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Topic: Re: Real Tolkien Trivie: Who said this?    Reply to: msg 341
Posted: April 05, 1998 at 16:02:04: by Michael Martinez

: Legolas when he, Aragorn and Gimli were following after the
: orcs after they captured Merry and Pippin?

Aragorn said it in "Flotsam and Jetsam". When Merry is telling the story of how Saruman's army marched out of Isengard, he concludes with:

"'...But there were some others that were horrible: man-high,
but with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed. Do
you know, they reminded me at once of that Southerner at
Bree; only he was not so obviously orc-like as most of
these were.'"

To which Aragorn replies:

"'I thought of him too,' said Aragorn. 'We had many of these
half-orcs to deal with at Helm's Deep. It seems plain now
that that Southerner was a spy of Saruman's; but whether he
was working with the Black Riders, or for Saruman alone, I
do not know. It is difficult with these evil folk to know
when they are in league, and when they are cheating one
another.'"

I rather thought the idiom would easily identify Aragorn, but I suppose Legolas does speak like him on occasion.

I didn't expect that finding the chapter would be quite so easy, but I was afraid to quote more of the passage for fear of making it TOO easy. :)

There is good reason why I don't make my living writing trivia quizes.


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