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Post by Elerína on Feb 10, 2007 5:43:06 GMT -5
it makes more sense with pippin's sentence added to it. I looked at my idea but there is no mention of any delay. at least not the word. I think we have a couple of hours left. if you haven't posted about an hour before the deadline I'll do it. good work elarith.
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Post by Elerína on Feb 10, 2007 9:01:05 GMT -5
alright, I posted
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Post by elarith on Feb 10, 2007 10:49:19 GMT -5
Good work Ele - I've been tidying the house all morning and only just got back on.
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Post by elarith on Feb 10, 2007 10:54:57 GMT -5
Just saw Elendil posted in the thread - we were right and we get a chance to steal Fangy's. They had the answer as to do with the march of the Ents upon Isengard. I thought it was the drums in K-D as the orcs close in on the Fellowship. I'll see if I can find a quote - we have about 10 hours to get the answer up.
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Post by elarith on Feb 10, 2007 11:07:52 GMT -5
There's quite a few mentions of the drums in 'The Bridge of Khazad-dum', either saying 'doom' or 'boom' or both. Only 2 had any mention of rolling though, and of those only this one made it clear that it was the drums making this noise (though the other quote aludes to it):
"The walls seemed to be trembling. Every now and again the drum-beats throbbed and rolled: doom, doom.
Suddenly at the top of the stair there was a stab of white light. Then there was a dull rumble and a heavy thud. The drum-beats broke out wildly: doom-boom, doom-boom, and then stopped." FotR, The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
Another option is:
"Gandalf had hardly spoken these words, when there came a great noise: a rolling Boom that seemed to come from depths far below, and to tremble in the stone at their feet. They sprang towards the door in alarm. Doom, doom it rolled again, as if huge hands were turning the very caverns of Moria into a vast drum."
Not sure which seems best. The first makes clear it's drums making the noise, the other is clearer on the 'rolling' part. *shrugs*
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Post by kingoduckingham on Feb 10, 2007 11:15:44 GMT -5
The second option is better, I think. True, it doesn't say EXACTLY that it was the drums, but it does have a drum metaphor, and I think that ought to be good enough.
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Post by helekwen on Feb 10, 2007 11:33:17 GMT -5
Mm, I might actually go for the first- 'the drum-beats throbbed and rolled: doom, doom' does make both the drum part and the rolling part clear, I think.
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Post by kingoduckingham on Feb 10, 2007 11:36:30 GMT -5
Since they are saying Doom in both places, perhaps it doesn't matter?
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Post by elarith on Feb 10, 2007 11:49:17 GMT -5
'Doom' and 'boom', Ducky. We can probably get away with it using either quote really, I don't think Elendil will be uber-picky over it since they're saying pretty similar things.
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Post by Elerína on Feb 10, 2007 12:38:10 GMT -5
I would go for the first but maybe we can use both quotes. both times the answer is doom and boom. the second actually has the word drum in it, the first one just drum beats. so if we only post one, I would chose the second one.
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Post by kingoduckingham on Feb 10, 2007 12:44:14 GMT -5
LOL, can I post it? I feel like Hank is particularly inspiring me today. And I changed my mind, reviewing the question I like the first quote better.
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Post by elarith on Feb 10, 2007 13:02:15 GMT -5
Fine by me. In the quotes, doom and boom should be in italic - just the italic option doesn't appear in this quick post box and I'm too lazy to use the other one. XD
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Post by kingoduckingham on Feb 10, 2007 13:11:29 GMT -5
Gotcha. Do you want me to put both quotes in?
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Post by kingoduckingham on Feb 10, 2007 13:30:04 GMT -5
ROFL I hope there's no such thing as overdoing it...and I only put the first quote in because I realized the reason he rejected Fangy's answer was because theirs was a metaphor, and we have a simile situation in the second quote too...besides, the first should be enough to support it.
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Post by enneleyn on Feb 10, 2007 13:40:35 GMT -5
Nope, Ducky, I don't think you overdid it; better to be a little too precise...
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