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Message:: [QUOTE="Tom Maringer, post: 179399, member: 7033"]Contest winner: Hepcat57! "Does it guess easy? It must  have a competition with us, my preciouss! If precious asks, and it doesn't answer, we  eats it, my preciousss.  If  it asks us,  and we doesn't answer, then we does what it wants, eh? We shows it the way out, yes!" Okay... I guess that was pretty easy. While I was out for lunch there were five answers, three of which were correct. Moen1305, Drusus, and Hepcat57 all got the correct answer and named all five ponies:   Sharp-ears, Wise-nose, Swish-tail, Bumpkin, and White-socks. But of the three, hepcat57 answered soonest and so wins the game! The reference is from Chapter 8 of FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. Tom Bombadil gives the ponies their names, which they answer to thereafter for the rest of their lives.  Tom is calling them and shouts: "Hey! now! Come hoy now! Whither do you wander? Up, down, near or far, here, there or yonder? Sharp-ears, Wise-nose, Swish-tail and Bumpkin, White-socks my little lad, and old Fatty Lumpkin!" ... but of course Fatty Lumpkin is Tom's pony, and did not travel further with them and so was not stolen from the inn at Bree. Hmm... I see I'll have to work on it to come up with something suficently obscure to challenge this crowd. Congratulations Hepcat! I'll contact you off-forum to make arrangements for delivery of your winnings. "Good-bye! Be good, take  care  of yourselves-and DON'T LEAVE  THE PATH!" Tom[/QUOTE]