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Re: LOTR quote game

Postby Leslie » April 3rd, 2010, 4:07 pm

No, but you're not too far off -- it's about Lothlorien, but not spoken by Boromir, and not in Lothlorien.
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Re: LOTR quote game

Postby Matthew Whaley » April 3rd, 2010, 5:56 pm

Spoken by Faramir to Frodo when Frodo tells him where he had been.

"But unless your master has come to new wisdom, then with all his servants you will be in great peril."
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Re: LOTR quote game

Postby Dan65802 » April 5th, 2010, 1:44 pm

It's funny. You're both close and far on your guess, Jo.
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Re: LOTR quote game

Postby Dan65802 » April 14th, 2010, 4:23 pm

"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King
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Re: LOTR quote game

Postby Dan65802 » April 26th, 2010, 2:35 pm

Hint: Aragorn and a fellow combatant are the runners in the midst of a battle.

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Re: LOTR quote game

Postby jo » June 7th, 2010, 12:36 am

Think you have stumped us there :) another one?
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Re: LOTR quote game

Postby galion » June 7th, 2010, 6:33 am

OK, to put us out of our misery: it's from Two Towers, Ch. VII "Helm's Deep" - the gents in question are A. and Eomer.

Pause while I have breakfast and think of another one.
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Re: LOTR quote game

Postby galion » June 7th, 2010, 7:37 am

Well, in order to get this thread moving again, here's an easy one:

'Then be comforted."
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