The Blessing in the Curse

[The Perky Ent]

Hello everyone! If you like what if... games, you might like this :) The way the game works is, a person states a misfortune that happened to someone or something. Then, people guess the good fortune that came out of it. Here's an example:

Curse: Frodo lost a finger

The blessing is that Frodo destoryed the ring in the process! Get the idea? I hope so! Well, here's the first question:

Curse: Boromir's Death

Now what's the Blessing?

[Firefoot]

Pippin became a guard of Minas Tirith, and saved Faramir from death?

[The Perky Ent]

Close but no. The Faramir part was close though :D

[Morsul the Dark]

The blessing Faramir let Frodo go

[The Perky Ent]

nope

[Morsul the Dark]

THis is farfetched and i will explain my reasoning

Faramir met Eowyn

Faramir was Dentor's son and he thought he died so he tried to burn him Faramir met Eowyn in the houses of healing

[The Perky Ent]

That's not farfected. That's the reasoning you use for a game like this. Your really close with Faramir, but it's not with Eowyn.


And BTW, Faramir wasn't the son of Dentor. It's Denethor. (I'm just joking! Typos happen! Especially to me!)

[Morsul the Dark]

Merry he wouldn't have met merry

[The Perky Ent]

Nope. think love.

[Morsul the Dark]

Hmm...thats odd... Faramir+love=eowyn grabs book time to cheat and still get it wrong :D

Faramir met Lorith who brought forth Aragorn with "oh that thwere kings here like the days of old" so Aragorn finally trully accepted kingly responsibility((not that he didnt already have it)

[NightKnight]

Faramir finally got his father's love?

[The Perky Ent]

NightKnight got it!

[Morsul the Dark]

Good job it is so obvious now "smacks head" oh well I'll have to try again next time good game i like it

[NightKnight]

Now that wasn't too hard, was it? :p

Curse: The attack on the elven dwelling at the Havens of Sirion by the sons of Fëanor. What's the blessing?

[The Perky Ent]

Hmm...that's a tricky! I'm gonna have to work on that one :smokin: Better get in the mood.


*******************A couple of hours (aka seconds) later********************


Is the blessing that the simaril came to Earendil?

[NightKnight]

A very good guess, and quite close, but not exactly what I had in mind.

[The Perky Ent]

How about that the simaril escaped the hands of Maehdros and Maeglin?

[NightKnight]

Nope. The other question was closer.

[The Perky Ent]

Earendil was given the opportunity to become a star?

[NightKnight]

Close again, but nope. ;)

[The Perky Ent]

Elwing escaped what could of been her death?

[NightKnight]

You were closer with Earendil.

[The Perky Ent]

Hmm...uh...Earendil survived to slay Anacalagon?

[NightKnight]

Nope.

[The Perky Ent]

Earendil was able to summon the Valar?

[Gil-Galad]

Very good thread Perky


Elros and Elrond were still treated good

[NightKnight]

Perks, you got it. If the sons of Fëanor hadn't attacked, Elwing wouldn't have fled and taken the Silmaril to Eärendil, and without he wouldn't have come to Valinor to summon the Valar.

[The Perky Ent]

Sweet! Alright! Here's the next one:


Curse: Isildur kept the ring

Blessing: ?

[Gil-Galad]

United North and South again?

[The Perky Ent]

Nope, but good guess :D

[Gil-Galad]

elves regained hope in man as they fought off sauron under aragorn?

[The Perky Ent]

Um...but the ring and Aragorn comming to the throne weren't really related, so no :D

[NightKnight]

Sauron didn't get the Ring?

[Gil-Galad]

Actually, if Isildur threw teh ring in Mt.Doom, then most orcs would be mindless, so then maybe Isildurs eldest son survived, and he had a son, then only the eldest line would be king, so then aragorn would never had been king!

