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Celeritas' Birthday Bash 2013  by Celeritas

00:00:03.52

Mike, check one.  Check one.

00:15:43.23

Why’d you drag me out to this grove in the middle of the night?  It’s not haunted, except for uni kids running out for a smoke.

00:16:08.43

No graves, but look how old it is.

00:16:16.76

Still not haunted.  We investigate ghosts, not fairies.

00:16:30.25

We investigate the paranormal.  And trust me, this definitely counts as paranormal.

00:25:25.42

Anann darthannem

00:26:32.12

Right.  Why is this paranormal?  It’s pretty bloody normal to be freezing on a night like this.

00:26:51.37

I looked it up.  They wanted to build a mall here, off the bypass.  Had the leasers signed up—H&M, Marks and Spencers, Disney.  Never even got so far as cutting down the first tree.

00:26:59.27

Tharanann darthannem

00:27:17.92

I remember when that happened.  They were already in loads of debt!

00:27:40.01

Yeah, but it kept on getting worse.  Forklifts stuck in the muds of a sudden rain.  Tree limb fell and broke the arm of the bloke using the chainsaw.  They went bankrupt over it, and the forest is still here.

00:36:46.27

U’arannem awartho i thoer i velannem

00:41:53.82

I guess the forums all think it’s aliens.

00:42:10.10

The forums always think it’s aliens.  But this time, I think they might be right.

00:42:31.56

You don’t believe anything without evidence.  The mall sounds like coincidence.

00:42:52.71

Could still be a coincidence.  But I caught it on tape, nothing like the recordings I’ve done before.  I’d know if I was hearing gibberish when I cut back home through here.

00:43:09.60

You didn’t set out to record here?

00:43:17.12

No, I went out to the graveyard.  Forgot to turn my mike off, and then caught this when I went through here.  At least, I think it was here.

00:45:41.50

Gibberish, though?

00:45:45.63

An ‘ni foer u-gennem

00:45:50.12

No language I recognized.  Sounded a little like Welsh, but not Welsh or Gaelic.

00:46:09.99

Half those languages have accents within them anyway.  Could be Cornish, or one of the other dead languages.  Could still be a ghost.

00:47:01.52

Think it’s a ghost, now?

00:47:12.43

No.  But if the gibberish you heard was right, if it’s picked up on this tape?  Maybe.

00:47:30.21

Pah.  With my luck no one’ll hear anything from here in another 5 years.

01:01:59.09

Pellem, ah u-thiam




A/N:  This is the first time I've tried to work on Sindarin, so the translation is a little rough and I probably only got half the lenitions right.  Roughly, the recordings, if translated, will play back this:

Long we waited
Over-long we waited
We could not leave the forests we loved
For the unseen shores
We fade, and are not seen.




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