Tolkien Jeopardy!

[Boraxxe]

Who is Frodo?

Also, congratulations to all contributors of this thread: we made it to 1000 posts!

Grats Sam!

1000 posts...have you been waiting so that you could be #1000? ...great timing...
Just remembering all those years ago when this got started with One-Word Tolkien Trivia ...it's been quite a ride.

Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting hints.

You have once again earned the Jacket!

[Samwise_Sotall]

Grats Sam!

1000 posts...have you been waiting so that you could be #1000? ...great timing...
Just remembering all those years ago when this got started with One-Word Tolkien Trivia ...it's been quite a ride.

Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting hints.

You have once again earned the Jacket!

Thank you!

As a matter of fact, I posted my guess before I realized the number and edited the post afterwards. Lucky chance, I guess

Here’s another double jeopardy. This time, the answer should be a name and a title.

No flaming sword in my sun-colored hand
No armies flocking to heed my command
No massive garden on yon war-scarred plain
I’ll refuse the title, eschew the name

For I know in my heart, if I claimed the power
Relentlessly sought by the lord in that tower
His gaze would clean pierce me, I’d shrink and I’d cower

So I’ll see this thing through though the journey is long
With just a small garden and in my heart a song
For I the stout-hearted,________ the _________

[Swanee]

Thank you!

As a matter of fact, I posted my guess before I realized the number and edited the post afterwards. Lucky chance, I guess

Here’s another double jeopardy. This time, the answer should be a name and a title.

No flaming sword in my sun-colored hand
No armies flocking to heed my command
No massive garden on yon war-scarred plain
I’ll refuse the title, eschew the name

For I know in my heart, if I claimed the power
Relentlessly sought by the lord in that tower
His gaze would clean pierce me, I’d shrink and I’d cower

So I’ll see this thing through though the journey is long
With just a small garden and in my heart a song
For I the stout-hearted,________ the _________

Who is Samwise the Strong?

[Samwise_Sotall]

Who is Samwise the Strong?

Ding ding ding!

Yours the Jacket!

[Swanee]

It’s difficult to come up with a good “question”, let alone making it rhyme. Here we go…


Dark as night
A massive size
Golden ring
With blood-red eyes

[Reaboj]

It’s difficult to come up with a good “question”, let alone making it rhyme. Here we go…


Dark as night
A massive size
Golden ring
With blood-red eyes

Probably going with the seemingly easiest response but,
"What is the Eye of Sauron"?

[Swanee]

Probably going with the seemingly easiest response but,
"What is the Eye of Sauron"?

No, but you’re on the right track.

[Boraxxe]

It’s difficult to come up with a good “question”, let alone making it rhyme. Here we go…


Dark as night
A massive size
Golden ring
With blood-red eyes

First; great riddle.

Second; just because we have been playing a game of "rhymes" for a while doesn't mean that it is required. You can post the "answer" in any form you choose.

Third; Who is Telvido? Proto-Sauron, feline servant of Morgoth, with blood-red eyes, he was huge, with a black-as-night coat, and he wore a golden collar that was taken from him by Huan, hound of Valinor.

[Swanee]

First; great riddle.

Second; just because we have been playing a game of "rhymes" for a while doesn't mean that it is required. You can post the "answer" in any form you choose.

Third; Who is Telvido? Proto-Sauron, feline servant of Morgoth, with blood-red eyes, he was huge, with a black-as-night coat, and he wore a golden collar that was taken from him by Huan, hound of Valinor.

Winner winner, catfish dinner. The jacket is yours.

[Boraxxe]

Ok here's a new one: providing a regular old statement instead of a rhyme.

He is known to have completed an astounding "one-shot" while traveling with The Fellowship.

[AConyl]

Ok here's a new one: providing a regular old statement instead of a rhyme.

He is known to have completed an astounding "one-shot" while traveling with The Fellowship.

Who is Legolas Greenleaf? Pulled off the ol' heart-seeker on the Nazgul's fellbeast.

[Pontin_Finnberry]

Ok here's a new one: providing a regular old statement instead of a rhyme.