[The Perky Ent]

nope, and even if he survived, the fate of Eärnur would still be the same with his heirs. Well, no one really knows. It's just a what if. And this is based on fact. So, the answer is wrong. This is something that had a clear impact :D

[Gil-Galad]

Fate of Earnur? keep is mind Earnur was on Aldarions line... so Arnor probaly would still be standing... and maybe since with Sauron the Witch-King is gone so Earnur might have a different fate?

[The Perky Ent]

Maybe yes, maybe know. If you want to pursue the topic further, why don't you start a thread about it in the books? As for me, I'd like to stick to the yes or no basic the rules suggest :D

[Gil-Galad]

very well.. i;ve already gotten to Mr.Opus's bad side, i better not temper him too much...

[paavo]

the lord of the rings was written? :)

[Evisse the Blue]

The hobbits got to be the heroes of ME, they became well-known, that sort of thing?

[The Perky Ent]

No sir

[Evisse the Blue]

Aragorn met Arwen?( Once the Ring was destroyed, Elrond and his family would have left Valinor not long after.)

[The Perky Ent]

openay! orrysay! :D BTW, that's nope, sorry in Pig Lattin!

[Tuor of Gondolin]

The Free Peoples united in The Fellowship to destroy the Ring?

[The Perky Ent]

Sorry, but your not correct

[Nanedhel]

Bilbo would have died in the tunnels under the Misty Mountains?

[The Perky Ent]

Correct! Congraduations!

[Nanedhel]

Wow, really?

That caught me off guard, so I will start with a fairly easy one.

Maedhros was taken captive by Morgoth

[Tuor of Gondolin]

The exiled elves were reconciled?

[Nanedhel]

Correct, Tuor of Gondolin

[Tuor of Gondolin]

How about:

BB forgetting to send Gandalf's letter to Frodo?

[The Saucepan Man]

Because they left the Shire later than Gandalf intended, the Hobbits met Gildor and his companions, who were able to send word to Elrond in Rivendell of Frodo's plight, thus ensuring that Glorfindel was abroad searching for them. But for this chain of events, Frodo would almost certainly have succumbed to the Witch-king's blade.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

An excellent, well-thought out answer. But not what I'm thinking of. :)
And also, if Frodo had left earlier the Nine wouldn't have been in Eriador when he
was going to Rivendell. (Which would have led to a rather boring trip to
Rivendell). :D

[NightKnight]

Aragorn came with them?

[paavo]

they met bill the pony? :D

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Aragorn. Nope. I believe (?) he was going to meet the hobbits and
Gandalf anyway.

Bill the Pony? Nope. Actually, that is a possible answer, but not the specific
positive thing (at least for many people) I'm thinking of that was an eventual
plus thing that happened later relating to the letter not being sent on time.

[Nanedhel]

Frodo's delay due to the letter not reaching him on time gave the 'conspirators' a chance to formulate a plan to go with him when he left. If he had left earlier, Merry, Pippin and Sam would not have gone with him. All three played important roles later, but the main one that comes to my mind is that Pippin was involved in the death of the Lord of the Nazgul.

[Nanedhel]

:) Yoo-hoo, Tuor of Gondolin. Is anyone close to the answer, or do we need a nudge in the right direction?

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Sorry about that.
The answers above are actually much better then the rather
frivolous one I have in mind.

A clue:
It certainly helped BB professionally.

[nobody]

Gandalf blessed Butterbur's beer?

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Correct.
Although it seems a questionable boon, since Barliman was, in effect,
rewarded for screwing up having Gandalf's letter forwarded. :)

[nobody]

How about Morgoth cursing Húrin & co?

[NightKnight]

Glaurung was slain? If they hadn't been killed, Turin would probably never had been sent to Thingol, and would probably not have ended up killing Glaurung.

[nobody]

Correct :D

[NightKnight]

Anyone can have the thread...

[Vinyacoriel]

The curse: Sam almost drowned.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

The blessing: Frodo had a companion on his journey?

[Vinyacoriel]

yup.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

The curse: Nimrodel is lost on her way to the havens.

[The Perky Ent]

Amroth was lost at sea, letting Celeborn and Galadriel become Lord and Lady of Lorien, so they could guide the fellowship and help frodo