The Revived Tolkien Trivia

Uncolour me intrigued! :p

But no worries on the slip. It made me search and ponder for a while, which is a treat on its own.
 
Thank you Pyan. (and I suspect Corbier already had as much.)

OK
as a sort of Gollumish riddle.

A dark one flaunted kinship to a white one.
The white one had real kinship with a bright one.
The bright one (surprisingly to many) made no reference to a tree.

Explain!
 
A quick addendum to the question after checking my sources.
Probably better if I said shiny rather than bright.
So.

A dark one flaunted kinship to a white one.
The white one had real kinship with a shiny one.
The shiny one (surprisingly to many) made no reference to a tree.
 
Sorry Cor.
I couldn't quite decide whether you were going to be baffled by this or find it quite trivial.
We're looking for 3 people (of one sort or another) who have some sort of family relationship as described. (kinship)
The rest of the riddle ALL relates to their names or nicknames they were given.
 

Unfortunately Cor, you arenot the first person to have made that remark. :))
but it's difficult to give you more without giving you the answer.

ok
A dark one flaunted kinship to a white one.
The white one had real kinship with a shiny one.
The shiny one (surprisingly to many) made no reference to a tree.
There are 3 people to find. They are related toone another somehow.
each has a clue as what they were called, which might be their name or just howthey were referred to.
"had real kinship" was clumsy and just means they were blood relatives.
(As an example: Aragorn is also Elessar and the Elfstone and known as Strider and the Ranger etc. So the name clue could refer to any of that. He's blood related to Olwe, as the direct descendant of Elros who was Olwe's great great great nephew )
 
I have a thought... but am completely packed (as far as books) and have no way of checking my thought, or finding what proff their may be that I am right (or wrong as the case may be)
 
Hope.
If you think you have the three people, but without quoteable proof, I should think its enough, especially in the circumstances.
If you don't want to risk giving half of it away to the 'orrible opposition, because you can't check it, send me a PM and I'll let you know.
 
Well 'orrible or not:D , if even my 'onorable lord Pyan (tugs at forelock) can't get past my thought processes, I'd better give you another clue.

Very simply
Radagast is a brown one.

Now something more complicated.
Through the town of Buckleberry flows brown water, not cognac.
So by the same logic, Meriadoc is a brown one too.
As it happens, JRRT played this game much better than I do, so Merry isn't actually. He's something more edgy.
 
And I'm sorry Hope.
I really think you'll need the reference books for this. If you can't find it on the internet?
 
*Grins*

Er, we kind of frown on internet usage for the solving of riddles here. No way to enforce it, of course, but half the fun of handling the challenge is a return to the books (admittedly, if one's books are packed, there's not much else a body can do!). Having said that, I will admit to being sorely tempted after that Heliohadrogliderwhatsawhosis question a page or so back...:D
 
I packed my comp. (Posting from my phone) so I completely yeld the floor. Lol unless its still not answered next week when I'll be unpacked and can look
 
Nobody got any of it?

More clues required?

Or do you just want me to explain my clearly unclear logic and let someone else have a go?
 
I'm going to give this the only angle my feeble brain has come up with. I think at least part of it is unlikely, as you'd not just drop part of the answer (and all of that hinting abut Merry and the brown Brandywine doesn't really have counterpart among my choices, which are mostly quoted overtly), but here it goes...

Eol is the "Dark One".

But now the trees of Nan Elmoth were the tallest and darkest in all Beleriand, and there the sun never came; and there Eol dwelt, who was named the Dark Elf.

And when Aredhel, weary with wandering, came at last to his doors, he revealed himself; and he welcomed her, and led her into his house. And there she remained; for Eol to her to wife, and it was long ere any of her kin heard from her again.
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Aredhel is the "White One"

Aredhel Ar-Feiniel, the White Lady of the Noldor, daughter of Fingolfin, dwelt in Nevrast with Turgon her brother, and she went with him to the Hidden Kingdom.
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The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Ch. XVI, Of Maeglin

Aragorn is the "Shiny One" (Wanted to say Earendil, but can't find the Tree reference or make the connection via quotes); Elfstone, Star of Elendil, 'nuff said.

But Eomer said: 'Already you have raised the banner of the Kinds and displayed the tokens of Elendil's Hourse. Will you suffer these to be challenged?'

'No', said Aragorn. 'But I deem the time unripe; and I have no mind for strife except with our Enemy and his servants.

'Not a beggar,' said Aragorn. 'Say a captain of the Rangers, who are unused to cities and houses of stone.' And he commanded that his banner should be furled; and he did off the Star of the North Kingdom and gave it to the keeping of the sons of Elrond.
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The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Five, Ch. VIII, The Houses of Healing

Aragorn is descended from Elros who is descended from Turgon who is brother to Aredhel. His banner is the White Tree, which he ordered furled, thereby eliminating reference to it.
 
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