The Revived Tolkien Trivia

[HareBrain]

Boaz deserves it way more than I do. (And as a moderator, I can edit all the previous responses if necessary, to make that irrefutable.)

BTW, there's something about a bell that goes on when someone gets a right answer, but I now have to confess that I've never fully understood this or where it came from. The first reference to a bell is in @pyan's post#26 The Revised Tolkien Trivia but it's clear this is drawing on something else between him and Marky. Maybe he'll explain everything for us. Or maybe it's one of the elder secrets whose mysteries should never be plumbed ...

 

[Pyan]

Boaz deserves it way more than I do. (And as a moderator, I can edit all the previous responses if necessary, to make that irrefutable.)

BTW, there's something about a bell that goes on when someone gets a right answer, but I now have to confess that I've never fully understood this or where it came from. The first reference to a bell is in @pyan's post#26 The Revised Tolkien Trivia but it's clear this is drawing on something else between him and Marky. Maybe he'll explain everything for us. Or maybe it's one of the elder secrets whose mysteries should never be plumbed ...

It came from the original Tolkien trivia thread - the one that was shut down after some rather unseemly squabbling. Nesacat started it, as I recall, awarding a bell for a rather good reply, and it became the usual award for the correct answer. It was revived in the new, Revised, thread and still continues today - probably one (if not the) oldest Chronicles traditions.

 

[Boaz]

I've been sick for days... totally jacked up on the flu, allergies, nyquill and allegra.

Match the following Elf maids with their nicknames...

Arwen, Elwing, Finduilas, Idril, Luthien, and Miriel.

Celebrindal, Faelivrin, Serinde, the White, Tinuviel, and Undomiel.

 

[HareBrain]

Get well soon, Boaz.

One of those I had to look up, and one is by elimination ...

Arwen Undomiel
Elwing the White
Finduilas Faelivrin
Idril Celebrindal
Luthien Tinuviel
Miriel Serinde (whoever that is)

 

[farntfar]

Miriel serindê was Finwë's first wife and the mother of Fëanor.
Serindë meant the broideress apparently.

 

[Boaz]

HB has the correct belles. Soooo... I give you the Belles Bell.

@farntfar I dunno how to do umlauts or any accents, but yes... you have the knowledge.

 

[HareBrain]

Thanks Boaz

Who (or what) drinks to forget?

(Quote please, or good paraphrasing if you don't have the books with you.)

 

[Pyan]

@farntfar I dunno how to do umlauts or any accents, but yes... you have the knowledge.

I find the easiest way is to Google the name, then copy and paste it, complete with accents or tehtar into the post...
Easier than the old-fashioned way, I'd have thought:

 

[Boaz]

Drinks to forget? Accidentally or purposefully?

 

[Pyan]

Thanks Boaz
Who (or what) drinks to forget?
(Quote please, or good paraphrasing if you don't have the books with you.)

Not a person at all, but Túrin's sword, Gurthang, on its last act before breaking:

"And from the blade rang a cold voice in answer: 'Yea, I will drink thy blood gladly, that so I may forget the blood of Beleg my master, and the blood of Brandir slain unjustly. '"

The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion: Chapter 21, Of Túrin Turambar

 

[Boaz]

GAH!!!! I blame the combination of medications and my illnesses for not getting that one. I was thinking of dwarves in Mirkwood....

 

[farntfar]

Good one Py.

@farntfar I dunno how to do umlauts or any accents, but yes... you have the knowledge.

It's not quite cheating, but I am using a french keyboard which has that stuff available.

 

[HareBrain]

Well done Py! I expected to have to give a couple of clues with that one. A meteoric iron bell for you.

 

[Pyan]

I thank you!

A nightingale, crushed into the dust. Where?

 

[Boaz]

Nightingale and dust seem easy... but in relation to crushing?!?!

 

[Boaz]

Fingolfin was crushed... ground into the mud. Hama was hewn to pieces. Thror was chopped up and fed to the crows.

But as for the trivia... my best guess is... The Silmarillion, Chapter Nineteen, Of Beren and Luthien,

"Though all to ruin fell the world
and were dissolved and backward hurled;
unmade into the old abyss,
yet were its making good, for this―
the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea―
that Luthien for a time should be."

 

[Pyan]

Hint: There's more than one character whose name means, or is associated, with the word 'nightingale'...

 

[Boaz]

No... I don't remember any elf-maids called Florence... I remember a Thrush crushing snails... Are thrushes nightingales? Are nightingales thrushes? Aragorn also called Arwen Tinuviel the very first time he saw her and she lamented his passing, but she died alone in Lothlorien...

I'm stumped... and you're sure you're not pulling this from Robert Jordan?

 

[Boaz]

Edit: Double post.

I reckon I'll take a guess... Erebor?

 

[farntfar]

Anfauglith means the Gasping Dust, but I'm not sure that's it either.