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Post by bacon on Jan 3, 2006 20:26:30 GMT -5
In this game, go through the lines of dialogue in the LOTR Books, from FOTR to ROTK. Hobbit Villagers: It will have to be paid for. It isn't natural, and trouble will come of it!
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 3, 2006 20:56:13 GMT -5
Bilbo: You had better come and live here, Frodo my lad, and then we can celebrateour birthday-parties comfortably together
This could take a while #9#
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Post by bacon on Jan 3, 2006 20:58:12 GMT -5
A long while. But, fun to. Ham Gamgee, a.k.a. the Gaffer: A very nice well-spoken gentlehobbit is Mr. Bilbo, as I've always said.
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 3, 2006 21:01:01 GMT -5
Old Noakes: But what about this Frodo that lives with him? Baggins is his name, but he's more than half a Brandybuck, they say. It beats me why any Baggins of Hobbiton should go looking for a wife away there in Buckland, where folks are so queer.
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Post by bacon on Jan 3, 2006 21:02:01 GMT -5
Daddy Twofoot: And no wonder they're queer if they live on the wrong side of the brandywine River, and right agin the Old Forest. That's a dark bad place, if half the tales be true.
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 3, 2006 21:07:46 GMT -5
Gaffer: You're right Dad! Not that the Brandybucks of Buckland live in the Old Forest; but they're a queer breed, seemingly. They fool about with boats on that big river - and that isn't natural. Small wonder that trouble came of it, I say. But be that as it may, Mr. Frodo is as nice a young hobbit as you could wish to meet. Very much like Mr. Bilbo, and in more than looks. After all his father was a Baggins. A decent respectible hobbit was Mr. Drogo Baggins; there was never much to tell of him, till he was drownded
Well this will up my post count #9# #3#
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Post by bacon on Jan 3, 2006 21:10:23 GMT -5
Yup. I got a short line. Several Voices: Drownded?
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 3, 2006 21:23:49 GMT -5
#11# Hey! how come I get all the long passages #19#
Gaffer (again) : Well so they say. You see: Mr. Drogo, he married poor Miss Primula Brandybuck. She was our Mr. Bilbo's first cousin on the mother's side (her mother being the youngest of the Old Took's daughters); and Mr. Drogo was his second cousin. So Mr. Frodo is his first and second cousin, once removed either way, as the saying is, if you follow me. And Mr. Drogo was staying at Brandy Hall with his father-in-law, old Master Gorbadoc, as he often did after his marriage (him being partial to his vittles, and old Gorbadoc keeping a mighty generous table); and he went out boating on the Brandywine River; and he and his wife were drownded, and poor Mr. Frodo only a child and all.
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Post by bacon on Jan 3, 2006 21:25:36 GMT -5
LOL
Old Noakes: I've heard they went on the water after dinner in the moonlight and it was Drogo's weight as sunk the boat.
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 3, 2006 21:29:15 GMT -5
Ted Sandyman: And I heard she pushed him in, and he pulled her in after him
Who's got the long passage Now #5# #54# #13#
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Post by bacon on Jan 3, 2006 21:33:18 GMT -5
Golly gee, I've been defeated. #49#
The Gaffer: You shouldn't listen to all you hear, Sandyman. There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking further for the cause of trouble. Anyway: there was this Mr. Frodo left an orphan and stranded, as you might say, among those queer Bucklanders, being brought up anyhow in Brandy Hall. A regular warren, by all accounts. Old Master Gorbadoc never had fewer than a couple of hundred relations in the place. Mr. Bilbo never did a kinder deed than when he brought the lad back to live among decent folk. But I reckon it was a nasty shock for those Sackville-Bagginses. They thought they were going to get Bag End, that time when he went off and was thought to be dead. And then he comes back and orders them off; and goes on living and living, and never looking a day older, bless him! And suddenly he produces an heir, and has all the papers made out proper. The Sackville-Bagginses won't see the inside of Bag End now, or it is to be hoped not.
