Tolkien trivia contest

Greater than the entire value of the Shire

Fathers of Horses, their chieftain at the time of the War of the Ring was Shadowfax

The thread that would not die!

  1. Who, as part of his/her dialogue, says the words of the title in the movie “The Fellowship of the Ring”?
  2. Who, as part of his/her dialogue, says the words of the title in the movie “The Two Towers”?
  3. Who, as part of his/her dialogue, says the words of the title in the movie “The Return of the King”?
  4. What was Gil-Galad’s favorite weapon (“personal” name and type)?
  5. What did the weapon’s name mean?

Elrond.

Were there any other Mearas named besides Shadowfax? (I don’t know the answer, if there is one.)

A spear named Aiglos, which none could withstand.

Snow-point

Eorl the Young’s Horse was Felarof and a Mearas.

  1. What was Gil-Galad’s real name?
  2. Whose son was he per the ‘canon’?
  3. Whose son was he per other JRRT writings?
  1. ???! He had a title or honorific of Erinion I think.
  2. Son Odereth or Orodreth son of Angrod son of Finarfin youngest son of Finwe who was of course Son of none.
  1. Who was Earwen?
  2. What does her name mean?

I think this thread might be Elvish, it does not die. :wink:

Tom B. and it means Eldest

Right you are! Also sometimes spelled “Aeglos,” IIRC.

Correct; he says the words “The Fellowship of the Ring!” at the conclusion of the Council at Rivendell.

  1. His father name was Artanáro, his mother namewas Gil-Galad, meaning “Radiant Star”, and his title was Ereinion, meaning “offspring of kings”.
  2. Son of Fingon in Sil, it gets complicated after that. Son of Orodreth, who in some versions was the son of Finarfin, but in others the son of Angrod.
  3. Earwen was Galadriel’s mom. I have no idea what her name means. She was the daughter of Olwë, and thus the niece of Elu Thingol.

She huh? :smack:

I was just reading on Gil-Galad last week and I went back to look at what I remembered just now.

  1. Might help is I give her name as Eär wen. Both pieces of her name are fairly common.

I think you are thinking of Iarwain

Jim

This was already asked by me and answered by you a few pages back. :wink:

Eärwen means sea-maiden.

Most of 225 has been answered except that no one mentioned Finrod, who is the only other elf besides Glorfindel who’s reembodiment after death has been mentioned. In the Silmarillion, it says he walks with his father in Eldamar, and it’s also alluded to in the Lay of Leithian (given in HoMe), I think.

  1. Who’s Dior? (Hint, not a fashion designer…)
  2. What was the name of the refuge in Ithilien where Faramir took Frodo and Sam and what does the name mean?

Son of Beren and Luthien(and Elrond’s grandfather)

Henneth Annun, Window on the West

  1. Where does one go to hunt the kine of Araw?

What’s the longest thread ever? Are we getting close? :slight_smile:

I know I’ve seen threads over 1000 posts. I was in one that went to 1003.
The What if Someone else wrote the Lord of the Rings thread is extremely long as far as text goes.

Jim