The Revived Tolkien Trivia

Maybe Sam incorporated bats along with frying pans into his arsenal.
 
Where there bats in the rafters at Théoden's Golden Hall when Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas arrived? (he certainly had bats in his Belfry at that point in the story!)
 
Pippin, confessing to Gandalf after taking the Palantír...

In a low hesitating voice Pippin began again, and slowly his words grew clearer and stronger. 'I saw a dark sky, and tall battlements, ' he said. 'And tiny stars. It seemed very far away and long ago, yet hard and clear. Then the stars went in and out - they were cut off by things with wings. Very big, I think, really; but in the glass they looked like bats wheeling round the tower.
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The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter XI The Palantír
 
Thank you sirs. It's been TOO long.

In other fairy tales, Rapunzel was said to have long hair. Who in the Tolkienverse was the heir of such?

Edit: As usual for me, quotes are enjoyed, but not required.
 
Well, I estimate that I've read the book about 30-35 times straight through in the last half century (bear in mind that I was born only three months after FotR was published) so I've a mind like Barliman Butterbur (with the difference that I can produce what's wanted, most of the time...)
 
I find that a Trilogy re-read every so often (it's been a couple years since my last) STILL reveals things I hadn't perceived previously, although now they tend to be more about context and less about not actually having SEEN the passage that leads to the revelation before.

Don't want you to get a bit vexed; I've clues to offer...
 
This sounds like Lúthien, locked up by her father, Thingol, to stop her from going with Beren to steal a Silmaril from the Iron Crown.

It is told in the Lay of Leithian how she escaped from the house in Hirilorn; for she put forth her arts of enchantment, and caused her hair to grow to great length, and of it she wove a dark robe that wrapped her beauty like a shadow, and it was laden with a spell of sleep. Of the strands that remained she twined a rope, and she let it down from her window; and as the end swayed above the guards that sat beneath the house they fell into a deep slumber. Then Lúthien climbed from her prison, and shrouded in her shadowy cloak she escaped from all eyes, and vanished out of Doriath.

Silmarillion: Ch.19: Of Beren and Lúthien
 
Apologies your greenness...somehow I missed this.

A reasonable attempt (and without a doubt the most Rapunzel-like passage in all of Tolkien's works), but in addition to length the heir in my challenge figures prominently in the passage I'm looking for...
 
I'd come to the same conclusion as Py.

So are you talking of Dior?
Surely he was called Thingol's heir, not Luthien's, even if he inherited the Nauglamir from Luthien.
And then Elwing inherited it from him.
So maybe it's Elwing, although I didn't know she had long hair, and her bird form was given to her by Ulmo.

Anyway,you want a passage with heir in it. So back to searching.
 
Not Dior, and hair is as important as heir for this passage (although I must apologize for not finding a way to also work hare in, and we'll have to settle for having him try to solve the riddle instead). Hair, one might observe, can grow in multiple places...
 
So, you're suggesting it's a 'obbit.

I thought immediately of Goldilocks Fairbairn as the inheritor of the Red book but can't seem to find any good quotes, or else simply Sam as the heir of "all that I (Frodo) had and might have had" towards the end of "The Grey Havens" but never both heir and hair together.
 
How about the heirs to Tookland and Buckland? After drinking the water in Fangorn with Treebeard, both Merry and Pippin were described as having longer and curlier hair...
 
You're both thinking in the right direction, but not regarding hobbits. The hair in question is neither "green and growing" nor gold, simply long...in fairness, a single hobbit was present when the quote was uttered.
 
By Durin's beard! The activity in this thread has escaped my notice.

Except for the chase of the three hunters and the battle at the Hornburg, there's always at least one hobbit present.

So I think this trivia is either a reference to Luthien when Lindir was speaking to Bilbo or a reference to Durin the Deathless.
 
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