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A humourous fortune lembas

Postby Stanley Anderson » August 15th, 2006, 7:39 pm

Prompted by the "A humourous fortune cookie" thread in the Caffe forum, I thought it might be interesting to have a similar thread here except it is the elves' lembas that have fortunes inside them and the fortunes would be directed at the various characters in LotR. Here are a couple examples:

When Boromir eats his lembas, he discovers a fortune that reads "You will take many of your oponents' points to heart"

Frodo, not being familiar with Spinal Tap's famous line "Ours go to eleven", wonders at the mysterious fortune in his lembas that reads "yours go to nine" and mistakenly thinks it refers to the members of the fellowship of the ring.

Well, any others?

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…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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re: A humourous fortune lembas

Postby A#minor » August 16th, 2006, 12:48 am

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Postby cheeky reep » August 17th, 2006, 7:38 pm

:idea: what a great idea!

treebeard: you shall be hasty tomorrow.
denethor: beware of crystal balls.
sam: you shall be blessed with many children.
aragorn: not all gold glitters, but an occasional polish is good.
Do you mean to say that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me!
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Postby A#minor » August 17th, 2006, 9:58 pm

"My brain and this world don't fit each other, and there's an end of it!" - G.K. Chesterton
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Postby The Pfifltrigg » December 1st, 2006, 2:59 am

For the Mayor of Lake-Town:
Tomorrow is not a good day for an airshow.

For Miss R. Cotton: Fair blossoms from far-off lands bloom for you around the bend.

For Lotho Pimple: Haste not after another's wealth, lest you find yourself in a Bad End.

For Tom, Bert, and Bill---
Bert's says: Early to bed and late to rise makes you healthy, wealthy, and depetrified. Look it up.
Tom's says: Poor Richard tastes better with mustard on his legs.
Bill's says, um...
I don't think we'll ever know what Bill's said. Probably something like Don't eat the paper.
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Freedom lost and then regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never in danger. — Cicero
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Postby A#minor » December 1st, 2006, 3:08 am

:grin: Those are good.

Witch-King of Angmar's fortune: If you're cocky, there's something you don't know. Pride cometh before the fall. Your lucky number is 9.

Frodo's fortune: Showing mercy to your enemies may come back to bite you.
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Postby Lirenel » December 1st, 2006, 10:23 pm

The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? - Psalm 27:1

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Postby Stanley Anderson » December 1st, 2006, 11:22 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby cheeky reep » December 5th, 2006, 5:58 pm

Do you mean to say that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me!
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Postby A#minor » December 5th, 2006, 9:45 pm

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Postby The Pfifltrigg » December 7th, 2006, 3:25 am

False ideas may be refuted indeed by argument, but by true ideas alone are they expelled. — Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Cardinal Newman
Freedom lost and then regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never in danger. — Cicero
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Postby Erekose » December 7th, 2006, 10:09 pm

Call yourself a dog???? I've seen better hair on a lavatory brush!!!
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Postby A#minor » December 8th, 2006, 3:16 am

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Postby The Pfifltrigg » December 8th, 2006, 4:26 pm

Another for Tom Bombadil: Knock on wood for your neighbor's luck.
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Postby contra mundum » December 19th, 2006, 9:51 pm

Hmm . . . all of you are really good at this game.

For Gollum: "Beware of biting off more than you can chew, preciousss. It will lead to your downfall."
“Doubt no longer, then, when you see death mocked and scorned by those who believe in Christ, that by Christ death was destroyed . . .”

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