The Revived Tolkien Trivia

[hopewrites]

*facepalm* I was thinking Gondor in general, not the specific tower.

Clearly I was barking up the wrong tree.

As often happens with squirrels.

 

[farntfar]

sorry.
I forgot to set a question.
So fairly straightforward I think.

Why would you not expect an orc to want to play golf. (quotes required please)

 

[Grimward]

Now there's a cerebral challenge...

 

[farntfar]

It's really quite straight-forward once you find it.

But maybe I'll add that an orc by any other name probably smells slightly sweeter.

 

[hopewrites]

I haven't the time to look it up, so I'm dropping this hint for the next poster to capitalize on.

Bullroarer Took invented the game while being the only Hobbit to ride a horse.

 

[farntfar]

I think, Hope, that that's specific enough, if you can tell me why orcs (by any other name) were involved in his inventing Golf. (Being on a horse sounds more like he was inventing Polo. )

 

[farntfar]

Anyway Hope.
You clearly know it, and as I'm going to be offline for a while please accept this Bullroaring bell (like a cowbell but much much bigger and worn on a chain by very large hobbits) and give us the next question.

And for those of you who haven't found it, the description of the invention of golf is from the Hobbit: An Unexpected Party.

 

[hopewrites]

Uh. Yes. Sorry. Was off line.

Bullroarer Took knocked the goblins head off and down a rabbit hole, thus inventing golf. Which I further assume was played with proper orc heads for atleast a few years after. Making it an unsavory game for orcs to play. Unless they were really Aztec warriors... But I don't remember hearing that the Aztec warriors were created as a mockery of elves by any dark force... So probably not.


But a question. Yes. Um. Give me a sec.

 

[hopewrites]

Right.

What is a job for a more or less decent giant?

 

[hopewrites]

It's been a day or two, would you like a clue?

 

[hopewrites]

Almost a week, so... Clue one:

What is a job for a "more or less decent giant"?

 

[Grimward]

*Grins*

I know this, but am having trouble finding the quote. Still looking.

 

[hopewrites]

Clue two: I only own The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (all in one book of books) so it has to be in one of those 4.

 

[Pyan]

Blocking up holes that goblins use to ambush travellers when crossing the Misty Mountains.

'But their main gate used to come out on a different pass, one more easy to travel by, so that they often caught people benighted near their gates. Evidently people had given up going that way, and the goblins must have opened their new entrance at the top of the pass the dwarves had taken, quite recently, because it had been found quite safe up to now.

"I must see if I can't find a more or less decent giant to block it up again," said Gandalf, "or soon there will be no getting over the mountains at all."'

The Hobbit, Ch.6, "Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire'

 

[hopewrites]

*hands over application for a more or less decent job*
You win! That is it exactly.

What's our next head scratcher?

 

[Pyan]

I thank you!

In the absence of light, who could run as quickly as a mustelid?

 

[farntfar]

This means nothing to me, Py.

Any clues?

 

[Pyan]

It's in The Hobbit...

 

[hopewrites]

I assume Bilbo. Going to look for a reference to him being quick as a weasel in the dark. My brain is telling me to check the spider fight first, so I'll wait til morning to look...

 

[farntfar]

It's the goblins under the misty mountains who chased our heroes. Or at least their very quickest runners with the sharpest ears and eyes. These ran forward, as swift as weasels in the dark, and with hardly any more noise than bats.
Just before chapter 5 Riddles in the Dark.

Thank you Hope, for telling me what a mustelid is. I had no idea.