The Revived Tolkien Trivia

[Grimward]

I'm hardly the first to call on the Appendices, though, and possibly not even the first to use the family trees, although I'm less sure of the latter.

All right, must consider your challenge, but must leave work first to do so....

 

[Pyan]

It's got to be the puzzled fox, (Vulpes vulpes) who comes across Frodo, Sam and Pippin on the very first night out from Bag End.

A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed.

‘Hobbits!’ he thought. ‘Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There’s something mighty queer behind this.’ He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it.

FotR, Book I, Ch. III, Three is Company.

 

[HareBrain]

No out-foxing you, Pyan!

*Gives Pyan a rather strong-smelling bell, whereupon several small jumping things evacuate it in favour of his hair/tentacles*

The go is yours.

 

[Pyan]

That's OK...I'll just put one tentacle in the air when I go for a swim, and they'll all run up it and float away...

Hokay: Who wore tall helmets, with red feather crests?

 

[Marky Lazer]

Does it have anything at all to do with Hallacar? If not, I'll stop looking there

 

[Clansman]

Bingo! (Oh no, actually Bingo is on the preceding page )

The answer is Isengar Took



LOTR, Appendix C: Family Trees, "Took of Great Smials"

Ah, my next go was going to be the appendices in RotK, but alas, the bunny beat me to it. Well done, HB.

 

[Pyan]

Bump...

I thought this was relatively easy to find...or has everyone just been too busy?

 

[Stylus]

Sorry - hadn't quite worked out the quoting mechanism! Proper answer below.​

 

[HareBrain]

I recognise the image, and I'm pretty sure I know which book, but can't place it yet.

 

[Stylus]

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And Fëanor made a secret forge, of which not even Melkor was aware; and there he tempered fell swords for himself and for his sons, and made tall helms with plumes of red.

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This one had me scratching my head. Tall helmets makes me think of Gondor, but anything red is usually Mordor and its allies.​

But enough equivocating: the answer is Fëanor and his sons.​

The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter 7, Of The Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor​

 

[HareBrain]

Oh ... that's what you get for answering the phone halfway through a post.

Stylus, I think you're right, but you're meant to give a quote from the text.



(Edit: great, now this post is redundant too!)

 

[Pyan]

Doesn't matter: Stylus is correct, and I think (s)he gets an extra-special engraved bell to commemorate his/her entry into the thread...

Oh, and the chance to set the next Q...

 

[Stylus]

He, he.
(I'm not laughing, just clarifying my gender )​

With a tinkle of my new engraved bell, and the hope this hasn't appeared already, my question:​

Who was known as 'The Fat'?​

 

[Pyan]

Lalia, the widow of Thain Fortinbras Took II of the Shire

A well-known case (of a female hobbit being the head of a family), also, was that of Lalia the Great (or less courteously the Fat)...a great and memorable, if not universally beloved, 'matriarch'.

Letters, #214, to A.C. Nunn (draft)

*looks innocent...*

 

[Stylus]

Well ... that had you stumped for all of twelve minutes.

Correct answer, the next question is yours.​

 

[Pyan]

Ok...try this:

What was the favourite tree of the elves, explicitly stated...?

 

[Stylus]

In Tirion upon Túna the Vanyar and the Noldor dwelt long in friendship. And since of all things they loved most the White Tree, Yavanna made for them a tree like to the lesser image of Telperion...​

So my answer is: Telperion, the original 'White Tree'.

The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter 5, Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië​

 

[Marky Lazer]

Fresh blood! Muwahahahahahaaa!

 

[Pyan]

Put him down, Marky, you've been fed this month...

Correct, Stylus - a bell engraved with the Tree of the High Elves and the Star of Fëanor goes to you, and it's your turn again...

 

[Stylus]

Okay, next question:

Who thought his eyesight was superior to a sense of smell?