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Legolas meets some of the Dúnedain!
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LOTR and The Hobbit as German sayings - Part 4
"you've got a bird"
meaning: used to tell someone that they’re crazy or acting irrationally
"Do you have tomatoes on your eyes?"
meaning: telling someone that they're being blind to something obvious
"that’s at the ass of the world"
meaning: a place that is extremely remote, far away, or hard to reach
"the candy is sucked"
meaning: something is over and done with — there’s no going back
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LOTR and The Hobbit as German sayings - Part 3
"I believe I spider!"
meaning: I'm going crazy, I can't believe what I'm seeing
"Have you been drinking varnish?"
meaning: used to mock or criticize someone for doing or saying something foolish or irrational, implies that the person must be out of their mind
"to stand there as if ordered and not picked up"
meaning: standing around lost and a little helpless
"now we have the salad"
meaning: expression of annoyance in the face of an undesirable situation or an unpleasant result
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Thorin: That’s why we needed to get an expert burglar.
Bilbo: Oh really? Who did you get?
Thorin, staring: ...
Bilbo: Oh! Right, that’s me... yes.
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LOTR and The Hobbit as German sayings - Part 2
"as dumb as three meters of a dirt road"
meaning: used to describe someone as extremely unintelligent or foolish
"what one doesn't have in the head, one has in the legs"
meaning: those who do not think have to make a physical effort to deal with the consequences
"in calmness lies strength"
meaning: strength or success comes from calmness and patience rather than haste or agitation
"still waters are deep"
meaning: quiet or reserved people often have deep, complex, or hidden qualities beneath the surface
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Another update, now from Beleg's POV as he seeks Túrin among the outlaws.
Small warning: this chapter contains some violence and physical torture as Beleg is being held captive by the outlaws. So read at your own risk!
- Eruanna
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LOTR and The Hobbit as German sayings - Part 1
"lies have short legs"
meaning: lying is not worth it because the truth will eventually come out after all
"conceit is also a form of education"
meaning: overconfidence takes the place of expertise and knowledge, used mockingly to suggest that someone’s false sense of knowledge or self-importance is not genuine learning or wisdom, but rather a form of self-delusion
"what the farmer doesn't know, he doesn't eat"
meaning: someone is not open to new things and prefers what they are familiar with
"as you call into the forest, so it echoes back"
meaning: the way you treat others is the way you will be treated yourself
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thingol: making my way downtown
thingol: walking fast
salesman: sir can i interest you in an erotic painting of the renowned interspecies lovers beren erchamion, the onehanded, head of the house of beor, and luthien tinuviel, daughter of flowers and twilight, princess of doriath--
thingol: walking faster
(based on this by @serene-faerie)
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Thingol:
Also Thingol:
Thingol: doesn't want a human
Family The elves of Doriath: get a human anyway
Thingol and the human: 😍😍😍
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