03-09-2009, 10:15 PM | #461 |
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'us' is wrong, the rest is correct.
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"up" then. and there's clearly a Gandalf in that line somewhere.
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03-09-2009, 10:53 PM | #463 |
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"O let 'em all come! Hurry up! Come along, you two,
and sit down! But look here, Gandalf, even now we have only got yourself and ten Dwarves and the hobbit that was lost. That only makes eleven (plus one /_i_l_i_/) and you /f_u_t_e_/, unless wizards count differently to other people. But you please get on with the tale." sounds like a Beorn quote
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The 'you' in line 5 (/_o_/f_u_t_e_/) and the 'you' in line 6 (But/_o_/) are both wrong. Otherwise everything is correct now.
And it is a Beorn quote.
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03-10-2009, 03:05 PM | #465 |
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Line 5: "not fourteen"
Line 6: "But now"
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Is that last word a regular word, or something that Beorn either makes up or doesn't say right? ... the '/_i_l_i_/'?
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DPR has the correct corrections.
The last, '/_i_l_i_/', is a regular word, but Beorn is using it a bit tongue-in-cheek. It's a description, not a name, and you wouldn't usually say it about a person. That's as much of a hint as I guess you'll need ...
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03-12-2009, 08:26 AM | #468 |
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'Sirloin' fits if Beorn thought one of them looked tasty. This is a tough out.
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No, he's not referring to him as tasty. He is somehow referring to something he has said earlier in the quote ...
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03-13-2009, 09:28 AM | #470 |
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I hate to keep asking for hints, but is it a palindrome?
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Not at all. It just so happens that the remaining letters are symmetrical.
It's a kind of compound word - it doesn't use a hyphen, but if it did, it would be '/_i_/-/l_i_/'.
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Would you like more hints?
Like how many vowels and consonants are missing?
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I'm just plain stumped.
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"we have only got yourself and ten Dwarves and the hobbit
that was lost. That only makes eleven (plus one '/_i_/-/l_i_/')" Beorn is referring to the one that was lost, only this time using a different word for it, and a word that isn't ordinarily used about persons. One vowel and three consonants to go ...
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OK - I was thinking about what other word he might use for a Hobbit - without thinking about what might be used for lost:
mislaid? About the only things I could come up with for the second half were 'laid' or 'lain' - the first half I just couldn't work out. But then, I was thinking the wrong direction.
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FINALLY!
Yes, mislaid was the missing word. There has been a lot of heavy thinking from the participants this time Good job, Valandil! Your turn
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Er, Val?
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Sorry DPR. I've been away, but... preoccupied.
"B_c_u_e/_w_/B_a_k/_i_e_s/_a_e/_v_r_a_e_/u_/t_d_y/, /_r/_n_/h_s/_o_e/_o/_w_c_/; /o_l_/a/_i_t_e/_h_l_/a_o/_e/_l_p_e_/a_a_/a_/y_u/_r_w/_e_r." Sorry so short a quote, after so long a time. But it will need to suffice.
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Because two Black Riders have overtaken us today,
or one has done so twice; only a little while ago he slipped away as you drew near. It's a 50-50 guess on the speaker...Frodo?
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Quote is correct, speaker is not.
Got another 50?
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