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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The Fairy Tales of J.R.R. Tolkien
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