The Revived Tolkien Trivia

HareBrain said:
Well done, pdurrant. Here's your bell -- in a survey, 78% of respondents said it sounded "tinkly".

Grim, sorry to hear that work is keeping you from more important matters. Good to see you back in the thread though.
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Thank you for the bell, I'll hang it with my other one.

And now to think up my own puzzle... but not tonight. Hopefully tomorrow. (Tonight I have to slaughter a haggis.)
 
Not by blood - but (sort of) by marriage.


1463 Faramir Took marries Goldilocks, daughter of Samwise
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Faramir Took was the son of Thain Peregrin Took I, aka Pippin.

RotK, Appendix B, The Tale of Years. - also shown in Appendix C, Family Trees: Took of Great Smials.
 
That's OK, cornelius.

If the previous 126 pages are any indication, there'll be another...:rolleyes:;)
 
pyan said:
Not by blood - but (sort of) by marriage.

Faramir Took was the son of Thain Peregrin Took I, aka Pippin.

RotK, Appendix B, The Tale of Years. - also shown in Appendix C, Family Trees: Took of Great Smials.
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Spot on. Here, have this small family tree of bells.

Over to you for the next question....
 
Zzzzz...Oops, sorry...

Sméagol, of course, murdered Déagol - but can anyone give me an example of a female Hobbit committing a (possible) murder?

Quote required.
 
pyan said:
Zzzzz...Oops, sorry...

Sméagol, of course, murdered Déagol - but can anyone give me an example of a female Hobbit committing a (possible) murder?

Quote required.
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"'And I heard she pushed him in, and he pulled her in after him' said Sandyman, the Hobbiton miller."

He was referring to the drowning of Frodo's father, Mr. Drogo and his mother, Miss Primula Brandybuck.
 
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Ahh, this was just a nasty rumour - I was wanting something a little more concrete, where the circumstances were actually documented, but the intent was never proven...
 
pyan said:
Ahh, this was just a nasty rumour - I was wanting something a little more concrete, where the circumstances were actually documented, but the intent was never proven...
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I knew I'd seen this, but went down 4 wrong tangents before unearthing it. In any event, can't leave the Green One holding the challenge bag with no further contesters (and thereby thread-death!) so here's my best shot at it:

A well-known case (of a matriarch being titular head of household), also was that of Lalia the Great (or less courteously, the Fat). Fortinbras II, one time head of the Tooks and Thain, married Lalia of the Clayhangers in 1314, when he was 36 and she was 31. He died in 1380 at the age of 102, but she long outlived him, coming to an unfortunate end in 1402 at the age of 119........Lalia, in her last and fattest years, had the custom of being wheeled to the Great Door, to take the air on a fine morning. In the spring of SY 1402 her clumsy attendant let the heavy chair run over the threshold and tipped Lalia down the flight of steps into the garden. So ended a reign and life that might well have rivalled that of the Great Took.

It was widely rumored that the attendant was Pearl (Pippin's sister), though the Tooks tried to keep the matter within the family.
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The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, #214 To A.C. Nunn (draft)
 
Deep under Khazad-dûm, the Dwarves unearthed a strange casket, incised with strange runes, foretelling strange things. And lo, when it was opened by their King, inside was found a strange roll of parchment, bearing the strange title "The Revised Tolkien Trivia", describing a strange quest to reveal the strange facts about the strange world of the Master of Middle-earth. And the King picked it up, held it aloft and declaimed in a strange voice "Lo! Verily have we found it! Never again must it be lost, as it has been these strange aeons..."



Have a strange bell, Grim, and let us hear the challenge that you lay down for us...:)
 
Bravo, Grim! I've read the Letters several times, and to my shame, that one rings absolutely none of the bells with which this thread is so janglingly festooned. Unless I'd taken time to read the whole book in search of the answer, I would never have got it.
 
Thank you, gentlemen. *Eyes strange bell and wonders if it makes strange music, then decides that's a question for another time*:rolleyes:

Bilbo sneered at "dwarvish racket"; where (locale and quote, please) does this prove to be ironic?
 
Okee-Dokee.....

Well, talk about buzz kill (even the crickets aren't chirping).

And I might possibly be misleading you all, as my last hint wasn't quite as close to the locale as I thought it was (still next door!). Let's try another here, and see where it leads.

Strange words not found elsewhere in the Shire were known to have their origins here.
 
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