The Revived Tolkien Trivia

[Kissmequick]

Yes that's right, and then she was going to die, and Aragorn would refuse to marry anyone else and the line would die out iirc - but I noticed the source wasn't allowed, so I changed tha question.

Brownie point anyway

edit: HoME? am I being thick cos I can't remember what that one is...

and I've just realised my source for that question isn't allowed either. What, not allowing unfinished tales? *shakes fist*

Ok I'll try and get it right this time (it's been a long day)

Finish my fave quote: Out of doubt, out of dark....

 

[Pyan]

So he rode to a green hillock and there set his banner, and the White Horse ran rippling in the wind

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

These staves he spoke, yet he laughed as he said them....

He is Éomer: Théoden is dead, and, he thinks, Éowyn also, and he is making what he imagines is the last stand of the Rohirrim at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.

RotK: Book V: Ch.VI: The Battle of the Pelennor Fields.



HoME, by the way, is the History of Middle Earth, ed.Christopher Tolkien - the story of the writing of the Lord of the Rings. Not included because of the size of the damn thing. See Post#1 for details of the rules - we had to make them really tight because the last thread on this subject got a bit......silly.

 

[Kissmequick]

Well done, big gold star for you. An extra one if you manged to know it without looking lol.

I have to admit to being at least half way in love with Eomer.....

as for HoME, I've got those, if it's the series I'm thinking of, but I didn't realise the set was called that. Shame I haven't got the letters...something to ask father Christmas for

 

[Pyan]

as for HoME, I've got those, if it's the series I'm thinking of, but I didn't realise the set was called that.

These are the ones....
The History of Middle-earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shame I haven't got the letters...something to ask father Christmas for

Well worth getting...together with HoME, they add an extra dimension to an already solid edifice.


Right.....
Whereabouts in Middle-earth did the first of the Exiles land?

 

[Kissmequick]

Firth of Drengist, p90 Sillmarillion

and so to bed.

HoME - yeah I got most of those

 

[Pyan]

Spot on, KMQ - your turn to pose one!

 

[Kissmequick]

OK

How old was Merry when he and Pip left the shire to see Eomer the last time?

 

[Marky Lazer]

1484: In the spring of the year a message came from Rohan to Buckland that king Eomer wished to see Master Holdwine once again. Meriadoc was then old (102) but still hale.

The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B The Tale of Years, Later Events Concerning the Members of the Fellowship of the Ring.

 

[Kissmequick]

Yup

Away you go..

 

[Marky Lazer]

Okay... where are we?

[he] heard a burst of hoarse singing, blaring of horns and banging of gongs[.]

 

[Kissmequick]

Tower of Cirith Ungol

LOTR, IV, The Choices of Master Samwise

 

[Marky Lazer]

A golden bell and the floor for KMQ!

 

[Kissmequick]

*dingle a ling* nice.


OK, who is this?

An elven maid there was of old,
a shining star by day
Har mantle white was hemmed with gold
her shoes were silver grey

 

[Pyan]

....A star was bound upon her brows,

A light was on her hair
As sun upon the golden boughs

In Lórien the fair.

It's Nimrodel, as sung about by Legolas on the outskirts of Lorien.

FotR: Book II: Chapter VI: Lothlórien.

 

[Kissmequick]

*bursts into a round of applause*


Well done

 

[Pyan]

I thang yew....*bows*

Hokay....

What was Bëor's original name?

 

[Marky Lazer]

But when after a year had passed Felagund wished to return to his own contry, Beor begged leave to come with him; and he remained in the service of the King of Nargothrond while his life lasted. In this way he got his name, Beor, whereas his name before had been Balan; for Beor signified 'Vassal' in the tongue of his people.

The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Ch. XVII Of the Coming of Men into the West.

 

[Pyan]

Wrong!













































Heh, joking...your go, Mr Lazer.......

 

[Marky Lazer]

Where can we find the Little Kingdom?

 

[Pyan]

Well, it's the area around Oxford, as portrayed in Farmer Giles of Ham.

Mentioned as such in the Letters (121 - to Allen and Unwin - 13 July 1949) when JRRT refers to "...we used to beat the bounds of the L(ittle) K(ingdom) in an ancient car".