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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
October 29, 2008 15:23
Subject:
PATCH: soure quotes corrected and attributed
Message ID:
25342.1225319019@chthon
As those who read through to the end of my previous message shall have
inferred, I updated all the Tolkien quotes in the source files.  

I corrected them (some were misworded), attributed them as to who said
them and where, and made them "look all of one cloth"; that is, unified
the quoting style to accord with the books' and made them similar in
indentation and attribution style.

NB: poetry is indented, and quote marks fall one column earlier 
    than the quoted text.

*And* I even passed it by Larry for approval. :-)

Does my format below suffice, or is a recursive unidiff preferred?

--tom


av.c:
/*
 * '...for the Entwives desired order, and plenty, and peace (by which they
 *  meant that things should remain where they had set them).' --Treebeard
 *
 *      [p.476 of _The Lord of the Rings_, III/iv: "Treebeard"]
 */

deb.c:
/*
 * 'Didst thou think that the eyes of the White Tower were blind?  Nay,
 *  I have seen more than thou knowest, Grey Fool.'  --Denethor
 *
 *      [p.853 of _The Lord of the Rings_, V/vii: "The Pyre of Denethor"]
 */

doio.c:
/*
 *  Far below them they saw the white waters pour into a foaming bowl, and
 *  then swirl darkly about a deep oval basin in the rocks, until they found
 *  their way out again through a narrow gate, and flowed away, fuming and
 *  chattering, into calmer and more level reaches.
 *
 *      [p.684 of _The Lord of the Rings_, IV/vi: "The Forbidden Pool"]
 */

doop.c:
/*
 *  'So that was the job I felt I had to do when I started,' thought Sam.
 *
 *      [p.934 of _The Lord of the Rings_, VI/iii: "Mount Doom"]
 */

dump.c:
/*
 *  'You have talked long in your sleep, Frodo,' said Gandalf gently, 'and
 *   it has not been hard for me to read your mind and memory.'
 *
 *      [p.220 of _The Lord of the Rings_, II/i: "Many Meetings"]
 */

ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs:
/*
 *  And Gandalf said: 'Many folk like to know beforehand what is to
 *  be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the
 *  feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of
 *  praise louder.'
 *
 *      [p.970 of _The Lord of the Rings_, VI/v: "The Steward and the King"]
 */

globals.c:
/*
 * 'For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World:
 *  Elves, Dwarves, and Men.' --Elrond
 *
 *      [p.275 of _The Lord of the Rings_, II/iii: "The Ring Goes South"]
 */

gv.c:
/*
 *   'Mercy!' cried Gandalf.  'If the giving of information is to be the cure
 * of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering
 * you.  What more do you want to know?'
 *   'The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole
 * history of Middle-earth and Over-heaven and of the Sundering Seas,'
 * laughed Pippin.
 *
 *      [p.599 of _The Lord of the Rings_, III/xi: "The Palantír"]
 */

hv.c:
/*
 *      I sit beside the fire and think
 *          of all that I have seen.
 *                         --Bilbo
 *
 *      [p.278 of _The Lord of the Rings_, II/iii: "The Ring Goes South"]
 */

locale.c:
/*
 *      A Elbereth Gilthoniel,
 *      silivren penna míriel
 *      o menel aglar elenath!
 *      Na-chaered palan-díriel
 *      o galadhremmin ennorath,
 *      Fanuilos, le linnathon
 *      nef aear, si nef aearon!
 *
 *      [p.238 of _The Lord of the Rings_, II/i: "Many Meetings"]
 */

malloc.c:
/*
 * 'The Chamber of Records,' said Gimli. 'I guess that is where we now stand.'
 *
 *      [p.321 of _The Lord of the Rings_, II/v: "The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm"]
 */

mathoms.c:
/*
 *  Anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to
 *  throw away, they called a mathom.  Their dwellings were apt to become
 *  rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from
 *  hand to hand were of that sort.
 *
 *      [p.5 of _The Lord of the Rings_: "Prologue"]
 */

mg.c:
/*
 *  Sam sat on the ground and put his head in his hands.  'I wish I had never
 *  come here, and I don't want to see no more magic,' he said, and fell silent.
 *
 *      [p.363 of _The Lord of the Rings_, II/vii: "The Mirror of Galadriel"]
 */

miniperlmain.c:
/*
 *      The Road goes ever on and on
 *          Down from the door where it began.
 *
 *      [Bilbo on p.35 of _The Lord of the Rings_, I/i: "A Long-Expected Party"]
 *      [Frodo on p.73 of _The Lord of the Rings_, I/iii: "Three Is Company"]
 */