He is known to have completed an astounding "one-shot" while traveling with The Fellowship.

Who is Legolas?

'Praised be the bow of Galadriel, and the hand and eye of Legolas! ' said Gimli, as he munched a wafer of lembas. 'That was a mighty shot in the dark, my friend!' -The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter IX, The Great River.

Edit: seems i missed the above post i went afk for min before i posted, give it to AConyl if correct

[Boraxxe]

Who is Legolas Greenleaf? Pulled off the ol' heart-seeker on the Nazgul's fellbeast.

You have the Jacket!

[AConyl]

Pointing north, a sharp foaming prow;
A grey ship unmoved by many a year.
Taken and taken, held by men uncowed,
Called faint-hearted, wavering in the rear.

[Boraxxe]

Pointing north, a sharp foaming prow;
A grey ship unmoved by many a year.
Taken and taken, held by men uncowed,
Called faint-hearted, wavering in the rear.

Hmmm...In a way, I hope that I don't have this right.
I win too often. But I do like helping others decipher our puzzles.
Maybe this will help someone.

What is the Carrock?

[AConyl]

Hmmm...In a way, I hope that I don't have this right.
I win too often. But I do like helping others decipher our puzzles.
Maybe this will help someone.

What is the Carrock?

Well consider your wish fulfilled, you haven't quite got it. But you are certainly on the right track, in more ways than one.
And I see where you're coming from - a spirit of competition is all fine and good, but only when there are enough folks participating.

[Boraxxe]

Well consider your wish fulfilled, you haven't quite got it. But you are certainly on the right track, in more ways than one.
And I see where you're coming from - a spirit of competition is all fine and good, but only when there are enough folks participating.

Ah yes...it resulted in a hint.
I have another guess, but I will hold it in reserve, mainly because I don't think it's right.
It has the same issues that exist with my first guess; It fits the first two lines, but not the second two.
Very tricksy.

[Itharas]

Pointing north, a sharp foaming prow;
A grey ship unmoved by many a year.
Taken and taken, held by men uncowed,
Called faint-hearted, wavering in the rear.

What is Cair Andros?

[AConyl]

What is Cair Andros?

My apologies, I neglected to check the forums yesterday.
Cair Andros is indeed the answer - Itharas, you are our Jacket-bearer again!

Boraxxe, I thought the last two lines were the better clues
1. Captured and recaptured 2. By the faint-hearted

[Boraxxe]

My apologies, I neglected to check the forums yesterday.
Cair Andros is indeed the answer - Itharas, you are our Jacket-bearer again!

Boraxxe, I thought the last two lines were the better clues
1. Captured and recaptured 2. By the faint-hearted

Now that I know the answer, yes, those 2 lines nailed it down...good riddle.
That is mainly why I consider it a good riddle...
I thought, after a quick skim, that I knew where you were hinting at and then promptly turned off my brain.
If I had taken time to actually consider the whole I may have seen it.
A few seemingly disjointed bits.
But when you focus on the entirety then the picture blossoms.
I was too impatient to absorb and consider.
Thank you.

[Itharas]

Sorry for the delay. Unfortunately, something's come up and I probably won't be able to check the forums/post for some time, so I'll just leave the jacket here for whoever wants it.

[Pontin_Finnberry]

Alrighty I'll jump in and keep things going, heres one.

A land partly occupied by Wild Men was named after a son of a King.

[Boraxxe]

Alrighty I'll jump in and keep things going, heres one.

A land partly occupied by Wild Men was named after a son of a King.

What is Anorien?



I never realized that the Druadan Forest stretched for 40 miles.

Which sounds like it could be named after Anárion, son of Elendil.

[Pontin_Finnberry]

What is Anorien?



I never realized that the Druadan Forest stretched for 40 miles.

Which sounds like it could be named after Anárion, son of Elendil.

That is correct, the jacket is yours!

[Boraxxe]

OK, next one:

These two ended up happy .
She was the daughter of a Mayor.
He was the son of a Knight.