, 11:02 PM

Book IV, Taming of Sméagol?

ArwenEvenstar

11-17-2001, 04:50 PM

I have no clue.

Bacchus

11-17-2001, 11:31 PM

I don't think it's Taming of Smeagol. Sounds more like "The Black Gate is Closed" to me.

Bacchus

11-17-2001, 11:50 PM

I'm 99% sure I got that one right, so here's mine.

There's got to be some fighting before this is settled, Mr. Frodo.

Kirinki54

11-19-2001, 04:16 PM

Bacchus, that must be `The Scouring of the Shire`. No?

I´ll chance and post:

"For I do not suppose that he will think you have improved the view from his windows."

Kirinki54

11-19-2001, 04:21 PM

BTW, isn´t it old Bacchus? This place is getting full of friends!

Wayfarer

11-19-2001, 04:38 PM

That quote was gandalf, talking to treebeard, about saruman.

Couldn't tell you the chapter... but I would guess the voice of saruman.

Bacchus

11-19-2001, 06:42 PM

Yep, same old Bacchus. BTW, Kirinki, you got the chapter, but who said it?

Your quote was by Gandalf, but it occurred in "Many Partings", not "The Voice of Saruman"

Bacchus

11-20-2001, 03:29 AM

While we're waiting for the speaker of the line:

"There's got to be some fighting before this is done, Mr Frodo."

Here's another one to think of:

"Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the sunlight?"

Kirinki54

11-20-2001, 10:58 AM

Sorry Bacchus, missed the 'speaker' part.
Obviously dear Sam, who else would call him Mr Frodo?

Your next one, I think it is said by Eomer when he first meets Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, whatever that chapter is called.

Bacchus

11-25-2001, 10:52 PM

Sorry for the slow reply, I've been on vacation.

I regret to inform you that Sam was not the speaker of the "Mr Frodo" line, nor was Eomer the speaker of the "Legends" line.

Keep trying!

Kirinki54

11-26-2001, 04:47 PM

All right Bacchus, the politely belligerent one was Farmer Cotton.

Kirinki54

11-26-2001, 05:48 PM

And your other question: not Eomer, but Eothain!!

Now try this one:
'For I believe not,' said he, 'that the One will ever be found again in Middle Earth. Into Andion it fell, and long ago, I deem, it was rolled to the Sea. There it shall lie until the end, when all the world is broken and the deeps are removed.'

Wayfarer

11-26-2001, 07:23 PM

Saruman? I'm pretty sure that's who it is.

Ñólendil

11-26-2001, 09:14 PM

Yes, and the man who is quoting him is Gandalf.

Bacchus

11-27-2001, 02:48 PM

And the chapter was "The Council of Elrond"

I shall defer to Wayfarer for the next quote

Wayfarer

11-28-2001, 01:33 PM

Eh? Oh. Sorry. We got sixteen inches of snow recently, and our sewer backed up, so I've been sort of busy...

Heheheh.

"Aye! Aye! Come back to find all my house and land in a pickle. Blast Dragons!"

Have fun with that. ]:)

Kirinki54

11-28-2001, 05:34 PM

Saruman yes. Gandalf quoting him no. Place where quote appears wrong.
Try again, fellows! :)

Wayfarer

11-28-2001, 05:49 PM

Of rings of power and the third age, then?

Kirinki54

11-29-2001, 04:57 PM

Right, Wayfarer. (In the Sil.)
Now whose turn is it?

Wayfarer

11-29-2001, 06:32 PM

Repost :

"Aye! Aye! Come back to find all my house and land in a pickle. Blast Dragons!"

Bacchus

12-01-2001, 02:08 PM

The obvious answer seems to be Bilbo, at the end of the Hobbit, but I suspect that this is too simple. I'll have a look later today.

Wayfarer

12-01-2001, 05:36 PM

]:) <-mad cow.

That's a 'no'.

Ñólendil

12-01-2001, 10:12 PM

You trickster you. That's from Farmer Giles of Ham, isn't it? No, ... can't be. Whatever text you got it from though, it isn't a Middle-earthian one, and that makes it hard. :(

Bacchus

12-02-2001, 10:04 AM

Farmer Giles was my thought, but I wanted to look it up rather than guessing. I haven't found the quote, but the tone certainly matches.

Wayfarer

12-02-2001, 04:30 PM

]:)

Ñólendil

12-02-2001, 05:32 PM

Yes, and I did look it up, but couldn't find it and I concluded that it wasn't in there. There's no part of the story where a character comes home and finds his house and land in a pickle, and certainly not because of Crysofolax (or however you spell the worm's name).

Wayfarer

12-02-2001, 05:51 PM

Well... It was in there. It was actually towards the beginning. I'll check to make sure.

Ñólendil

12-02-2001, 06:05 PM

I don't think so. I've looked, I can't find it, and I've read it recently. Crysophylax Dives is the Dragon, and in his first encounter with characters (Garm and Giles) he is driven back to Ham by the Farmer and Tailbiter (a legendary sword, a gift from the King because of his valour shone when the giant invaded the Kingdom), and there he is cornered and made to bargain for his life, Giles is enlarged to hero status.

Bacchus

12-02-2001, 06:32 PM

Found it! p. 166 of the Tolkien reader. Between the first and second encounters with Chrysophylax.

Wayfarer

12-02-2001, 06:32 PM

Great. ;) Your turn!

Bacchus

12-02-2001, 06:35 PM

Now for something a little more difficult.
Name the speaker and chapter, and translate the passage

Et Earello Endorenna utulien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta!

Ñólendil

12-02-2001, 11:22 PM

Aragorn, 'Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world', The Steward and the King.

Here is mine: As their work drew to an end they allowed themselves more and more time for walking about, looking at the trees, and the flowers, and the lights and shapes, and the lie of the land.