mro.c:
/*
 * 'Which order shall we go in?' said Frodo.  'Eldest first, or quickest first?
 *  You'll be last either way, Master Peregrin.'
 *
 *      [p.101 of _The Lord of the Rings_, I/iii: "A Conspiracy Unmasked"]
 */

numeric.c:
/*
 * "That only makes eleven (plus one mislaid) and not fourteen,
 *  unless wizards count differently to other people."  --Beorn
 *
 *      [p.115 of _The Hobbit_: "Queer Lodgings"]
 */

op.c:
/*
 * 'You see: Mr. Drogo, he married poor Miss Primula Brandybuck.  She was
 *  our Mr. Bilbo's first cousin on the mother's side (her mother being the
 *  youngest of the Old Took's daughters); and Mr. Drogo was his second
 *  cousin.  So Mr. Frodo is his first *and* second cousin, once removed
 *  either way, as the saying is, if you follow me.'  --the Gaffer
 *
 *      [p.23 of _The Lord of the Rings_, I/i: "A Long-Expected Party"]
 */

opmini.c:
/*
 * 'You see: Mr. Drogo, he married poor Miss Primula Brandybuck.  She was
 *  our Mr. Bilbo's first cousin on the mother's side (her mother being the
 *  youngest of the Old Took's daughters); and Mr. Drogo was his second
 *  cousin.  So Mr. Frodo is his first *and* second cousin, once removed
 *  either way, as the saying is, if you follow me.'  --the Gaffer
 *
 *      [p.23 of _The Lord of the Rings_, I/i: "A Long-Expected Party"]
 */

pad.c:
/*
 *  'Anyway: there was this Mr. Frodo left an orphan and stranded, as you
 *   might say, among those queer Bucklanders, being brought up anyhow in
 *   Brandy Hall.  A regular warren, by all accounts.  Old Master Gorbadoc
 *   never had fewer than a couple of hundred relations in the place.
 *   Mr. Bilbo never did a kinder deed than when he brought the lad back
 *   to live among decent folk.'                --the Gaffer
 *
 *      [p.23 of _The Lord of the Rings_, I/i: "A Long-Expected Party"]
 */

perl.c:
/*
 *      A ship then new they built for him
 *      of mithril and of elven glass
 *              --from Bilbo's song of Eärendil
 *
 *      [p.236 of _The Lord of the Rings_, II/i: "Many Meetings"]
 */

perlapi.c:
/*
 * Up to the threshold of the door there mounted a flight of twenty-seven
 * broad stairs, hewn by some unknown art of the same black stone.  This
 * was the only entrance to the tower; ...
 *
 *      [p.577 of _The Lord of the Rings_, III/x: "The Voice of Saruman"]
 */

perlio.c:
/*
 * Hour after hour for nearly three weary days he had jogged up and down,
 * over passes, and through long dales, and across many streams.
 *
 *      [pp.791-792 of _The Lord of the Rings_, V/iii: "The Muster of Rohan"]
 */

perlmain.c:
/*
 *      The Road goes ever on and on
 *          Down from the door where it began.
 *
 *      [Bilbo on p.35 of _The Lord of the Rings_, I/i: "A Long-Expected Party"]
 *      [Frodo on p.73 of _The Lord of the Rings_, I/iii: "Three Is Company"]
 */

perly.y:
/*
 * 'I see,' laughed Strider.  'I look foul and feel fair.  Is that it?
 *  All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.'
 *
 *      [p.171 of _The Lord of the Rings_, I/x: "Strider"]
 */

pp.c:
/*
 * 'It's a big house this, and very peculiar.  Always a bit more to discover,
 *  and no knowing what you'll find round a corner.  And Elves, sir!' --Samwise
 *
 *      [p.225 of _The Lord of the Rings_, II/i: "Many Meetings"]
 */

pp_ctl.c:
/*
 *      Now far ahead the Road has gone,
 *          And I must follow, if I can,
 *      Pursuing it with eager feet,
 *          Until it joins some larger way
 *      Where many paths and errands meet.
 *          And whither then?  I cannot say.
 *
 *      [Bilbo on p.35 of _The Lord of the Rings_, I/i: "A Long-Expected Party"]
 */

pp_hot.c:
/*
 * Then he heard Merry change the note, and up went the Horn-cry of Buckland,
 * shaking the air.
 *
 *            Awake!  Awake!  Fear, Fire, Foes!  Awake!
 *                     Fire, Foes!  Awake!
 *
 *      [p.1007 of _The Lord of the Rings_, VI/viii: "The Scouring of the Shire"]
 */

pp_pack.c:
/*
 * He still hopefully carried some of his gear in his pack: a small tinder-box,
 * two small shallow pans, the smaller fitting into the larger; inside them a
 * wooden spoon, a short two-pronged fork and some skewers were stowed; and
 * hidden at the bottom of the pack in a flat wooden box a dwindling treasure,
 * some salt.
 *
 *      [p.653 of _The Lord of the Rings_, IV/iv: "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit"]
 */

