The Revived Tolkien Trivia

Neither. It was Tolkien's mistake of putting Swanfleet in the wrong place, which Christopher T. fixed in Unfinished Tales.
 
Egads (and curses to my employer, who tasks me severely)!

Has the thread indeed died? I do not see an unanswered challenge hanging....:(
 
My bad. I haven't bothered to post a question. But it ain't dead yet.

How 'bout I lob up an easy one for one of the newbs around here?

Where were the Rings of Power forged, and by whom? Quote required, for such a pop fly as this (that is a North American reference to baseball for you lot in the UK).

Bonus question: explain the Infield Fly Rule (kidding).
 
I FOUND THE BOX WITH MY BOOKS IN IT!!!! *happy dance*

dont know if this counts as an answer, but I think I have it.

1200- Sauron endeavours to seduce the Eldar. Gil-galad refuses to treat with him; but the smiths of Eregion are won over. The Numenoreans begin to make permanent havens.
c.1500- The elven-smiths instructed by Sauron reach the hight of their skill. They begin the forging of the Rings of Power.
c.1590- The Three Rings are completed in Eregion.
c.1600- Sauron forges the One Ring in Orodruin. He completes the Barad-dur. Celebrimbor perceives the designs of Sauron.
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~ Appendix B, second page of, where the Second Age is being chronicled out. (Bold added to show reference for my answer)

so the answer is Sauron with the help of Elven smiths, whom he seduced, in Eregion. though I had thought otherwise.



Bonus Question: If the batter hits it fair, but the catcher catches it. Pop-Fly. I guess it's like bunting, but up rather than out.
All I know is I wouldnt try it because I know I dont run fast enough.
 
A clunky bell with a baseball for a clapper to the maudlin maiden, hopewrites!

A Washington fan, perchance? All that is left of my once-beloved Expos:(:(...would have been Series champs in 1994, (which would have kept them in Montreal), except for that stupid players' strike.:mad: They were playing .694 ball and up by about 20 games at the end of July. July! Then, the great fire sale of the fall of '94.

Question to you, hw.
 
Your loss is my gain, Clanny. They're now the Nats, and in my backyard (relatively-speaking).

*Waits for hope's question....which might make a good book title...;)*
 
more of a music major myself, only thing I know about baseball I learned from watching games I opened for...


Ummmm




how many songs are listed (by listed I mean lyrics noted out) in the entire collected works?
titles and page numbers (bonus if also list performers)


sorry its such an easy question, i'm such a novice...
 
Not so easy, perhaps.

Pyan might know the answer off the top of his head, but depending on how you defined the entire collected works, for me that's gonna take research.:D Therefore, I have a question: Are you including the History of Middle Earth too?

I will also share a tidbit that was previously suggested to me; I'm told the page numbers can drift over the different published editions.
 
hmm. well I only have the two stories (Hobbit and LotR) and since some songs take up more than one page as long as it was close, was going to count it, understanding that the volumes of LotR can be bought broken up as was published or together as one story.

how bout we say in The Hobbit, the three books for LotR, and Appendices.
 
You have "the floor" so you're the boss. ;)

The Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings plus appendices it is.
 
Eh? I thought Hope posed one, in #1990 above...:confused:

Note - I'd counsel against asking for page numbers, as (as Grimmy says) the various editions can have wildly different ones for the same quote. Just for starters, the pages in the all-in-one paperback edition of LotR are numbered consecutively from the beginning to the end, whereas the three volumes of the hard-back editions restart the numbering for each book. For instance, the Song of the Mounds of Mundburg is on both page 124 and on page 882...
 
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Eh? I thought Hope posed one, in #1990 above...:confused:

Note - I'd counsel against asking for page numbers, as (as Grimmy says) the various editions can have wildly different ones for the same quote. Just for starters, the pages in the all-in-one paperback edition of LotR are numbered consecutively from the beginning to the end, whereas the three volumes of the hard-back editions restart the numbering for each book. For instance, the Song of the Mounds of Mundburg is on both page 124 and on page 882...
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My bad. At least I got to practice my pirate lingo. Have to get out the Hobbit and LOTR and start counting, though it would be nice to have another contestant "come on down".
 
*Passes Clanny a Sam Adams Summer Ale*

Don't sweat it.

*Continues counting.....*:D
 
I killed it
I killed it dead!

*cries for weeks on end, then stops crying and comes up with a new question*


what were the rain and sun for the line
Then, as a sweet rain will pass down a wind of spring and the sun will shine out the clearer,
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~Return of the King
 
And, to think that I eschewed just counting the songs in the Appendix and was halfway thru The Two Towers, going page by page.... :rolleyes:

A note to those not insane: Never count them in this fashion unless you are also (re)reading The Lord of the Rings at the same time. The Hobbit went quickly enough, but the rest....

*Begins perusing The Return of the King*
 
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