Tolkien trivia contest

Galdor is correct.

10 questions for anyone.
63) Name the 13 Dwarves of Thorin’s Party.
64) Who were the Youngest, Oldest and Fattest?
65) What day was the secret door capable of being opened from the outside?
66) Which Elf injured Morgoth?
67) Who was the primary Ring Smith?
68) Who were his Father & Grandfather?
69) What River did Tharbad sit on?
70) Name Shadowfax’s most famous forebear.
71) Orthanc had two meanings, what were they?
72) If you were trapped in the Barrow-downs, how would you summon help?

  1. What is the Halcaraxe? Do you mean Helcaraxe? The Northern Ice sheet that the Host of the Noldorians under Fingolphin had to cross and where many perished. This was because the Sons of Feanor burnt the ships.
  1. Durin’s Day
  2. Fingolfin
  3. Celebrimbor
  4. Curufin and Feanor
  5. The Baranduin
  1. Balin, Dwalin, Fili, Kili, Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, plus the man himself.

  2. Fili, Balin and Bombur.

  3. Durin’s Day.

  4. Fingolfin

  5. Celebrimbor

  6. “Mount Fang” or “The Cunning Mind”

  7. I wouldn’t, 'cos Tom never taught me the rhyme - which oddly enough I can’t remember OTTOMH :slight_smile:
    Re: 58… I remember it 'cos it’s mentioned as a stopover in “The Tale of Years”.

69 is wrong, I just noticed I misspelled Fingolfin in my reply to your question :smack:
The others are correct.

  1. Greyflood

Tolkien spelled it that way in the earlier drafts, IIRC, so no foul there.

Thanks, I still know better than to use the non-standard spelling. Oh well.

Mal: Your right on all, though a man that can remember Hall 21 should be able to memorize a simple little rhythm. :wink: I’m weird, I committed it to memory when I was 11 and I have never forgot it. But then I once had a nightmare in my early 30’s and I was being attacked by a ghost and I remember to Cry out “A Elbereth Gilthoniel” at which point the ghost left and my wife woke me up to find out why I was shouting in a strange language. :smiley:
That brings me to another question.

  1. What does “A Elbereth Gilthoniel” translate to?

“O, Elbereth Star-kindler”, IIRC.

O Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna miriel
galadhremmin ennorath.

And that’s all I ever remember offhand.

The next line is:
na-chaered palan diriel!
(spelling may be off, this is from memory)

Other random lines (also fraught with missspelling and I’m sure variously wrong):
Fanuilos, la linnethon
nef aeir, si nef aeiron!
O Menel aglar elaneth

I’ll sit out answering the other stuff, unless noone’s gotten an answer by this evening. Then I’ll take a stab at 'em.

And noone’s answered my “Bagronk” question!!

Forty-one. or forty-two.

Let’s get some more questions put up. Answer a question, ask a question. That was Elendil’s Heir’s Rules. :wink:
73) Who was the Elendil’s Heir?

Jim

Jim, apparently. :slight_smile:

Okay, I’m guessing Aragorn, but I dont’ remember if that Capitalized Epithet was ever applied to him as a unique descriptor. Otherwise, I’d have to say Isildur, since the kingship of Arnor devolved upon him at Elendil’s death at Barad-dur.

And I still have unanswered questions out there, so I’m passing.

Thank you! I’ve often wondered about that. I figured from the context that “Gilthoniel” was a title for Elbereth, and I knew that the root “gil” meant “star” (which makes sense, of course, for a title for Elbereth/Varda), but I never knew what the “-thoniel” part meant.

  1. What were four other names for Gandalf, among various peoples?

Tharkun, Mithrandir, Stormcrow, Olorin (if we count Ainur as a people)

Well Faramir knew his name was Olorin in the West but we could also add in the Grey Pilgrim IRC.

Wormtongue calls him “lathspell” (“ill news”), but that’s more of an epithet than a name.

Amateur etymology: “spell” = “news” looks like it’s straight Middle English; cf. “godspell”/ gospel/ “good news.”

Forty-two. But that was the question to the answer which I had already provided. :cool:

  1. When Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas were served lunch by Pippin and Merry, in what respect were they better provided for than Theoden and Gandalf?

Longbottom PipeWeed. Ah Yes. Much better provided for indeed.

  1. My wife would like to know, What has it gots in its pocketses?