Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> > So how do you say "This is the worst news that has come to Bree in my time"?
> > (The news, that is, that the Black Riders come from Mordor.)
>
> Using a completely different sentence construction. I can't think of a simple
> translation right now. The whole English construction is rather idiomatic and
> cannot be translated as is in French where it would sound like nonsense.
Well, if anyone happens to have the French _Fellowship of the Ring_ at hand,
the line is in Book 1, Chapter 10, about half-way through, where the
innkeeper has just noticed the presence of Strider (Aragorn) in the parlour.

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