You find out in the third book that Bill mad it safely back to Rivendale
“mellon” means friend in Elvish, but it also means “love”.
When I was a Freshman in High School I had this deep crush on this girl Sarah. And I would scribble on my notebook “Sarah Mellon Lai” (if memory serves) which is elvish and translates as “I love you Sarah”.
Ahh what dorky fool I was at that age … (still am)
“There are older and fouler things…”
Used that a few times while in the Central Park lanterns.
Yeah I know. It’s just like “we’re all going to Mordor. You can’t come. Goodbye.” Poor guy is left out of everything. There should be (and probably is) a short story of Bill’s journey back to Rivendell.
Frodo is thinking “Oh crap. I should have bought some theft/damage insurance for this stupid Mithril shirt.”
“Don’t be too eager to deal out death and judgment.”
I love that line.
It’s probably not a bad thing to be left out of the trip through Moria.
May you never grow out of dorky fool. I know I never will.
poor Gimli, listen closely he is reciting a prayer in dwarfish
Took the dwarfs 200 years to dig this out. What I did in there I did in a day.
Oh great, a cave troll.
Isn’t Balin in ‘The Hobbit’?
okay, Dr Marcus
yup. He’s one of the dwarves on Bilbo’s adventure.
I love the contrast between the Dwarvish lettering and the Elvish.
The dusty book. Thinking of Holy Grail…Arghhhhhhhh!!
That cave troll is hard to kill.
“They have a cave-troll”
Hehe
Something scarier than the orcs?
After hearing how the makeup affected John Rhys-Davies, I feel worse for him.