Words!!!!!!

[Assasin]

Hey dudes, thought I'd start a new thread. Okay, I've got a new game, at least I hope it's new. I'm gonna write something that has to do with LotR, and someone else has to look at the last letter of the word/phrase and write a word that begins with it, you can't reuse any words. Sound fun? I'll do the first one: Gilgilad.

[Shelob]

Gilgalad-->Denethor

[Lindolirian]

Sounds like this thread (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=4074). But, er... check out the last post. :rolleyes:

[The Saucepan Man]

Well there have been threads like this before and, yes, they have been closed for not being sufficiently challenging.

But I don't see the problem in a little light relief if people want it, so I'll let it pass ...

Edit: I've (re-)closed that old thread. But along the lines of the game that was being played there, it might make this game a bit more interesting of each person was to say a little bit about the character, object, event etc that they name.

[Assasin]

Rohirrim.

[The Saucepan Man]

*Ahem!*


... it might make this game a bit more interesting of each person was to say a little bit about the character, object, event etc that they name.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

And perhaps the person starting a game could limit it in some way (1st, 2nd, 3rd age; or kelvar, or a particular race, or a location, etc.)?

[Assasin]

Oh, okie dokie. Rohirrim, the army of Rohan. It has to be a race.
Is that what you guys mean? And, S_M, I didn't know what you meant, so, yes you did type loud enough.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Well, "It has to be a race" for Rohirrim I would take to mean answers
should be one of a group (of more then one) of sentient Middle-earth
races (and not individuals?). If so, then how about:

Men of the Three Houses

as a continuation?

That is:
Rohirrim
Men of the Three Houses

[Assasin]

Silmeril. A stone thing. ;)

[The Saucepan Man]

It has to be a race.

Silmeril. A stone thing.Hmm, this doesn't seem to working does it?

But let's give the thread one more chance. The next word has to be a race or group of peoples, it has to start with 'L' and a reasonably detailed description (ie one or two sentences rather than one or two words) should be provided.

Any ideas as to when the theme should change? (If this thread ever makes it that far, that is).

[Eruanna]

I'll try this one :)

Laiquendi: Also known as the Green-elves of Ossiriand. Elves of the First Age, originally Nandor they came from the East and, led by Lenwë's son Denethor, they crossed the Misty Mountains. They finally settled between the Blue Mountains and the River Gelion in the Land of The Seven Rivers, also known as Ossiriand.

[Shelob]

I'm not responding because I can think of a race that begins with 'I' but more to respond to The Saucepan Man's question of
Any ideas as to when the theme should change? (If this thread ever makes it that far, that is).

you could have it so that once no-one can think of another within the category (so once no-one can think of another race in this case) the theme gets changed. It's only a question of whether the new theme gets named by the last person to get an answer in the last theme or by the person who began the thread originally.

It's just an idea...but it might help to give some structure to this.

[The Saucepan Man]

Good idea Shelob (and welcome to the Downs, by the way :) ).

If no new answer has been given after ... say 5 days ... then the person who gave the last answer can start with a new subject.

I'm suggesting 5 days because it is well within the 10 days after which anyone can start with a new subject.

Let's go with that. :smokin:

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

I'll offer this for the letter "I".

Ithryn Luin - the two Blue Wizards who were lost in the East long before the War of the Ring. Their names were Alatar and Pallando.

I was going to say Istari, but it just lands us back in the same position with "I", so hopefully since there were two Blue Wizards they can be a very small race unto themselves. ;)

I rather like the idea of this thread, if it can get off the ground. It might develop into an interesting little game.

Sophia

[Firefoot]

Naugrim - aka the Dwarves. Translated as "The Stunted People."

[ohtatyaro]

Moriquendi - Elves of the Darkness' or Dark Elves

But since it ends us with I again, (I'm sorry, could not think up anything without I on its end :(), I suggest we can use the ending S of Common Speach translation)

Or, Besides answering, I propose a modification too - if the ending letter is the 'hard one' (say, i or q), let it be allowed to use the last letter of the translation, eh?

:)

[The Saucepan Man]

Although the point of the game (as it has developed) is to try to gain control of the thread by setting a difficult end letter. In other words, the "winner" on any one theme is the person who provides an answer which cannot be followed. On that basis, I suggest that the actual end letter used in the answer given should be the one required to start the next word.

[ohtatyaro]

Does it mean that if in 5 days nobody comes up with I-race, I wil change the theme?

[The Saucepan Man]

Precisely. :cool:

[Eruanna]

How about Isengarders? The name given to Saruman's Uruk-Hai by the other orcs as they quarrelled about what they should do with Merry and Pippin.

