Townsperson

From Lotro-Wiki.com

Townsperson
Location	In towns and villages throughout The Shire
Map ref	many wander
Race	Hobbit
Type	Scenery

Townsperson
Location	The Shire; Needlehole and by the Rushock Gate.
Map ref	many wander
Race	Dwarf
Type	Scenery

Description

Townspeople talking, scenery!

Quotes

General Hobbits

• Have you heard? Mayor Whitefoot's worried about some upstart from Hobbiton who's been secretly gathering support.
• I've had an adventure. I've paddled all the way from Frogmorton!
• Some days, if you look west after the rain, you can see a rainbow rise over the hills.
• Oh I don't know what to eat first.
• Just last week I ran out of sugar! Took me half a day to find more...by then my tea was cold.
• Oh, my belly's rumbling! What's there to eat?
• You're an odd sort of person to be running around the Shire
• Be the weather fair or foul, any day is good for a picnic.
• I don't see the need for all these bounders...making people nervous is all.
• There's nothing like a nice picnic to ease the day by...or night, for that matter.
• Hello?
• You look like a trveller...if you ever find yourself in Buckland, you remind my no-good cousin Hodric he owes me money!
• Oh those waggle-jaws at Town Hole think too much of themselves and their ideas. I could use a bitter but I must get back.
• I hear there's going to be another big gathering at the party tree soon. Nothing will top old Baggin's party though.
• Yes, yes, what can I do for you?
• The Bird and Baby's just the place to quench your thirst with a nice beer.
• The Mathom House is the pride of Michel Delving all manner of curio can be found there.
• Some of the finest pipeweed and produce is grown in the fields south of Town.
• ...and he says to me "We should change the name of the Bird and Baby", can you believe that? madness!
• Have you heard that crazy girl on the commons? Ranting about pies or some such thing.
• I'll drink my fill before I head back to Town Hole. I need it with that lot.
• Mayor Whitfoot had best mind his step, or next election he'll find himself on his duff.
• Something needs to be done about the shrew around here. They've been digging up my garden again.
• Those hobbits in Little Delving think quite a bit of themselves. They look at us like we're from Waymeet.
• I'm looking at buying a tidy little hole up Little Delving way.
• Those fools in Waymeet and Needlehole want to curb the number of Dwarves allowed through the Shire. Don't they know where the metal for their ploughshares and pots come from?
• Some of the Bounders up Brockenborings way want more coin; say it's more dangerous these days. Ha! In my day being a bounder was an honour!
• Michel Delving is the greatest town in all the Four Farthings.
• I propose that we rename The Bird and Baby to something more bold like the Falcon's Nest.
• Have you heard about this pie problem everyone is talking about? I'll have to investigate further after lunch!
• It's not through threats but treats that you win the hearts of the people.
• The Shire is a beautiful and peaceful place. So it was in my father's day, and so it will be in the time of my children.

"Conversation" between 3 Hobbits in Michel Delving

• There has been a rash of rancid pies all across the Shire.
• Why has this happened, you ask? Because the privileged few have hoarded the best fillings for their own!
• What's she talking about?
• It's True! The Brandybucks, the Tooks...these so called patriarchs have been keeping the common hobbit under their heels!
• Hey, my cousins are Tooks!
• The Thain? The Master of Brandy Hall? These are hollow titles handed down from straw-man to straw-man!
• Straw-man? Is she saying the Thain's a scarecrow?
• I'm saying Mayor Whitfoot's the only one we can trust because we are the ones who empower him!
• Oh my, did we? He's a nice enough hobbit, but I'm not sure if I meant to, ummm, empower him.

Conversation between 2 Hobbits in Budgeford

• Oh, I love your dress!
• Thank you, I just got it on my trip to Tuckborough.
• Ah yes, how was your trip?
• Well some of the Tooks were quite rude. I overheard the shopkeeper call someone a "Mudfoot"!
• Why I never!
• I even over heard the tavern maid in the Floating Log call Odo the "Sausage King" of the Shire behind her hand.
• Well his sausages are second to none. Isn't that why he named that big boar "King"?

Thorin's Gate Dwarves

• When the sun comes up in the morning, and it hits the peaks just right, it looks like they're made of mithril.
• One of these days I'm going to catch me one of those aurochs and roast it over a fire.
• Not all that glimmers is gold and not all that is sullied is without worth.
• Have you been up to the old Elf ruins on the mountain? Some say that they're haunted.
• My father once made a hefty profit trading on Rath Teraig, but now the goblins block the path.
• Ah the glint off the glacial lakes is like fire in the heart of a diamond.
• I sell fine gems but not to the likes of you. Check the hall of trade for what you seek.
• I've been thinking of lacing my beard into five braids. What do you think?
• I heard one of the guards was killed in a cave-in recently.
• Where do all these Elves keep coming from? We're being invaded by outsiders!
• Next thing you know this place will be crawling with Men from the east!