The Revived Tolkien Trivia

[Marky Lazer]

Knowing how pedantic Pyan can be, he probably wants you to count letters, too

 

[Pyan]

Ooh, Marky, you're so sharp you'll cut yourself !

Correct, Mor-Ríoghain, vendë vanya. Your go.....

 

[Mor-Ríoghain]

Who is this referring to?

It was not yet quite dark again. They plodded along, on into the night. The hours passed in a weary stumbling trudge with a few brief halts. At the first hint of grey light under the skirts of the canopy of shadow they hid themselves again in a dark hollow under an overhanging stone.

 

[Pyan]

It was not yet quite dark again. They plodded along, on into the night. The hours passed in a weary stumbling trudge with a few brief halts. At the first hint of grey light under the skirts of the canopy of shadow they hid themselves again in a dark hollow under an overhanging stone.
Slowly the light grew, until it was clearer than it yet had been. A strong wind from the West was now driving the fumes of Mordor from the upper airs.

RotK - Book VI - Chapter II - The Land of Shadow

It's Frodo and Sam on the last lap of the journey, descending the Ephel Dùath into Gorgoreth.

 

[Mor-Ríoghain]

The floor is yours Mr Pyan

 

[Pyan]

Thank you.....

As their eyes became used to the dimness they could see a little way from side to side in a sort of darkened green glimmer. Occasionally a slender beam of sun that had the luck to slip in through some opening in the leaves far above, and still more luck in not being caught in the tangled boughs and matted twigs beneath, stabbed down thin and bright before them.

Who? Where?

 

[Wybren]

I believe that this is referring to Bilbo and Company as they enter Mirkwood. It is the second paragraph of chapter 8 "flies and spiders" of "The Hobbit"

Is this correct?

 

[Marky Lazer]

As their eyes became used to the dimness they could see a little way from side to side in a sort of darkened green glimmer. Occasionally a slender beam of sun that had the luck to slip in through some opening in the leaves far above, and still more luck in not being caught in the tangled boughs and matted twigs beneath, stabbed down thin and bright before them.

The Hobbit, Ch. 8 Flies and Spiders.

They are Bilbo Baggins and his Dwarf companions, and they are in Mirkwoord. Only it takes long to find those quotes!

In a great cave some miles within the edge of Mirkwood on its eastern side there lived at this time their greatest king.

And this has to do for the "they":

As Bilbo's sharp inquisitive eyes got used to seeing things...

Out of the gloom came suddenly the shape of a flying deer. It charged into the dwarves and bowled them over, then gathered itself for a leap.

 

[Pyan]

Yep, you've got it, Marky...sorry there wasn't a neatly packaged quote nearby!

Two bells, for the extra work involved: you to go!

 

[Marky Lazer]

I believe Wybren got it first, and in order to let more people play ball, I think it's fair to let him have the floor. Though I won't give you no bells!

 

[Wybren]

HMM last time I checked I wasn't a Him

 

[Marky Lazer]

You can post a question nonetheless. Kind sir

 

[Kissmequick]

yes please post a question - every time I pop on, there's never a question!!

 

[Pyan]

Your absolutely right, Marky, and my apologies, Wybren - I used the little blue arrow to get to Marky's post, and didn't notice yours above it.

 

[Wybren]

Quite alright

Ok

Who said this and to whom

"you renounce your friendship, even in the hour of our need...Yet you were Glad indeed to receive our aide when you came at last to these shores, fainthearted loiterers, and wellnigh emptyhanded...."

 

[Pyan]

Then Fëanor grew wrathful, for he still feared delay; and hotly he spoke to Olwë. "You renounce your friendship, even in the hour of our need," he said."Yet you were glad to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores, faint-hearted loiterers, and wellnigh empty-handed. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still, had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls."

Silmarillion - Quenta Silmarillion - Chapter 9 - On the Flight of the Noldor.

 

[Wybren]

Did I make that to easy???

 

[HoopyFrood]

Don't worry, Wybe, these Lord of the Rings fans just really know their stuff!

 

[Pyan]

Don't tell me you couldn't do the same with Stephen King, Newt!

And no, it wasn't too easy, Wy - it just triggered something...I think it was the phrase "fainthearted loiterers"


Try this....How many Orcs were slain by a smoking, withering axe?

 

[Marky Lazer]

Don't worry about easy, Wybren. Look how easy Pyan makes them questions!

Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time he slew Hurin cried: 'Aure entuluva! Day shall come again!' Seventy time he uttered that cry[.]​

The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Ch. 20 Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad​

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