[piosenniel]

The Elves sometimes used this term for the race of Men because they suffered from old age and death:

Sickly

[ohtatyaro]

Yrch - the name Lorthlorien elves had for orcs :)

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Halethrim, the last of the Edain to cross the Blue Mountains.

[ohtatyaro]

Men

simply Men :). I mean, it's a race, isn't it? Mor than just men of three houses, but including those :)

[piosenniel]

Nameless Things

Far, far below the deepest delvings of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

--Gandalf; TTT; The White Rider

[Eruanna]

Shepherds of the Trees, known to men as Ents and to the Elves as Onodrim. Ent the earthborn, old as mountains.

[piosenniel]

Stunted People

Elvish name for Dwarves - translation of Naugrim

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Eldar- a group name for all the elves that began the great journey from Cuiviénen.

Is it worth mentioning that each answer shouldn't be used more than once within a theme?

[Assasin]

River Folk.
What Smeagol and Deagol were.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Kelvar one of the two basic types of being created at the beginning of Arda. Kelvar were animals, whereas their counterparts, the Olvar were plants.

[ohtatyaro]

Ring-wraiths. They are not technically the race, but they are not merely men either?

[Celebuial]

Southrons- They joined Sauron's armies in the War of the Ring. (They do not have Mumakil- I got that wrong. Mumakil come from harad. Sorry!)

[ohtatyaro]

Sindar the Grey-elves. The name was applied to all the Elves of Telerin origin whom the returning Noldor found in Beleriand, save for the Green-elves of Ossiriand. The Noldor may have devised this name because the first Elves of this origin whom they met with were in the north, under the grey skies and mists about Lake Mithrim; or perhaps because the Grey-elves were not of the Light nor yet of the Dark (Avari), but were Elves of the Twilight

[Eruanna]

Rangers of the North. Aragorn's people, the last remnants of the Dúnedain, those of the faithful who had escaped the drowning of Númenór.

[ohtatyaro]

We had men already, but I suppose if one can found another name for them, it is OK? I mean, we will run short of words if only one race would be acceptd.

So, it is Hildor 'The Followers', 'The Aftercomers', Elvish name for Men. For pbvious reasons :)

[piosenniel]

Rógin

Rohirric term for the Druedain, the Woses.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Nibin-noeg - the petty-dwarves, the last of whom lived at Bar-en-Nibin-noeg on Amon Rudh.

[Eruanna]

Gwaith-i-Mírdain ~ People of the Jewel-smiths. The name given to the fellowship of craftsmen in Eregion, the greatest of whom was Celebrimbor the maker of the Three Elven Rings.

[piosenniel]

Will Nazgûl work as a self-limited race?

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Nandor, the Telerin Elves daunted by the Misty Mountains. From this race came the Wood-elves of Mirkwood and the Galadhrim of Lórien.

[piosenniel]

So, Nazgul was a 'NO'?

[Assasin]

Nazgul would work as a race. They're an endangered species, and dangerous...
;) I wonder, would you count nine dudes as a race? you could, I guess. :)

[The Saucepan Man]

Actually, I think the topic should be relatively strictly drawn - otherwise it could go on for much longer than it should.

I don't think that Nazgul - or Kelvar for that matter - should count (sorry pio and Sophia).

The topic is races or types of peoples. The Nazgul cannot really be described as either, being a limited number of 'created' undead creatures.

Anyway, the next letter is 'R' ...

[ohtatyaro]

Than may it be counted, if I add in people (subjects?) of Rhudaur? I mean, it was an independent country at one moment (part of former Northern Kingdom), so, probably its people thought of themselfs as Dunedain and Rhudaurians, or something? The next letter would be R again, though

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Snow-trolls- mentioned in passing, apparently trolls that lived in the north, where there was snow. :p

[ohtatyaro]

One question (mainly because I find it hard to find race on S ;), but not only becuase of that) - if race is in English plural, it inevitably has an s on end. So most of what we come up with would be starting with s. I have a suggestion than - maybe it's better to have words that are not in elvish plural, like sindar, in english singular? I know it means I have to change Rhudaurians to mere Rhudaur in that case, but as Sophia already answered, let it start with ehr Snow Trolls? I mean, it will be Snow Troll, and the next should be L?

THe question is to moderator. I believe I mean Saucepan Man here :)

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Sophia is not moderator, but she'll venture an opinion. There are lots of plurals ending in "s", but the goal of the game is to land someone with a letter they can't use. We don't want to stay on races forever. So as soon as the "s" words have been exhausted the topic will change, and who knows whether that will be something where plural is relevant.

Saucy says?

Sophia

[The Saucepan Man]

Saucy says?... put your hands on your head.

Ahem!

I agree with Sophia. Plurals stand.

