Tolkien Jeopardy!

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Originally Posted by Boraxxe

Darn!, I thought I had it...
OK, here's another guess;

What is the "ruined" Shire that the 4 Hobbits find when they return?

Sam remarks, "This is worse than Mordor! . . . It comes home to you, they say; because it is home, and you remember it before it was ruined."

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No, that's not it.
The answer is not a place, and it involves several members of the fellowship.

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Originally Posted by Samwise_Sotall

No, that's not it.
The answer is not a place, and it involves several members of the fellowship.

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OK Samwise, we are stuck.
Got another hint?

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Originally Posted by Boraxxe

OK Samwise, we are stuck.
Got another hint?

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Sure do. Here goes:

Defoliation

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Originally Posted by Samwise_Sotall

Sure do. Here goes:

Defoliation

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What is the White Tree of Gondor (prior to the fall of Sauron)?

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Originally Posted by Erionor

What is the White Tree of Gondor (prior to the fall of Sauron)?

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Another good answer, but not what I am thinking of.
To put the clues in one place:

A most unnatural autumn
Greenery Gone
The answer is not a place, and it involves several members of the fellowship.
Defoliation

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Originally Posted by Samwise_Sotall

Another good answer, but not what I am thinking of.
To put the clues in one place:

A most unnatural autumn
Greenery Gone
The answer is not a place, and it involves several members of the fellowship.
Defoliation

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Not being a place, specifically, I am think of the Defiling of Isengard. But that does not include the fellowship. Got anymore hints?

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Originally Posted by Samwise_Sotall

Another good answer, but not what I am thinking of.
To put the clues in one place:

A most unnatural autumn
Greenery Gone
The answer is not a place, and it involves several members of the fellowship.
Defoliation

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Originally Posted by Swanee

Not being a place, specifically, I am think of the Defiling of Isengard. But that does not include the fellowship. Got anymore hints?

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Here's the next clue
A token is lost, but is found (by someone else) a day later.

What is the leaf brooch dropped by Pippin on the way to Isengard?

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Originally Posted by LagunaD2

What is the leaf brooch dropped by Pippin on the way to Isengard?

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Yes! You’ve got it square on the nose. Dropped by Pippin, later found by Aragorn.
Well done!

OK, so I guess I'm supposed to pose the next "answer"?

A web search will give this one away, but here goes:

This scion of kings had two sires.

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Originally Posted by LagunaD2

OK, so I guess I'm supposed to pose the next "answer"?

A web search will give this one away, but here goes:

This scion of kings had two sires.

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Who is Ereinion Gil-Galad? His sindarin name Ereinion means “Scion of Kings”, and his parentage was changed by Christopher Tolkien from Fingon to Orodreth.

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Originally Posted by Swanee

Who is Ereinion Gil-Galad? His sindarin name Ereinion means “Scion of Kings”, and his parentage was changed by Christopher Tolkien from Fingon to Orodreth.

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Wow, fast on the buzzer...

Yes, you nailed it - good job!

Tolkien was fond of alliteration. Here’s my attempt.

The seven suspected sons of the silmaril sire.

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Originally Posted by Swanee

Tolkien was fond of alliteration. Here’s my attempt.

The seven suspected sons of the silmaril sire.

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Who are Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, and Amras, the sons of Fëanor, sworn unto the Silmarils?

The Silmarillion has too many characters, LOL.

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Originally Posted by Samwise_Sotall

Who are Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, and Amras, the sons of Fëanor, sworn unto the Silmarils?

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Right track, but not there yet.

Hint #1: unmarked, unmarred, not speaking nor hearing.

What are the palantiri?

(Or to be more alliterative, what are the seeing stones?)

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Originally Posted by lagunad2

what are the palantiri?

(or to be more alliterative, what are the seeing stones?)

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correct!!!

Strangely, Galadriel was said by some to be this tall.

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Originally Posted by LagunaD2

Strangely, Galadriel was said by some to be this tall.

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Who is two rangar tall?

Galadriel was reckoned by the Dúnedain to be man-high. One ranga is 38 inches, which makes her 6' 4''.

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Originally Posted by AConyl

Who is two rangar tall?

Galadriel was reckoned by the Dúnedain to be man-high. One ranga is 38 inches, which makes her 6' 4''.

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"What is 'man-high'?"

was the response I was looking for. Congrats!

"Strangely" since Galadriel is

a) an elf, not a man

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b) female, not male

making it odd to use "man" to describe her.

The same source (the Appendix on Numenorean Linear Measures following "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields" in Unfinished Tales) goes on to say that Galadriel was "the tallest of all the women of the Eldar of whom tales tell".

Here's mine then:

This hill became forever silent after a king climbed it.

What is the Hill of Erech?

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Originally Posted by LagunaD2

What is the Hill of Erech?

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Good guess, but not quite the right hill. You're pretty close though :D

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Originally Posted by AConyl

Good guess, but not quite the right hill. You're pretty close though :D

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What is Rath Dínen?