# The Daily Feud: All about Tolkien Feud by Elendil's Heir \[Closed\]

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 29, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667 "2008-08-29T12:56:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/1 "2008-08-29T12:56:12Z")

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If any of you have ideas for Feuds -_and would like me to score them_- PM me and I’ll get you on The List.

**DO NOT READ THIS THREAD BEFORE YOU POST YOUR ANSWERS**

Try to think of the most popular answer, to get the most people matching you. Scoring - Any answer duplicated by anyone else is worth 100 points divided by the number of entrants. For example: 50 entrant game = 2 pts per answer. If 4 people match that means they each get 8 pts for that answer. No matches = 0 points.

_ **FORMATTING OF ANSWERS IS IMPORTANT!** _

**Write your answers like this** ; Do not repeat the questions, no periods at the end of answers, no spaces between lines, no comments, no fancy list coding. If you need to comment or clarify your answers, do it AFTER the list of answers. Thanks.  
JUST LIKE THIS:

**1. answer \<\<—There is a space after the period!  
2. response  
3. rejoinder**

The game will end either when we have 50 entrants, or at **4:00 PM Central** on Saturday, 8/30/08 whichever comes first.

Good luck!

TOLKIEN (from all of his works)

1. Greatest hero?
2. Greatest heroine?
3. A memorable location?
4. Finest poem?
5. Nastiest villain?
6. Most exciting battle?
7. Coolest weapon?
8. Best comic relief?
9. Saddest moment?
10. One thing you’d change about Middle-earth, if you had the chance?

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**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/2 "2008-08-29T13:12:27Z")

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I haven’t played in a feud in a while, but this one isn’t a good one for me. My answers would look like:  
For n= 1 to 5  
(2n-1). Bilbo  
(2n). Frodo

Because those are the only character names I know, having never read them or watched the movies. 😕

Have fun you guys!

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**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/3 "2008-08-29T13:13:45Z")

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1. Sam Gamgee
2. Arwen
3. The Last Homely House
4. None, all the poems sucked
5. Balrog
6. Helm’s Deep
7. Anduril
8. Gimli
9. When Gandalf died
10. Less poems.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/4 "2008-08-29T13:17:34Z")

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1. Aragorn
2. Eowyn
3. Mount Doom
4. Bath Song
5. Sauron
6. Pellenor Fields
7. Glamdring
8. “Waste of a good apple.”
9. Gandalf falls to his death
10. More heroines

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/5 "2008-08-29T13:25:05Z")

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1. Frodo
2. Eowyn
3. The Shire
4. The one about the rings
5. Sauron
6. Helm’s Deep
7. Stinger (Bilbo’s/Frodo’s sword)
8. Gimli
9. Death of Boromir
10. It would be real!

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**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/6 "2008-08-29T13:26:02Z")

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1. Aragorn
2. Galadriel
3. Moria
4. pass
5. Sauron
6. Battle at Mount Doom
7. Grond the Battle Ram
8. Merry & Pippin
9. When Sam finds out Frodo is leaving
10. Cut Tom Bombadill

1. They’re a tag team, impossible to split. But if I have to pick one - I’ll say Merry.

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**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/7 "2008-08-29T13:34:11Z")

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I think I want to enter twice… once ofr my favourites and once for what I think will be the most popular.

Popularity can go hang.

TOLKIEN (from all of his works)

1. Hurin Thalion son of Galdor
2. Luthien Tinuviel
3. The pools of Ivrin
4. The Lay of Leithan, ost LotR version
5. Morgoth
6. Fingolfin vs Morgoth in single combat before the gates of Angband
7. Gurthang, Iron of Death
8. Sam Gamgee
9. The meeting of Hurin and Morwen at the end of the Narn i Hin Hurin
10. Tuor should never have been allowed to enter the Undying Lands

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**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/8 "2008-08-29T13:35:36Z")

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1. Sam
2. Eowyn
3. Moria
4. Gilgalad was an eleven king . . .
5. Nazgul
6. Helms Deep
7. Anduril
8. Treebeard
9. Death of Theodon
10. Get rid of Tom Bombadil

Ok, I’m ignoring the movies. I’m also ignoring everything from the Silmarillion on as I could never get into them (sorry!).

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/9 "2008-08-29T13:41:08Z")

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[QUOTE=chaoticbear]  
I haven’t played in a feud in a while, but this one isn’t a good one for me. My answers would look like:  
For n= 1 to 5  
(2n-1). Bilbo  
(2n). Frodo

Because those are the only character names I know, having never read them or watched the movies. 😕

Have fun you guys!  
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Care to join me on the couch over here? We’ll watch a movie or sumpin’. I’ll make popcorn…

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**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/10 "2008-08-29T13:41:37Z")

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1. Aragorn
2. Eowyn
3. Helms Deep
4. Poem?
5. Sauron
6. Helms Deep
7. Sting
8. Pippin
9. When Frodo leaves for the Land of the Valar, or whatever it’s called.
10. Get rid of the orchs, and other evil things. 🙂

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**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/11 "2008-08-29T13:44:45Z")

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For number 8, I so badly wanted to say Boromir, as I laugh every time I read this.

> [@Fellowship of the Ring](#):
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> “Ah, it is as I said,” growled Gimli. “It was no ordinary storm. It is the ill will of Caradhras. He does not love Elves or Dwarves, and that drift was laid to cut off our escape.”
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> “But happily your Caradhras has forgotten that you have Men with you,” said Boromir, who came up at that moment. “And doughty Men too, if I may say it; though lesser Men with spades might have served you better.”

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/12 "2008-08-29T13:49:36Z")

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1. Aragorn
2. Eowyn
3. Helm’s Deep
4. Pass
5. Shelob
6. Helm’s Deep
7. Sting
8. Merry and Pippin
9. Boromir dying having overcome the temptation of the Ring
10. All that farting about in the forest with Tom Bombabil

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**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-about-tolkien-feud-by-elendils-heir-closed/461667/13 "2008-09-02T17:33:28Z")

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Since this Feud was already scored during Amnesia Weekend, I’m closing this.