Did your idjit son not destroy a magical artifact when he really should have? - Elendil, not Erendil, but close enough (and the son was Isildur, of course)
Were you Arwen’s husband, once crowned? - Yes, Elessar FKA Aragorn
Were you, as far as we know, their only son? - Yes, Eldarion
Swept me!
IQs:
Were you the former Rosie Cotton’s best-known daughter?
Did you, unguarded and all by yourself, take the train to Oberlin during WWII to speak to a youth conference?
Did Emma Thompson play you in an Ang Lee-directed movie?
IQs:
1. Were you not related to but played by Julia Roberts?
2. Were you not a living planet, but teleported someone from the red one?
3. Were you a scientifically-minded person who didn’t live in New Jersey, and developed a new model of the atom?
Were you the former Rosie Cotton’s best-known daughter? - Elanor, Rosie and Samwise Gamgee’s kid
Did you, unguarded and all by yourself, take the train to Oberlin during WWII to speak to a youth conference? - Eleanor Roosevelt (amazing to me that they wouldn’t send along at least one Secret Service bodyguard during wartime)
Did Emma Thompson play you in an Ang Lee-directed movie? - Elinor Dashwood, in the 1995 Oscar-winning film Sense and Sensibility
El- - -r x3!
DQs:
Novel won a Pulitzer or other major prize?
Movie starred someone already well-known?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Were you a corrupt evangelist with the same last name as an aerospace structure?
Did Johnny Depp play you opposite Winona Ryder?
Did your ship become what we know as Venus?