The Revived Tolkien Trivia

Still at work... not gonna make it home tonight. farntfar, you can post the answer.
 
Apologies this thread slipped completely away from me.

@Boaz : you were so close that I thought you might have posted by now....
 
@Hugh This thread slipped my mind... when I sleep in the office two nights in a row, my life goes to pieces. But, I think hopewrites knows the answer...
 
I dont have access to my books. I'm two weeks from moving and cant remember which of the boxes marked "books" my copy of the Hobbit is in.

If someone else wanted to look in their copy of the Hobbit in the chapters about um.... what's his name... the guy with the cows and the bees...

I mean... I'd eat popcorn with that person.
 
that's the guy!

I assume Gandolf mentioned something about it being a skill when he was telling the dwarves about how he was the last of his kind the night he was out protecting them.

my memories pretty fuzzy though, so someone should look up a quote.
I have no question to follow up with so I'm happy to have just babbled out my idea and let someone else get the glory. :D
 
As Boaz has said, in The King of the Golden Hall Theoden says to Grima,/Wormtongue, "Your leechcraft ere long would have me walking on all fours like a beast.

So the answer is Grima's leechcraft, or medical care if you prefer.
 
Leechcraft!

Many congratulations @farntfar

A Rohirrim Bell for you and one also for @Boaz for getting the initial insight.
 
Umm - farntfar seems to have got lost in Nan Dungortheb, or possibly Udûn. I'll give him a poke.
 
Sorry, peeps.
It's becoming more and more difficult to find anything that doesn't seem very easy, and hasn't been done already.

So here's a fairly straight forward one.

Who came out on the right side in the end?
 
Hmm, I thought I'd find this easily enough, but my first guess seems to be wrong.

I've only relatively recently joined this thread, but what I like about it is that it means that I continually re-familiarise myself with Tolkien's work.
 
That's what it's here for, Hugh.

Are you British?
If so Arfur Daley or Del-boy might put £25 on you finding it.
 
Many thanks for the prompt. I might have got there in the end, but not so quickly...

We're still at the Prancing Pony, but the stable doors were opened in the night and every horse and pony has fled. Fortunately Mr Butterbur steps in and not only purchases a pony from Bill Ferny at the vastly inflated price of twelve silver pennies, but also offers Merry eighteen pence as compensation for his lost animals.

However...
"As a matter of fact he came out on the right side in the end. "

only one of the horses had been actually stolen, and all the rest were eventually found, and this included Merry's ponies by Tom Bombadil. Bombadil sent Merry's ponies to Butterbur, so he "got five beasts at a very fair price".
 
Nice, Hugh. I was thinking the Gaffer... "As well as ends better."
 
That's the one, Hugh.
A prancing bell for you.

And well done Boaz. Now I can't use that question. :rolleyes:
 
A prancing bell! Excellent!

So...

Who are these marchers?

" ...some were leaning, some were fallen, some cracked or broken; they looked like rows of old and hungry teeth."
 
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