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 3, 2006 21:51:49 GMT -5
A visitor on business from Michel Delving: There's a tidy bit of money tucked away up there, I here tell. All the top of your hill is full of tunnels packed with chests of gold and silver and jools, by what I've heard
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Post by DDL on Jan 4, 2006 11:58:29 GMT -5
The Gaffer:"Then you've heard more than I can speak to. I know nothing about jools. Mr. Bilbo is free with his money, and there seems no lack of it; but I know of no tunnel-making. I saw Mr. Bilbo when he came back, a matter of sixty years ago, when I was a lad. I'd not long come prentice to old Holman (him being my dad's cousin), but he had me up at Bag End helping him to keep folks from trampling and trapessing all over the garden while the sale was on. And in the middle of it all Mr. Bilbo comes up the Hill with a pony and some mighty big bags and a couple of chests. I don't doubt they were mostly full of treasure he had picked up in foreign parts, where there be mountains of gold, they say; but there wasn't enough to fill tunnels. But my lad Sam will know more about that. He's in and out of Bag End. Crazy about stories of the old days he is, and he listens to all Mr. Bilbo's tales. Mr. Bilbo has learned him his letters — meaning no harm, mark you, and I hope no harm will come of it." "'Elves and Dragons! I says to him. 'Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you,' I says to him. And I might say it to others." OOC: Dang..that was long..
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Post by bacon on Jan 4, 2006 12:00:56 GMT -5
Sandyman: Ah, but he has likely enough been adding to what he brought at first. He's often away from home. And look at the outlandish folk that visit him: dwarves coming at night, and that old conjuror, Gandalf, and all. You can say what you like, Gaffer, but Bag End's a queer place, and its folk are queerer.
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Post by DDL on Jan 4, 2006 12:12:13 GMT -5
The Gaffer:"And you can say what you like, about what you know no more of than you do of boating, Mr. Sandyman. If that's being queer, then we could do with a bit more queerness in these parts. There's some not far away that wouldn't offer a pint of beer to a friend, if they lived in a hole with golden walls. But they do things proper at Bag End. Our Sam says that everyone's going to be invited to the party, and there's going to be presents, mark you, presents for all — this very month as is."
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 5, 2006 12:08:12 GMT -5
Hobbit Children: G for Grand!
Nice and short #9#
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Post by DDL on Jan 5, 2006 14:46:11 GMT -5
Gandalf:
‘Run away now! You will get plenty when the time comes.’
‘How bright your garden looks!’
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Post by bacon on Jan 5, 2006 19:33:10 GMT -5
Bilbo: Yes, I am very fond indeed of it, and of all the dear old Shire, but I think I need a holiday.
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Post by DDL on Jan 5, 2006 20:00:20 GMT -5
Gandalf: ‘You mean to go on with your plan then?’
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 5, 2006 20:42:52 GMT -5
Bilbo:I do. I made up my mind months ago, and I haven't changed it
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Post by bacon on Jan 5, 2006 20:43:23 GMT -5
Edit: blah
Gandalf: Very well. It is of no good saying any more. Stick to your plan - your whole plan, mind - and I hope it will turn out for the best, for you, and for all of us.
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 5, 2006 21:12:54 GMT -5
Bilbo:I hope so. Anyway I mean to enjoy myself on Thursday, and have my little joke
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Post by bacon on Jan 5, 2006 21:36:46 GMT -5
Gandalf: Who will laugh, i wonder?
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 5, 2006 21:47:04 GMT -5
Bilbo: We shall see
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Post by bacon on Jan 5, 2006 21:48:19 GMT -5
Bilbo: That is the signal for supper!
Hope I didn't skip anything...
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 6, 2006 18:46:13 GMT -5
Bilbo: My dear people!
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Post by bacon on Jan 6, 2006 18:47:19 GMT -5
Hobbits: Hear! Hear! Hear!
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 6, 2006 19:00:53 GMT -5
Bilbo: My dear Bagginses and Boffins, and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots.
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Post by bacon on Jan 6, 2006 19:02:17 GMT -5
Mr. Proudfoot: Proudfeet!
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Post by ladyrwhen on Jan 6, 2006 19:13:47 GMT -5
Bilbo: Proudfoots. Also my good Sackville-Bagginses that I welcome back at last to Bag End. Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!
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