Middle-Earth Quiz!!

[TheScyphozoa]

Well, I'm not exactly sure if these are what you mean, but I remember that Bullroarer invented golf by knocking off Golfimbul's head into a hole and Bilbo made up Hey Diddle Diddle in the Prancing Pony.

[LOTRFan101]

What are the only two (2) examples/references to modern times within Tolkien's actually-written stories about Middle-earth and its history/inhabitants?

There's also a clock on Bilbo's mantlepiece in the Hobbit... if you're talking material objects here.

[hezrin]

I forget where, but didn't he describe something as sounding "like an express train rushing by" in one of the books?

[Gui_Incognito]

Alright I think it's time you told us the answer because you've brought the game to a halt for a couple days now.

[LOTRFan101]

Alright I think it's time you told us the answer because you've brought the game to a halt for a couple days now.

Well, I'll just start a new question.
Which "type" of Hobbit (of the 3 in-game) was most at home near water?

[Kanoroch]

Back to the old question, since the new one is very easy (Stoors), in the chapter with the stone giants, Thorin mentions that if they "don't get blown off, or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football."

[LOTRFan101]

since the new one is very easy (Stoors)

I just wanted something quick to get us going again.

I'll try again...

What year was Bilbo born in?

[Womdon]

Bilbo was born in 2890 T.A.

What did Glorfindel lay upon the Last Bridge that Aragorn later found?

[lastalliance]

A beryl, or an Elf-Stone. What are the names of the river that crosses the Last Bridge?

[gradivus]

Trick question. No river crosses the Last Bridge. It's the Last Bridge that crosses the river!

(It was the River Mitheithel, by the way.)

[Womdon]

I'll ask another question, how many Nazgul did Gandalf fight off on top of weathertop?

[sloth72khs]

I'll ask another question, how many Nazgul did Gandalf fight off on top of weathertop?

4, Who was the leader of the elves that Frodo, Pippen, and Sam met on their way to Crickhollow, What house of elves did they come from, and who was their lord?

[Kosomok]

4, Who was the leader of the elves that Frodo, Pippen, and Sam met on their way to Crickhollow, What house of elves did they come from, and who was their lord?

Gildor Inglorion, the House of Finrod. Difficult to say who their actual Lord would be, either Galadriel as she (sister of Finrod) or Elrond.

My forum name is an alternative version of a name from the Silmarillion. What is the more widely known version of the name and who is it?

[Jeffor]

Gildor Inglorion, the House of Finrod. Difficult to say who their actual Lord would be, either Galadriel as she (sister of Finrod) or Elrond.

My forum name is an alternative version of a name from the Silmarillion. What is the more widely known version of the name and who is it?

That would be Gothmog I beleive. He is the chief of the Balrogs.

One other character shares the name Gothmog. When does he appear and what is his role?

[gradivus]

One other character shares the name Gothmog. When does he appear and what is his role?

I believe he was a chief orc at Minas Morgul in Return of the King.
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The wisest of the Maiar once dwelt in Lorien in the Blessed Lands, where he often visited the house of Nienna and from her learned pity and patience. He put fair visions and promptings of wisdom into the minds of the Elves when they lived in Valinor but while the Two Trees lived the Elves never saw him unless it was disguised as just another Elf, so they didn't know where these visions and wisdom came from.

Who was this Maiar, what was his name in Quenya, and by what name is he more popularly known by readers of Tolkien?

[edwinunger]

I'll ask another question, how many Nazgul did Gandalf fight off on top of weathertop?

Don't mean to hijack the thread here, but I believe Gandalf was having tea at orthanc while the hobbits were at Weathertop. So technically, trick question, he fought none. Aragorn fought off four.

Since no one else has asked a question and I get bonus points for catching this one, here's one, rather detailed: describe briefly the fate of each of Thorin's company.

EDIT: Sorry I missed that last question, wasn't reading in enough detail. The answer is Olorin, or Gandalf as we know him.

[TGnat]

Don't mean to hijack the thread here, but I believe Gandalf was having tea at orthanc while the hobbits were at Weathertop. So technically, trick question, he fought none. Aragorn fought off four.

Gandalf did indeed encounter Balck Riders on Weathertop...

But they closed round at night, and I was besieged on the hill-top, in the old ring of Amon Sûl. I was hard put to it indeed: such light and flame cannot have been seen on Weathertop since the war-beacons of old. "At sunrise I escaped and fled towards the north. I could not hope to do more. It was impossible to find you, Frodo, in the wilderness, and it would have been folly to try with all the Nine at my heels. So I had to trust to Aragorn. But I hoped to draw some of them off, and yet reach Rivendell ahead of you and send out help. Four Riders did indeed follow me, but they turned back after a while and made for the Ford, it seems.

I could be wrong, but Gandalf seems to be saying that he fought all Nine of the Nazgul and that four continued to pursue him, leaving five to meet Frodo and company.

[Kanoroch]

Melkor, the Vala, who then became Morgoth, thusly named by Feanor, corrupted the Balrogs (Valaraukar) who were Maiar themseves.

What are the only two (2) examples/references to modern times within Tolkien's actually-written stories about Middle-earth and its history/inhabitants?

You really fail Illuminatus. After a while, you're supposed to reveal the answers to your questions, if no one got them right.

[Gui_Incognito]

[QUOTE=edwinunger;1727442]Don't mean to hijack the thread here, but I believe Gandalf was having tea at orthanc while the hobbits were at Weathertop. So technically, trick question, he fought none. Aragorn fought off four.QUOTE]

As previously mentioned he did indeed fight Black Riders on Weathertop. Not when the Hobbits were there as you thought but several days earlier, October 3rd as he marked on a rock. The Hobbits and Aragorn see lightning far away and wonder what it is on the night he battles on Weathertop.

[gradivus]

And anyway, Tolkien got it wrong: as we now know, Aragorn fought five Nazgul up there, not four. That's shown quite plainly in the movie, which as you know was filmed on location as it happened.

[Womdon]

Ooops, guess my question caused a bit of controversy. Maybe I should have asked something with a clearer answer. I don't think there's another question currently up, so I'll ask another:

Why was Thorin given the nickname "Oakenshield" ?

[Thehunter]

Wasn't it when he used an oak branch as a shield?

I suck with questions so if anyone else wnats to do one ... lol

[FlyFearless]

Yes that answer was correct. I'll give this game a shot.

Who created the Misty Mountains and what was their purpose?

[edwinunger]

Yes that answer was correct. I'll give this game a shot.

Who created the Misty Mountains and what was their purpose?

Okay this one is for vindication from my earlier mistake.

Melkor created the Misties to make it harder for Orome to hunt in ME.


Who was the dwarf who "helped" Turin hide from goblins, but later betrayed he and his companions?

[LOTRFan101]

Who was the dwarf who "helped" Turin hide from goblins, but later betrayed he and his companions?

Mim the petty-Dwarf, who was killed by ____________?