pp_sort.c:
/*
 *   ...they shuffled back towards the rear of the line. 'No, not at the
 *   rear!' the slave-driver shouted.  'Three files up. And stay there...
 *
 *      [p.931 of _The Lord of the Rings_, VI/ii: "The Land of Shadow"]
 */

pp_sys.c:
/*
 * But only a short way ahead its floor and the walls on either side were
 * cloven by a great fissure, out of which the red glare came, now leaping
 * up, now dying down into darkness; and all the while far below there was
 * a rumour and a trouble as of great engines throbbing and labouring.
 *
 *      [p.945 of _The Lord of the Rings_, VI/iii: "Mount Doom"]
 */

regcomp.c:
/*
 * 'A fair jaw-cracker dwarf-language must be.'  --Samwise Gamgee
 *
 *      [p.285 of _The Lord of the Rings_, II/iii: "The Ring Goes South"]
 */

regexec.c:
/*
 * "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them..."
 */

reentr.c
/*
 * ' "Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can
 *   wield the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say *we*!" '
 *                                                  --Gandalf
 *
 *      [p.260 of _The Lord of the Rings_, II/ii: "The Council of Elrond"]
 */

run.c:
/*
 * 'Away now, Shadowfax!  Run, greatheart, run as you have never run before!
 *  Now we are come to the lands where you were foaled, and every stone you
 *  know.  Run now!  Hope is in speed!'  --Gandalf
 *
 *      [p.600 of _The Lord of the Rings_, III/xi: "The Palantír"]
 */

scope.c:
/*
 * For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven
 * levels...
 *
 *      [p.751 of _The Lord of the Rings_, V/i: "Minas Tirith"]
 */

sv.c:
/*
 * 'I wonder what the Entish is for "yes" and "no",' he thought.
 *                                                  --Pippin
 *
 *      [p.480 of _The Lord of the Rings_, III/iv: "Treebeard"]
 */

taint.c:
/*
 * '...we will have peace, when you and all your works have perished--and
 *  the works of your dark master to whom you would deliver us.  You are a
 *  liar, Saruman, and a corrupter of men's hearts.'  --Théoden
 *
 *      [p.580 of _The Lord of the Rings_, III/x: "The Voice of Saruman"]
 */

toke.c:
/*
 *  'It all comes from here, the stench and the peril.'  --Frodo
 *
 *      [p.719 of _The Lord of the Rings_, IV/ix: "Shelob's Lair"]
 */

universal.c:
/*
 * '"The roots of those mountains must be roots indeed; there must be
 *   great secrets buried there which have not been discovered since the
 *   beginning."' --Gandalf citing Gollum
 *
 *      [p.54 of _The Lord of the Rings_, I/ii: "The Shadow of the Past"]
 */

utf8.c:
/*
 * 'What a fix!' said Sam. 'That's the one place in all the lands we've ever
 *  heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place
 *  we're trying to get to!  And that's just where we can't get, nohow.'
 *
 *      [p.603 of _The Lord of the Rings_, IV/I: "The Taming of Sméagol"]
 *
 * 'Well do I understand your speech,' he answered in the same language;
 * 'yet few strangers do so.  Why then do you not speak in the Common Tongue,
 *  as is the custom in the West, if you wish to be answered?'
 *                      --Gandalf, addressing Théoden's door wardens
 *
 *      [p.508 of _The Lord of the Rings_, III/vi: "The King of the Golden Hall"]
 *
 * ...the travellers perceived that the floor was paved with stones of many
 * hues; branching runes and strange devices intertwined beneath their feet.
 *
 *      [p.512 of _The Lord of the Rings_, III/vi: "The King of the Golden Hall"]
 */

util.c:
/*
 * 'Very useful, no doubt, that was to Saruman; yet it seems that he was
 *  not content.'  --Gandalf to Pippin
 *
 *      [p.598 of _The Lord of the Rings_, III/xi: "The Palantír"]
 */

vms/vms.c:
/*
 *   Yet small as was their hunted band
 *   still fell and fearless was each hand,
 *   and strong deeds they wrought yet oft,
 *   and loved the woods, whose ways more soft
 *   them seemed than thralls of that black throne
 *   to live and languish in halls of stone.
 *        "The Lay of Leithian", Canto II, lines 135-40
 *
 *      [p.162 of _The Lays of Beleriand_]
 */

xsutils.c:
/*
 * 'Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess
 *  ourselves.' --Gandalf
 *
 *      [p.597 of _The Lord of the Rings_, III/xi: "The Palantír"]
 */

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