The Revived Tolkien Trivia

Oops. Sorry about the spelling mistake.

That's what I was looking for Corbier. Well done!

I see your point about Gimli. It must have been all the chainmail.
I don't suppose HIS dad asked,"What's come of his weskit?" when he got home.
 
Thanks, farntfar. I guess with such splendid players we can crank up the level a little...

Where can we find some red nails then, please?
 
Ah! The red nails of the white hand of Orthanc.

"Now Gandalf rode to the great pillar of the hand and passed it: and as he did so the riders saw, to their wonder, that the hand no longer appeared white. It was stained as with dried blood; and looking closer they perceived that its nails were red."
 
Thanks Cor!

A bit more involved and you don't have to provide quotes for it all.

What animal links some of the kinsmen of Thingol with one of the kinsmen of Denethor?
 
Not quite. When I have a spare moment between being sick, packing, work, and everything else I'm reading random parts of the three volumes I havent packed yet.
What with the year being fresh, I'm sure the others are busy too.
 
Yes it does doesn't it. Sorry. I feared as much.
It was a swan.
The ship and the silver swan of Imrahil, princd of Dol Amroth, Kinsman of the lord.
and multiple references to swans for the Teleri, the people of Elwe, brother of Olwe Singollo (so Thingol)
(References the swans of Ossé who drew their ships to Aman; Aqualonde (Haven of the swans; Earwen the swan maiden, daughter of Elwë etc)
A bit too contrived.

So more straightforwardly:
Who was excused for his choice of the morning?
 
That's alright. I dont think I would have found it. Now I'll just have to look for this other one.
 
This is Éomer and Gimli excusing each other for their choices of the fairest between Arwen Evenstar and Galadriel.

But first I will plead this excuse,’ said Éomer. ‘Had I seen her in other company, I would have said all that you could wish. But now I will put Queen Arwen Evenstar first, and I am ready to do battle on my own part with any who deny me. Shall I call for my sword?’ Then Gimli bowed low. ‘Nay, you are excused for my part, lord,’ he said. 'You have chosen the Evening; but my love is given to the Morning. And my heart forebodes that soon it will pass away for ever.’
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RotK, Book 6, Ch. 6, Many Partings
 
Thank you!

Now, who or what's feet were wrapped in green twilight?
 
Trees.

Then the seeds that Yavana had sown began swiftly to sprout and to burgeon, and there arose a multitude of growing things great and small, mosses and grasses and the great ferns, and trees whose tops were crowned with cloud as they were living mountains, but whose feet were wrapped in green twilight."
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The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, "Of The Beginning of Days"
 
Correct! - and a bell wrapped in green twilight goes to you.:)

Carry on - your turn...
 
Heh, good one - but unfortunately (for you..:)), this is from one of the Letters that I've read and reread many, many times - it's a pivotal argument by JRRT for the Silmarillion and the LotR to be treated as one continuous narration rather than separate stories. Tolkien was trying to get both books published as a package, and as Allen & Unwin had declined to do so, he was trying to convince Milton Waldman of Collins instead.

The answer is the Númenóreans, in the Second Age.
They now made settlements on the west-shores, but these became rather strongholds and ‘factories’ of lords seeking wealth, and the Númenóreans became tax-gatherers carrying off over the sea ever more and more goods in their great ships. The Numenoreans began the forging of arms and engines.
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Letters, No 131, To Milton Waldman

Good to see the Letters being used, though - there's a huge amount of potential teasers in that book...:)
 
Also used as preface to The Silmarillion's second edition. Well done, Mr Pyan sir.
 
I thank you *bows*

Who thought of a town filled with bells made of gold?
 
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