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DavidDragonSlayer
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May 22 2012, 3:01am
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"I've lost my Wizard and my Way"
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Does anybody have quotes from the Hobbit (or LOTR) that occasionally seem to fit their Real Life situations? Today I was going out to see the Victoria Day Fireworks, but my GPS-smartphone ("lost my wizard") died in late-mid afternoon, and I was in a part of town I don't know well ("[lost] my way"), so I decided I should start heading home as best I could instead. Anybody ever have situations when something has happened to them, where a quote from TH/LOTR fits for them?
Another one that occured to me wsa "You shall not Pass!" to be used by a teacher toward a failing student... ;)
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DanielLB
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May 22 2012, 7:27am
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Short cuts make for long delays
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But nobody ever knows what I'm going on about...
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DavidDragonSlayer
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May 22 2012, 7:30am
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Is that referring to the fellowship going through Moria in FOTR?
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DanielLB
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May 22 2012, 7:34am
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In the chapter: "A Shortcut to Mushrooms"
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RoseCotton
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May 22 2012, 7:37am
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I think it is from FOTR but...
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... earlier than that. Someone will no doubt be able to put me straight if I'm wrong, but I think it's when the 'fellowship' consists only of Frodo, Sam and Pippin, and they're discussing a route that may (or may not) cause them to pass an inn en route that has the best ale in the (from uncertain memory) Eastfarthing. The Golden Perch was it?
Of course, it's entirely possible I'm misremembering the whole thing! 
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DanielLB
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May 22 2012, 7:40am
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grammaboodawg
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May 22 2012, 9:49am
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"'If you have walked all these days with closed ears and mind asleep, wake up now!'"
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Gandalf to Pippin as they approach the Citadel
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
TORn's Observations Lists
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dijomaja
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May 22 2012, 10:09am
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"Our list of allies grows THINNN..." (movie only)
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When my daughter and I find ourselves in situations where we're not getting a lot of help, we quote movie-Elrond as above. It has to be spoken quietly until the end and you have to arch your eyebrows on "THINNN".
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Undome
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May 22 2012, 10:41pm
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.... but a few of the most frequent ones are:
"Wheerre isss it?" (when I've misplaced something).
"Now there's an eye-opener and no mistake!" (when I'm impressed).
"Since when has [insert name] the wise abandoned reason for madness?" (when someone does someting stupid).
"It is gone forever, and now all is dark and empty."
- Frodo Baggins
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Undome
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May 22 2012, 11:17pm
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And then, of course, there's my signature......
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"It is gone forever, and now all is dark and empty."
- Frodo Baggins
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Finrod
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May 23 2012, 2:16am
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
…all eyes looked upon the ring; for he held it now aloft, and the green jewels gleamed there that the Noldor had devised in Valinor. For this ring was like to twin serpents, whose eyes were emeralds, and their heads met beneath a crown of golden flowers, that the one upheld and the other devoured; that was the badge of Finarfin and his house.The Silmarillion, pp 150-151 while Felagund laughs beneath the treesin Valinor and comes no more
to this grey world of tears and war.The Lays of Beleriand, p 311
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DanielLB
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May 23 2012, 7:20am
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How do you manage to fit that into a conversation?!
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Although...
I always change it to:
Do not meddle in the affairs of women, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
It is a joke of course - no offense intended! 
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FantasyFan
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May 23 2012, 11:10am
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with catsup."
It fits surprisingly well into many conversations, whenever a Dragon is nearby (traffic policeman, boss, rude kid at the store, etc.
"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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Longbottom Leaf
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May 24 2012, 1:10am
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"None of us should wander alone...
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you least of all." While camping I bumped into my friend in the woods while we were on a firewood expedition and used this line. I immediately followed with "I ask only for the strength to defend my people!" while hurling my lumber to the ground. Needless to say we were both laughing hysterically as a result of perfect timing and surroundings. And of course my favorite,although I change it to reflect myself instead of someone else, "My love of the halflings leaf has clearly slowed my mind."
The best weed in the southfarthing!
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tennie75
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May 24 2012, 2:58am
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"Taters, precious" when Mr Tennie asks what's for dinner.
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Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Ruxendil_Thoorg
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May 24 2012, 3:20am
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Sometimes before a meal: "The table is set..." or after making plans for something: "The plans are set..."
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Followed by "...the pieces are moving...."
Sometimes when my 5 year old asks what food is on her plate, or when she asks what are fries made from, i end up saying "Po-tay-toes" Sean Astin style.
A bag is like a hole that you can carry with you.
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May 24 2012, 4:13am
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reminds me of when my younger sister was about 2 years old. Fries were her favorite food, but she was only familiar with the usual thin fast food variety. One day we all went out to a restaurant which served wedge fries as their only option. My sister took one bite and then announced in horrified voice that could be heard all over the restaurant, "Eeeewww! These french fries have potato in them!"
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"Of all faces those of our familiares are the ones both most difficult to play fantastic tricks with, and most difficult really to see with fresh attention. They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter, or their colour, or their shape, and we laid hands on them, and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else [make something new], may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. The gems all turn into flowers or flames, and you will be warned that all you had (or knew) was dangerous and potent, not really effectively chained, free and wild; no more yours than they were you." -On Fairy Stories
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Silverlode
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May 25 2012, 2:31am
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but mostly I remember the laughter at our table. That was many years ago now but we still laugh at the memory. 
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"Of all faces those of our familiares are the ones both most difficult to play fantastic tricks with, and most difficult really to see with fresh attention. They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter, or their colour, or their shape, and we laid hands on them, and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else [make something new], may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. The gems all turn into flowers or flames, and you will be warned that all you had (or knew) was dangerous and potent, not really effectively chained, free and wild; no more yours than they were you." -On Fairy Stories
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 25 2012, 3:49am
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We say that in my family all the time :-D //
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 25 2012, 3:56am
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I find myself saying that whenever we have eggs for breakfast. And when I'm looking though my pockets for something, I misquote Gollum: "What have I got in my pocketses?" I've been doing that almost unconsciously for decades.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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DavidDragonSlayer
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May 25 2012, 4:01am
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You say that others laugh at what your younger sister said. Does she find it funny now?
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Finrod
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May 25 2012, 4:40am
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Meddling in the affairs of wizards
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It’s easy to fit it into conversations where there are wizards around (meaning god-level programmers).
…all eyes looked upon the ring; for he held it now aloft, and the green jewels gleamed there that the Noldor had devised in Valinor. For this ring was like to twin serpents, whose eyes were emeralds, and their heads met beneath a crown of golden flowers, that the one upheld and the other devoured; that was the badge of Finarfin and his house.The Silmarillion, pp 150-151 while Felagund laughs beneath the treesin Valinor and comes no more
to this grey world of tears and war.The Lays of Beleriand, p 311
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Silverlode
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May 25 2012, 4:46am
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She's pretty good humored about stuff like that. 
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"Of all faces those of our familiares are the ones both most difficult to play fantastic tricks with, and most difficult really to see with fresh attention. They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter, or their colour, or their shape, and we laid hands on them, and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else [make something new], may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. The gems all turn into flowers or flames, and you will be warned that all you had (or knew) was dangerous and potent, not really effectively chained, free and wild; no more yours than they were you." -On Fairy Stories
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hahahaha :-D
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