The Revived Tolkien Trivia

[farntfar]

Sorry.
I'm running out of things to ask.

Where were orcses shrieking? (Have I asked this before?)

 

[hopewrites]

You haven't asked it as far as I remember...

 

[Grimward]

This is I get for soliciting challenges; a big hairy problem affecting my entire company that sucks all my waking hours away for the past 2 weeks. Interestingly, I don't recall seeing an alert for either post, but they must have an expiration on them.

Er, back to the topic at hand; your challenge...*grins sheepishly*

YOU have not asked that before (unless you encrypted the word mid-post so as to hide it, in which case you're in the wrong business, and should be searching for the copyright office, not your Shiftgrethor), but the topic has surfaced indirectly. I will recuse myself from that quote, and endeavor to find another (my wandering memory suggests there's more than one such occasion...)

 

[farntfar]

I suspect, Grim that you are correct that orcs shrieked on multiple occasions.
However I did not ask "where were orcs shrieking?", I asked "where were orcses shrieking?".

I think, therefore I have limited the "story-teller" somewhat, and hope that he/she(?) only made one such reference.
If I'm wrong, I throw myself upon the mercy of the court.

 

[hopewrites]

Orcses, (now that I've tamed my dyslexic tendency to read your two questions as identical) does give me a clue. If I can just remember which box has the book I'm thinking of I might be back in this.

 

[Grimward]

I stand corrected (and guilty of Microsoft Word-like spelling correction, no less). I do not believe anyone has brought up that quote before. Go hope go!

 

[hopewrites]

Eep! The book I'm after is in a box I don't have access to.

I can make a guess from memory (which is very likely to be faulty) or I can look it up online, or I can pass to someone who has access to their books. Whichever you guys think most fair.

 

[farntfar]

It seems to me, that, if you can make a guess that's close, without the book, then that'll be good.
No-one's going to expect you to quote anything if you haven't got the source material.

 

[Grimward]

It seems to me, that, if you can make a guess that's close, without the book, then that'll be good.
No-one's going to expect you to quote anything if you haven't got the source material.

Seconded.

 

[hopewrites]

K, then my guess is in the goblin cave system in those mountains just theother side of rivendale.
I'm assuming Gollum or Bilbo is referring to the shrieking as it's a rather hobbity thing to say. I further assume that Gollum is the one ether making them shriek and/or tracking the shrieking, which is why I guess his home cave system when we met him. So not the goblin part of the mountain caves, but the bit under that where Gollum lurks.

 

[Grimward]

You'd need to light a candle in the Misty Mountain caves, for sure. I think they light candles in the place far's referring to also, but that light isn't a good thing...

 

[farntfar]

I'm afraid it isn't in a cave, Hope.
You've got the speaker but not the place.
And Grim. You're right about the little candles.

 

[hopewrites]

Not the dead marshes... Give it to Grim if it is because I have access to my trilogy, I was convinced it was in The Hobbit which is packed in a different box.

 

[farntfar]

`Yes, yes,' said Gollum. `All dead, all rotten. Elves and Men and Orcs. The Dead Marshes. There was a great battle long ago, yes, so they told him when Sméagol was young, when I was young before the Precious came. It was a great battle. Tall Men with long swords, and terrible Elves, and Orcses shrieking.


That's the one, Hope. A candlelit bell to you.
And I think that as Grim seems to have fairly deliberately avoided answering, it's down to you, to give us the next question.

 

[Grimward]

*Grins* Well, having had to search the thread to see if the question had been asked, I kind of felt obligated to stand aside (we're not supposed to be using search tools for content that's Tolkien's), and since hope had the speaker...

*Takes seat next to far and looks at hope expectantly...*

 

[hopewrites]

*hold back tears which sparkle in the light of the candle-bell*
I'd like to thank Grim for this beautiful gift, Far for his cleverness, my glasses for allowing me to see my phone, and continue to read these wonderful books*hurry up and get off the stage music starts up* I uh yes just everybody thank you, thank you.




Only trivial question I can think atm is: what's Aragorn's mother-in-law's name?

 

[farntfar]

That would be Celebriàn, the daughter of Celeborn and Galadriel.

 

[hopewrites]

Mother-in-law bell to Far and the challenge of another question

 

[farntfar]

Thanks, Hope
So Celebriàn was Aragorn's mother in law. She was also his xth cousin y times removed.
Can you give me x or y?
(I don't hold with marrying your 2778 year old cousin, whether they wear well or no.)


If you don't like that: (because it may involve lots of research and counting (or maybe not))
Which of the dwarves of Bilbo's journey was the closest relation to Thorin Oakenshield.

(PS Hope. If you look in the right places you still won't need to dig your copy of the Hobbit out.)

 

[hopewrites]

<3 appendices
<3 math

Race ya Grim