The Revived Tolkien Trivia

[Grimward]

Fili and Kili were at the top of a tall larch like an enormous Christmas tree.

The Hobbit, Ch. VI, Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire

*Refrains from bad puns about being left in the larch*

 

[Stylus]

Ho ho ho ...

Correct answer. A Christmas bell is yours, and the next question.

 

[Marky Lazer]

You gave him Santa's bell?

 

[Grimward]

*Floats in, looking like a fiery version of Father Christmas*

There's a zillion birthdays in my family in July, so we actually do have a party we call Christmas in July, Marky.....Marky? Marky!

*Loud snoring from the corner where Marky's grown bored to death already.*

Ah well, thanks then Stylus. Maybe a challenge will wake Marky up....

What is only remembered in ancient tales of Doriath?

 

[Clansman]

Before we go on, I wish to point out a disturbing tendency in recent posts to act like a certain bear known to frequent the Chrons.

Is "punnyness" catching? Surely one Ursa is enough?

 

[Pyan]

Gods, yes...


As to Grimmy's question; The Petty-Dwarves...

...the slow hands of the Petty-Dwarves had bored and deepened the caves through the long years they dwelt there, untroubled by the Grey-elves of the woods. But now at last they had dwindled and died out of Middle-earth, all save Mîm and his two sons; and Mîm was old even in the reckoning of Dwarves, old and forgotten.
And in his halls the smithies were idle, and the axes rusted, and their name was remembered only in ancient tales of Doriath and Nargothrond.

Silmarillion, QS, Chapter 21, Of Túrin Turambar, Page 246, Unwin p/b edition, 1979.

 

[Grimward]

And here we come to a small quagmire. Your answer is accurate, but not what I'm looking for (although quite close). If no one else comes up with the one I want by, say, this time tomorrow, the bell is yours, oh green one.

 

[Grimward]

Well, since nobody has bitten on this subsequent to the last post, a bell in the shape of Bar-en-danwegh ( ) is yours, Sir Py; despite Tolkien's apparent revisionism, you were pretty close anyhow....

 

[Pyan]

Ithenkyu, Grimwarden...

A nice simple one:

Some put a name to
A hand hewn, a sword splinter'd:
The lost land he ruled?

 

[Grimward]

*Studiously pretends not to have a clue*

 

[Marky Lazer]

What's this? A haiku?

 

[Clansman]

No, it was just something to do.

*can anyone else keep the rhyme going AND answer the question?*

 

[The Judge]

No, it was just something to do.

*can anyone else keep the rhyme going AND answer the question?*

It rhymed???

And can someone just please answer the damn question so we can get one I might be able to answer (in plain prose).

J

 

[Pyan]

I didn't mean to make it harder by putting it as a haiku, honestly: should I re-phrase it?

 

[Grimward]

As I foolishly suppose I have the answer (although I don't have my books here at work, so the quote would have to wait), I will say "Not for my sake, Cthu"

(ask and ye shall receive, Clanny)

 

[Grimward]

It rhymed???

And can someone just please answer the damn question so we can get one I might be able to answer (in plain prose).

J

All right Your Honor, I'll respond to the clue.
It needs multiple quotes, I'm thinking a few
They're all in the Trilogy, though none in Vol. Two
and offered sans page numbers, which lead Marky askew

With what strength he had he hewed at the crawling arm near the wrist, and the hand broke off; but at the same moment the sword splintered up to the hilt.

The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Ch. VIII, Fog on the Barrow-Downs

[Some say that the mound in which the Ring-bearer was imprisoned had been the grave of the last prince of Cardolan, who fell in the war of 1409.]

The Return of the King, Appendix A, Eriador, Arnor and the Heirs of Isildur, The North-kingdom and the Dúnedain

The preceding quotes are my foolish cents two.

(er, The Last Prince of Cardolan is hard to work into this rhyme!)

P.S. I hate Haiku! You'll have to forgive me for ditching it, if indeed you can forgive me for the preceding silliness in the first place!

 

[Pyan]

The bell goes to Grimward,
The two quotes he found
Tell us, (indirectly),
Who's who in the mound.

'tis his turn, I'm thinking,
A question to pose!
(Though if I were he, I'd
Stick strictly to prose..)

 

[The Judge]

I didn't mean to make it harder by putting it as a haiku, honestly: should I re-phrase it?

Have just re-read my grumpy post, oh tentacled one, and I'm sorry if you thought I was getting at the haiku. In fact I was delighted to see it - and more power to your poetry elbow. It's just I was feeling particularly thick and thinking everyone knew the answer but me - though actually that's usually the case on here. And the 'plain prose' bit was just me making it clear that I wouldn't be inflicting my attempts at versifying on anyone - if you think Grimward's were bad...

J

 

[Grimward]

Thank you, your greenness. Alas, once rhyme takes root in my noggin, 'tis a hard thing to bat back out again...

My version of an easy chestnut....

Brothers we though half by birth
Separated at the firth

Who am I talking about?

 

[Marky Lazer]

I think you missed an "are" there somewhere

Oh, by the way, I think I know this one, but I'm at uni now. Gimme 2 hrs!