The Revived Tolkien Trivia

Grimward said:
Ignoring prologues, appendices and all other such things not properly labeled as chapters, I think there are a few. Here's one for now, and I will add more as/if I find them....

The Return of the King, Book Six, Chapter V, The Steward and the King
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Spot on! If there are any more, they're well hidden...

An unnamed bell, of indeterminate sex, is thrown under-arm in your direction.
 
*Whips out glove, scampers under the "fly bell" and snags it*

I was a centerfielder when I was younger, after all.... ;)

Thank you, pd....will tender the next challenge when I get home from work tonight.
 
Grimward said:
Sorry, took me a day longer than I expected!

What was finished in 172?
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A copy of the Red Book. From the LotR Prologue, Concerning Hobbits::

"It was kept at Great Smials, but it was written in Gondor, probably at the request of the great-grandson of Peregrin, and completed in S.R. 1592 (F.A. 172)."

I initially thought you must mean 172 in the Shire reckoning, but then I found this. Fourth Age 172 — sneaky!
 
"That's Grimward: He's a Sneak!"

Oh wait, that's Gollum....;)

Tis indeed, pd. Probably shouldn't have lept to the prologue so soon after your last challenge, but that's the way the one ring bounces....

A Red Book-shaped bell engraved with 'F.A. 172' is yours, along with responsibility for the next challenge.
 
Ok, here's a simple question. A quote with the answer please.

Who, judging by its other name, made the path that Bilbo and the Dwarves follow through Mirkwood in Chapter 7 of The Hobbit?
 
pdurrant said:
Ok, here's a simple question. A quote with the answer please.

Who, judging by its other name, made the path that Bilbo and the Dwarves follow through Mirkwood in Chapter 7 of The Hobbit?
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Obviously not as simple as I'd thought. Unless everyone else has also been off at the Latitude Festival. Perhaps a clue would be in order.

The Old Forest Road, the road through Mirkwood (once Greenwood) followed by Bilbo and the Dwarves, has another name that's mentioned several times in Unfinished Tales.

Once you have that name, and its translation, the probable creators of the road will be obvious.
 
Probably the Dwarves, as another of its names is Men-i-Naugrim, the Road of the Dwarves...

Men-i-Naugrim, the Dwarf Road is the Old Forest Road described in The Hobbit, Chapter 7.
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UT - Part 3, 1: The Disaster of the Gladden Fields - Note 14
 
Thank you - it'll go on my specially extended bell-shelf...:p

Who was failed by a sandastan?

(Quote, please.)
 
pyan said:
Thank you - it'll go on my specially extended bell-shelf...:p

Who was failed by a sandastan?

(Quote, please.)
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I think I know this, but I was hoping someone else would step forward, as I don't have another question ready yet!

If we haven't had an answer by Monday, I'll post my guess.
 
pyan said:
Thank you - it'll go on my specially extended bell-shelf...:p

Who was failed by a sandastan?

(Quote, please.)
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Unfinished Tales said:
In the dimmed light their number could only be guessed, but the Dúnedain were plainly many times, even to ten times, outnumbered. Isildur commanded a thangail[16] to be drawn up, a shield-wall of two serried ranks that could be bent back at either end if outflanked, until at need it became a closed ring.
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Unfinished Tales said:
Thangail ‘shield-fence’ was the name of this formation in Sindarin, the normal spoken language of Elendil’s people; its ‘official’ name in Quenya was sandastan ‘shield-barrier’, derived from primitive thandā ‘shield’ and stama- ‘bar, exclude’. The Sindarin word used a different second element: cail, a fence or palisade of spikes and sharp stakes.
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And, of course, the sandastan wasn't sufficient. The entire company were killed there, save for Othar and his companion, and Isildur.

Since Isildur commanded it formed, and it wasn't sufficient to protect him, so he had to flee, made invisible by the One Ring, I think it's fair to say that Isildur is the one failed by a sandastan.
 
Excellentamundo, pd - a bell cast from Orc arrow-heads goes to you, and the privilege of setting the next question...:)
 
pyan said:
Excellentamundo, pd - a bell cast from Orc arrow-heads goes to you, and the privilege of setting the next question...:)
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Thank you. A slightly cross-genre question from me.

If Rupert Brooke managed to visit Bag-End, at what hour might Bilbo get out the honey?

A quote (or two if you wish) would be welcome.
 
Well, the answer to the question would depend on how far in advance Bilbo liked to prepare, I suppose? Given that in the Hobbit, he showed a distaste for being flustered, I imagine he'd like to give himself at least five minutes, so how about two forty-five?

On the other hand, if I remember right, in Brooke's poem the clock was stuck at ten to three, so that time might bear no relevance to the timing of his appetites; he might expect tea at pretty much any hour of the day. You know what poets are like. So I imagine that Bilbo, in anticipation of the arrival of such a distinguished but unpredictable visitor, would have the honey on the table permanently, and would probably not go to bed, but sit up by the door so as not to answer it in his nightshirt, should the literary genius choose one of the hours of darkness to make his call.
 
HareBrain said:
Well, the answer to the question would depend on how far in advance Bilbo liked to prepare, I suppose? Given that in the Hobbit, he showed a distaste for being flustered, I imagine he'd like to give himself at least five minutes, so how about two forty-five?

On the other hand, if I remember right, in Brooke's poem the clock was stuck at ten to three, so that time might bear no relevance to the timing of his appetites; he might expect tea at pretty much any hour of the day. You know what poets are like. So I imagine that Bilbo, in anticipation of the arrival of such a distinguished but unpredictable visitor, would have the honey on the table permanently, and would probably not go to bed, but sit up by the door so as not to answer it in his nightshirt, should the literary genius choose one of the hours of darkness to make his call.
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You seem to have all the information needed to answer the question, except the right Tolkien quote.
 
HareBrain said:
Might have to leave the quote(s) to someone else.
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I said you had all the information needed — I didn't say you'd given the right answer, even without a quote. The right quote will also give you the answer...
 
pdurrant said:
I said you had all the information needed — I didn't say you'd given the right answer, even without a quote. The right quote will also give you the answer...
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Unsurprisingly, I'm looking for a quote from "The Hobbit". I thought this was a relatively easy question!
 
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