The Tolkien Quoting Trivia

[Marky Lazer]

And you mispelling his name offends me!

[Marky Lazer]

Come on people!

[Grimward]

This is a good one, Marky, and I have significant doubt as to my answer, based on how you worded the challenge. Here goes nothing:

'I always had the sense of recording what was already "there", somewhere, not of "inventing",' a feeling that lay behind the fictional device of the 'Red Book of Westmarch'...' (From Letter #131, and referring to The Red Book of Hergest?)

[Marky Lazer]

I simply looked for The Red Book of Westmarch, actually.

This account of the end of the Third Age [the story of the Ring] is drawn mainly from the Red Book of Westmarch.

LOTR Prologue, Note on Shire Records.

However, it'll do

[Marky Lazer]

With which I meant, your go, Grimward

[Clansman]

Grimward's busy reading Janny Wurts' latest release, Stormed Fortress. He'll come out for sunlight and food in a day or two. You'll have to be patient.

And I haven't thought of anything yet.

[Clansman]

Here's one:

How does squirrel taste?

[Marky Lazer]

Originally Posted by Marky Lazer

As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure whether that is correct. I believe CT says somewhere in The History of Middle-earth that a fair few drafts were written on pages without lines whatsoever.

On blank pages near the end of the text of this tale my father wrote ...

The Book of Lost Tales: Part 1, III The Coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor.

Anyway, squirrels... I have to look for the exact quote, bear with me!

[Marky Lazer]

They tried shooting at the squirrels, and they wasted many arrows before they managed to bring one down on the path. But when they roasted it, it proved horrible to taste, and they shot no more squirrels.

The Hobbit, Ch. 8, Flies and Spiders

[Grimward]

OK, I came out for "sunlight" (actually, it's midnight and pouring buckets here) and food, as it were. Seems like a viable answer to me, Clansman; was that what you had in mind?

Thanks for covering. OK, going back to my cave (will return, Marky, I promise!)

[pyan]

Apologies, Clansman, for anticipating your confirmation, but I'll second that..there can't be any other answer I can see.

Take it as correct please, Marky, and set us a question...

[Marky Lazer]

H'okay!

Where can't you find a real doorstep?

[Clansman]

Sorry for my absenteeism. That is precisely what I was looking for. And yes, it was too easy.

[pyan]

Yes, sorry to usurp your confirmation, but there have been times when the thread has stuck because of people not being able to confirm an answer - if there had been any ambiguity in the solution, we would have left it a bit longer.

Incidently, ordinary squirrel is delicious...must be just the Mirkwood variety that tastes bad....

[The Ace]

You can't find a real doorstep on the side door of the Lonely Mountain ?

The Hobbit, "On the Doorstep," p200.