The Revived Tolkien Trivia

Need another clue to spark the challenge solving? How about 100 sparks? Or 100x100?
 
Holding it in one's hand was a challenge for some, although it apparently can fit into a large enough pocket...;)
 
K now I cant find my book, so anyone who comes behind me with the quote can have next go.

I'm thinking ether that star phile that Frodo got from Gladril, or one of the simiril. (spelling, I know. :( )
 
I think you're close, Hope. But I reckon it's the Arkenstone.
"a little globe of pallid light."
.........
"His small hand would not close about it for it was a large and heavy gem, but he lifted it, shut his eyes, and put it into his deepest pocket."
 
'Tis indeed the 4th most significant gem in Middle Earth (we'd have to give the Silmarils a 3-way tie for first), far. To you a bell filled with 10,000 sparks and the honors of placing the next challenge. ;)
 
Thanks Grim!

Hmm.
This should be fairly straight forward.

If the world were dissolved, why would its making yet be good?
 
I've the oddest image in my mind now of some space being string a spoonful of planets (present and middle earth among them) into their cuppa...

thanks. :/
 
I'm afraid, Hope, that you must look to your own vivid imagination for that one.

I hold Tolkien and myself entirely blameless in the matter. :LOL:

But thanks for sharing it.
 
..... according to a man who had pretty well lost hope in the success of his mission.
 
Right, my books are still MIA and all I can think is some something I read where the world got sung into being by the pre-high-elves... so that fits "making" but I dont know how it would get dissolved, (unless my MIA books were dropped in the bath, but I'd have noticed that right?) or why the ability to sing worlds into being was ever not "good"

DUDE! I want to sing worlds into being!

anyone's game as I'm stumped at the starting line.
 
Well it comes from a song, Hope. But a song that was sung by a man. And in the same book as the song of the making of Arda.

(which, strangely, makes me think of Ged from the Earthsea books. Didn't he speak of the Song of the making?. I suppose it's a fairly popular mythical idea.)
 
Aslan sung Narnia into being. I think it gets used because it rings true on a base level.
I know that when I'm singing I feel as though I am the disembodied sound coursing through the universe with the emotive power to create, change, or destroy things at will. That I bring the narrative to life with the creative power of my voice.

So that's why I connect with sung-into-being planets. *cant speak for everyone else though, shrug*
 
You're right there Hope, but it seems to me to be an extension of the idea of magic being word based.
Songs of power/ words of power/ spells. It's all the same idea.
But further than that, many religions also.
St John's Gospel starts with "In the beginning was the word....." for instance.

It must be nice to feel like a disembodied sound coursing through the universe, though. I envy you. :)
 
I haven't the book to hand but if I remember it right I'll add a bit of detail, as no-one as it's all gone a bit quiet.

Though all to ruin fell the world
And were dissolved and backward hurled.......
 
farntfar said:
You're right there Hope, but it seems to me to be an extension of the idea of magic being word based.
Songs of power/ words of power/ spells. It's all the same idea.
But further than that, many religions also.
St John's Gospel starts with "In the beginning was the word....." for instance.

It must be nice to feel like a disembodied sound coursing through the universe, though. I envy you. :)
Click to expand...

The power of word is even said to have power in our real world some (including myself) believe we are able to speak things into existence; Success, wealth, empowerment and not just positive things either.
 
Yes. We have rather let this one lie, Hope.
So another clue?
It was said/sung by someone who had two hands. But not for very much longer!
 
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