[ohtatyaro]

Silvan Elves, than. Also called Woodland Elves. In origin those Nandorin Elves who never passed west of the Misty Mountains, but remained in the Vale of Anduin and in Greenwood the Great, later Mirkwood

[Eruanna]

Stoors: A breed of Hobbit. Broader and heavier in build, they had large hands and feet. They preferred flat lands and riversides. Said to be less shy of men, they lingered by the banks of the Great River Anduin before moving north.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Just kidding. But congratulations just the same.

Stone-trolls Yet another sort of troll, this time the kind that Bilbo & co. encountered west of Rivendell. Stonier now than before. ;)

[Eruanna]

Solosimpi another name for the Sea-elves, also known as Teleri.

[Linnahiril Tinnufinwen]

Inscrutable: One of the many Elvish names for the race of Men

[Shelob]

Ents--an ancient race of tree herders that reside in Fangorn Forest. Only three of original Ents remain, the rest have become 'treeish' while some trees have become 'entish'.

[Gil-Galad]

woops, Southrons have been used...

Secondborn - also men, the secondborn of Illuvatar

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Numenoreans- the Edain who became inhabitants of the Island of Numenor; or later, after its destruction, the descendants of the men of Numenor.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Seems time has passed for a new theme. Which as the last poster I get to pick :D

Hows about the next theme being: Dwarves (all answers must be names of dwarves, places and events related to dwarves, or objects associated with dwarves, clear?)

She begins:

Dain- the cousin of Thorin who came in from the Iron Hills just in time for the battle of Five Armies and who became King Under the Mountain after him.

[Gil-Galad]

Nain I, son of Durin of Moria, slain by the balrog after its awakening

[Eruanna]

Narvi: Dwarf of Khazad-dûm, friend of the Elven jewel-smith Celebrimbor. Narvi made the West-gate of Moria (the one that gave Gandalf and the Fellowship so much trouble) :rolleyes:

[Nirvana II]

Ibun son of Mim. Petty-dwarf. Shared the House of Ransom with Turin andthe outlaw band.

[Gil-Galad]

Nauglimaur: Necklace of the dwarves, created as a gift to Finrod Felagund of Nargothrond

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

(Eldarin Cirth.)

Writing system of the Dwarves. Example is Angerthas Moria.

Oh, and Nirvana II: Я понимаю. :cool: Well, at least a little.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Stunted People- a collective name for the dwarves. Bit offensive, really. ;)

[Eruanna]

Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, where Thrain I, son of Nain became the King under the Mountain. In Erebor Thrain found the Arkenstone.

[NightKnight]

Roac, the friendly raven of Erebor.

[Linnahiril Tinnufinwen]

Children of Aule: A name for Dwarves, who were created by Aule the Smith during the Years of the Trees.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Esgaroth or Laketown, where Thorin and Co. first went for aid on their quest.

[NightKnight]

Hadhodrond, another name for Moria.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

All those Dwaves who descended from Durin the Deathless, and dwelt in Khazad-dum in the First Age.

[ohtatyaro]

Khuzdul - Dwarvish language

[Celebriel Esgaledhel]

Mirrormere, that which Durin looked into.

[Eruanna]

Welcome to the 'Downs Celebriel :)

The object of this game is to continue the theme by using the last letter of the previous word.
So the next word should begin with an L.

Lóni: a Dwarf who fell in Moria when the orcs took the bridge at Khazad-Dûm.

The next word should begin with an 'I' :)


Thanks Gil-Galad :rolleyes:

[Gil-Galad]

shouldn't it be an I?

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

The Longbeards, dwellers of Belegost in the Lost Tales.

[Eruanna]

Seven Fathers of the Dwarves: Made by the Valar Aulë. Illúvatar would not allow them to become the Firstborn, he decreed that they should sleep under stone until such time as the Elves awakened.

From The Silmarillion

'stone-hard, stubborn, fast in friendship and in enmity, and they suffer toil and hunger and hurt of body more hardily than all other speaking peoples; and they live long, far beyond the span of Men. yet not forever...'

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

The Third Thorin's title. He was the son and heir of Dain II Ironfoot, King under the Mountain and King of Durin's Folk.

[arcticstorm]

mithril, or moria silver, was the principal object mined by the dwarves in moria. the only other place it is found is on the island of numenor. It is the most precious metal in the world

[Firefoot]

Lord of Moria, two of which were Durin and Balin.

[Gil-Galad]

Anzulbizar- the area where the Gate of Moria is

[wilwarin538]

River Running- river floating down from Erebor

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Son of Glóin. Elf-friend and member of the Fellowship of the Ring.

[Galadriel55]

There is a settlement of dwarves there. Dain II ruled there until he came to Erebor with his army to help Thorin, where he was instead proclaimed King.