So the other term for athelas is not sweet galenas?
Common folk use an infusion of the herb for headaches.
And while we are grinding athelas into a figurative pulp. . .
183. What was it called in the Numenorean tongue?
- Correct.
- Sorry… just one out of three correct. Anyone else?
- Correct.
A slight tangent. From Publishers Weekly’s recap of the plot of Walter Mosley’s new book, Fortunate Son:
“White Los Angeles heart surgeon Minas Nolan, a very recent widower, meets African-American flower-shop employee Branwyn Beerman when her son Thomas is born prematurely with a hole in his lung, and without a father in his life.”
Minas makes me think of Minas Tirith (Gondor); Branwyn sounds like a very Rohanesque name to me. Wonder if Mosley is a Tolkien fan?
Glamdring, owned by Turgon, king of Gondolin (and High King of the Noldor in Middle-Earth)
OK, I misspelled the name of the sword in my haste. Glamdring, I am sure of the King of Gondolin part, so the king’s name was Turgon right? :smack: 
I don’t think there was a King Turgil except in a D&D Game I ran.
Jim
So far as I can remember, “sweet galenas” is correct. I just meant, don’t feel bad about accidentally naming Westman’s Weed instead, since I almost made the same mistake.
Correct.
Ioreth, I think.
Actually Baranduin.
- Who was the last man born in Numenor?
- The ropes the Elves of Lothlorien gave to the Fellowship were made out of what material?
- Who was the first person Tuor and Voronwe met when the reached the borders of Gondolin? (The whole valley, not just the city.)
- Who wrote the Red Book of Westmarch?
- Who said “Oh no, not another fucking elf!” when Tolkien read his work to the Inklings?
Galenas is actually the Sindarin word for pipeweed, not athelas. I don’t remember the other name for athelas, so I just looked it up.
Oh, I know I’ve been asking more questions than I’ve been answering but not everyone who answers asks a question. I also like making up the questions. I hope no one minds.
Go right ahead, let’s keep the thread going. I think we are still getting some interesting questions.
Anorien, son of Elendil
hithlum
Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, and didn’t Sam’s grandson Elfstan Fairbairn preserve it?
Correctamundo!
asea anarion as near as I can remember the spelling. There’s an umlaut in there somewhere.
- What lit the sky when Feanor reached Middle Earth?
- How many days later did Fingolfin arrive?
- How long was the siege of Angbang?
- Who forged Turin’s black sword?
- What happened to the sword maker?
- What is the name of the north western island in the 2nd and 3rd Age?
- What son of Feanor would have been associated with it?
- The sun
- Eol (?)
- He was killed by Turgon’s guards when he attempted to murder his half-Noldor son in the king’s court.
- Himling
- Maedhros (it was originally the hills in Beleriand on which Maedhros’s fortress stood)
Nice one with Himling being the old hill Himring!
170 and 174 are still open though.
Okay, I was confused with which one rose when which Noldo stepped foot on M-E…
- The Moon
- It was Eol and you just want more detail then? He was thrown from the top of the mesa on which Gondolin sat.
I know it ended in 455 of the First Age but I don’t recall when it started…
These are both almost right.
Hmm- something tells me I am conflating the younger son of Elendil the Tall: Anarion <sp> with a province of Gondor: Anorien.
I don’t remember how to correctly spell either of them however.