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Maciliel
Valinor
Sep 20 2013, 9:37pm
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"out flew a red-golden dragon -- not life-size, but terribly life-like; fire came from his jaws, his eyes glared down; there was a roar, and he whizzed three times over the heads of the crowd."
absolutely +no-one+ is going to guess +this+.
cheers --
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aka. fili orc-enshield
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the scene, as i understand it, is exceptionally well-written. fili (in sort of a callback to the scene with the eagles), calls out "thorRIIIIIIN!!!" just as he sees the pale orc veer in for the kill. he picks up the severed arm of an orc which is lying on the ground, swings it up in desperation, effectively blocking the pale orc's blow. and thus, forever after, fili is known as "fili orc-enshield."
this earns him deep respect from his hard-to-please uncle. as well as a hug. kili wipes his boots on the pale orc's glory box. -- maciliel telpemairo
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Maciliel
Valinor
Sep 20 2013, 9:40pm
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i stumbled over that as well, magpie. i didn't quite understand what "past the 5th sentence" meant, so i counted five sentences, and posted the next one.
then i re-read the original post -- and it says "post" the 5th sentence.
cheers --
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aka. fili orc-enshield
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the scene, as i understand it, is exceptionally well-written. fili (in sort of a callback to the scene with the eagles), calls out "thorRIIIIIIN!!!" just as he sees the pale orc veer in for the kill. he picks up the severed arm of an orc which is lying on the ground, swings it up in desperation, effectively blocking the pale orc's blow. and thus, forever after, fili is known as "fili orc-enshield."
this earns him deep respect from his hard-to-please uncle. as well as a hug. kili wipes his boots on the pale orc's glory box. -- maciliel telpemairo
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Sep 20 2013, 10:54pm
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"The fictional romance of Mars continues, . . .
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but the true romance is (albeit, as yet, problematically) in the future."
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Brethil
Half-elven
Sep 20 2013, 11:24pm
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I Googled around for it - but I have not read it.
Do I still get my 10 points?   (If that's it)
Is there a Tolkien topic that you have wanted to look into more deeply, and write about your thoughts on it? If so, we'd like to hear from you for the next TORn Amateur Symposium- coming in November. Happy writing!
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Na Vedui
Rohan
Sep 21 2013, 12:09am
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9 - 2 - - - 3 -1
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Eye's on Guard
Lorien
Sep 21 2013, 12:41am
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"Meanwhile you will of course...
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...take the obvious precaution of seeing that this new development induces him to spend more than he can afford and to neglect his work and his mother."
(wasn't near a book so I picked one that might be guessed)
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Na Vedui
Rohan
Sep 21 2013, 1:11am
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The Screwtape Letters?
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Na Vedui
Rohan
Sep 21 2013, 1:38am
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At your service, O Balin son of Fundin!
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I must read "Screwtape" again; it's been too long. Thanks for the reminder of it.
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Werde Spinner
Rohan
Sep 21 2013, 2:05am
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"Use micropipettes to remove samples of the reaction mixture at the following times: 15, 30, 60 and 120 seconds."
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It was my organic chemistry lab book... If I had picked up my textbook instead, the sentence would have read: "Another way to predict acid-base reactivity is to remember that the product conjugate acid in an acid-base reaction must be weaker and less reactive than the starting acid and the product conjugate base must be weaker and less reactive than the starting base."
Ohhhhh, did you mean a book that I'm reading for fun?  Ain't nobody got time for dat. Still have prelab notebook work to do... 
"I had forgotten that. It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange. Elf and Dwarf in company walk in our daily fields; and folk speak with the Lady of the Wood and yet live; and the Sword comes back to war that was broken in the long ages ere the fathers of our fathers rode into the Mark! How shall a man judge what to do in such times?"
"As he ever has judged. Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house."
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Kim
Valinor
Sep 21 2013, 2:29am
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9 - Dwalin, Balin, Kili, Fili, Nori, Dori, Ori, Oin, Gloin
2 - Thorin, Gandalf
3 - Bifur, Bofur, Bombur,
1 - Bilbo
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Nunilo
Bree
Sep 21 2013, 4:01am
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"One could feel the old man's capacity for endurance."
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I'm moving very slowly through this book (this author does love his words!) Hooray for International Book Week!
(This post was edited by Nunilo on Sep 21 2013, 4:10am)
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Angharad73
Rohan
Sep 21 2013, 7:33am
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"At El Bodon, heard that Don Carlos D'Espagna, with his Spaniards, was in advance on the Salamanca road and that our cavalry were gone to the rear."
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sherlock
Gondor
Sep 21 2013, 3:33pm
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Any guesses?
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FaramirAndEowynMorningStar
Rohan
Sep 21 2013, 4:49pm
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"Father has other pawns to put on the board."//
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 ....."Loyalty, Honor,
......A Willing Heart.
I can ask no more than that."
...... ~ Thorin Oakenshield
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Rembrethil
Tol Eressea
Sep 21 2013, 8:54pm
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I didn't think of Google. It makes a lot of things so mich easier!
Sure have sone points for ingenuity.
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Brethil
Half-elven
Sep 21 2013, 9:17pm
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Hooray (*claps*) Point is points...
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Silly competitive self happy now. Thanks Rem.
Is there a Tolkien topic that you have wanted to look into more deeply, and write about your thoughts on it? If so, we'd like to hear from you for the next TORn Amateur Symposium- coming in November. Happy writing!
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Na Vedui
Rohan
Sep 22 2013, 1:27am
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.... But that's very ingenious!
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Asclepias
Rivendell
Sep 22 2013, 3:03am
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The home page for the National Federation of Paralegals Associations contains information about paralegals and legal assistants including ethical guidelines for the profession.
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cats16
Valinor
Sep 22 2013, 3:28am
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I suppose I'm not late if it's for the entire week...
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"At the farther extremity of a narrow, deep cavern in the rock, whose length appeared much extended by the perspective and the nature of the light by which it was seen, was seated the scout, holding a blazing knot of pine."
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Terazed
Bree
Sep 22 2013, 2:29pm
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Why did the sentence have to be longer then most paragraphs
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"But the conjunction of representations into a conception is not to be found in objects themselves, nor can it be, as it were, borrowed from them and taken up into the understanding by perception, but it is on the contrary an operation of the understanding itself, which is nothing more than the faculty on conjoining a priori, and of bringing the variety of given representations under the unity of apperception."
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N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
Sep 22 2013, 9:48pm
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"In an interview, Hoffman said while the corps did not wear cadet-style uniforms anymore or have inspections, they still pressed their pants and polished their shoes."
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Had it been the second-closest book to hand, the sentence would have been:
"He mentioned his own 'philosophy,' i.e. the case against illustration, in a 1961 letter to Pauline Baynes, but thought that there was 'a case for illustration (or decoration!) applied to small things' (Letters 312)."
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FantasyFan
Rohan
Sep 23 2013, 12:41am
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That's a mouthful and no mistake. Mine sounds more appetizing: "Serve in stemmed glasses with a slice of lime."
"That is one thing that Men call 'hope.' Amdir we call it, 'looking up.' But there is another which is founded deeper. Estel we call it, that is 'trust.' It is not defeated by the ways of the world, for it does not come from experience, but from our nature and First Being. If we are indeed the Eruhin, the Children of the One, then He will not suffer Himself to be deprived of His own, not by any enemy, not even by ourselves. This is the last foundation of estel, which we keep even when we contemplate the End. Of all His designs the issue must be for His children's joy."
Finrod, Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth, HoME X Morgoth's Ring
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