# Tolkien trivia contest

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tolkien-trivia-contest/351963>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 9, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tolkien-trivia-contest/351963 "2006-04-09T15:31:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tolkien-trivia-contest/351963/501 "2006-05-02T20:18:06Z")

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> [@Little Plastic Ninja](#):
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> Is anyone else going to give a try to #247, or should I answer it?

I think at this point you should answer it.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tolkien-trivia-contest/351963/502 "2006-05-03T19:10:24Z")

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D’accord.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tolkien-trivia-contest/351963/503 "2006-05-03T19:45:41Z")

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It’s Calembel, on the river Ciril.

My extra-geeky reason for knowing this, and for most of my Tolkien minutiae – I played/play on the big huge Tolkien MUSH, Elendor. I’ve been in Gondor for about four real-life years, and one of my characters belonged to a noble house whose seat was in Calembel. I remember Googling it and discovering it was where Aragorn and his undead army camped out and had a very amused few minutes imagining my all-too-proper noblewoman looking out with some dismay at people rotting on her front lawn…

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