If This is the Answer, What is the Question?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

This game is quite simple to play, rather harder to explain. I had concidered doing this in the Quiz room, but I thought it would be much better and funnier if it were posted here.

Basically, it involves the posing of an answer to which a question must be found. Like Crazy Captions, one will be posted, preferably in bold and italics and underlined so it stands out, and then anyone can throw in suggestions for what the question could be. Make them Middle Earth related, amusing and most of all, fitting to the answer. Here are some examples...

Some one poses the answer

"45 Million"

One suggests:

"How many orcs would it take to actually kill one of the main characters?"

Another says:

"Exactly how many strands of hair did Galadriel give to Gimli when he next came to Lorien?"

And so on until we exhaust the possibilities of that answer and then someone else can pose another one for us to have fun with. Make sense? Didn't think so.

Here is the first answer...

"Four hundred Horses."

What is the question?

[Finduilas]

Sounds fun!

So:

How many horses would it take to fill up the Dead Marshes so you could walk across it dryly?

Sorry it's such a morbid question, but it's the first thing I thought of...

Idea: After a few people give questions, the person who gives the answer tells which is right. Just an idea.

[Eönwë]

Smaug's breakfast

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Another possible question:

What would it take to distract Théoden long enough for you to steal his beard?

Idea: After a few people give questions, the person who gives the answer tells which is right. Just an idea.

Maybe. :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

The amount of horses that Eomer gave to Aragorn after the WR!

I'm sorry... that was a bad one wasn't it....:(

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Perhaps it could be...

What are the contents of Eomer's wardrobe?

[Lalwendë]

"What on earth could Gimli have eaten to pass that much wind?"









Or don't give the real answers, just go for surrealism, always good :D

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I think the question has to be...

What is actually in pipe weed?

;) :p

[Hookbill the Goomba]

No more offers?

Well, okay then, here is a new answer:

About nine years.

What is the question?

I was thinking...

How long would the hobbits like for breakfast?

You can still offer for previous answers by quoting them, of course.

[Eönwë]

How long does it take an ent to say hi?

[Folwren]

How long it takes an ent to tell you what he thinks your name should be. (I was going to say how long it takes him to tell you his name, but then I realized, it would probably be a bit longer.)

[Meneltarmacil]

The length of time between baths for Movie-Aragorn.

OK, here's another answer: 99 bottles of beer on the wall

[Hookbill the Goomba]

About nine years.

Q: How long did Legolas spend in front of a mirror before leaving mirkwood?

99 bottles of beer on the wall

If all the hobbits left the Shire, what would be left?

[Alonna]

99 bottles of beer on the wall

What does Thranduil use to decorate his bedroom?

[The Elf-warrior]

99 bottles of beer on the wall

What is Pippin's favorite song?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

99 bottles of beer on the wall

When the young Hobbits began excavating the cellar of Bag End, what did they find?

OR

After four hundred and fifty years, at what point was Treebeard at with a song the Hobbits taught him?

[Eönwë]

99* bottles of beer on the wall

What was left after Merry and Pippin raided Saruman's supplies?

*empty

[Eönwë]

Ok I have an answer:

"6200"

I was thinking:

"The number of trees in fangorn"
"The amount of beers a hobbit goes though per year"
"The number of orcs Aragorn has killed"

(Sorry, I just don't feel creative)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

"6200"

Is it...

"What was the weight, in tons, of Bombur when he died?"

Or

"How Many times did Gandalf Uncloak during his stay in Hobbiton?"

[Eönwë]

Just to get this moving:

Freshly cooked orc

[Folwren]

Nasty joke this, but in question to:

Freshly cooked orc

I'd ask:

"What did Treebeard serve to Saruman when he was guarding him in Orthanc?"

:eek:

[Hookbill the Goomba]

What was Sauron's idea of a romantic dinner?

OR

What was used to make Bilbo's Birthday cake?

[Eönwë]

Maybe...

What counts as one of your five a day?

What is the most nutritious nack in the world?

What is a balrog's favourite meat?



(maybe I will go with Lal's surrealism, for example, What are giraffes?)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

What is in Sauron's handbag?

[Eönwë]

What is in Sauron's handbag?

Sauron has a handbag???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Why not:


(as Fungoltch and Shcmurt would say) Køm nåsteÿ Saüron æt? (I think, correct me if I spelt anything wrong Hookbill)

or

What grows on every eat-me-not tree?

[Folwren]

New answer:

Because he didn't want to.

[Mithalwen]

Question: Why didn't the balrog cross the road? (They have wings *ducks* so can sub for chickens :p)

[Eönwë]

Why didn't Sauron kiss Morgoth?

[Beregond]

Why did Gollum destroy the Ring?

[Eönwë]

Why didn't Aragorn wash?

[Eönwë]

The answer is now...

Pink

[Beregond]

What colour was Aragorn's scabbard?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

What colour was Saruman before he decided 'many colours' would be better?

OR

How did a stoned Gandalf reply when asked 'How many fingers am I holding up?'

[Eönwë]

What colour was Barad-dur before it got dirty?

[Shastanis Althreduin]

What color is Legolas's underwear, secretly?

[Lindale]

Next to black, what is Turin's favorite color?

[Eönwë]

If Sauron could talk to Peter Jackson, what colour would he have asked his Eye to be?

[Eönwë]

Ok, we shall have a new one:

A barrel of beer

[Hookbill the Goomba]

What were the Entwives hiding in?

OR

What was also an acceptable answer to the riddle of the door of Durin?

[Eönwë]

What was the only thing that survived the sacking of Gondolin?

or

What wasn't left after Merry and Pippin marauded Saruman's storehouse?

or

What would the dwarves have gone to laketown in if Bilbo had been in charge?

or

What did Gandalf keep under his cloak?

[Kent2010]

What do people like to roll down the Falls of Rauros in?

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

What those trolls were really made out of.

[Eönwë]

How about:

Treebeard's chin

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

The cure for all ailments.

[Eönwë]

What did Melkor tell Sauron was their greatest threat?


-------or------

Which of these weapons killed the most orcs?

A. Hurin's sword
B. Tuor's axe
C. Durin's Hammer
D. Treebeard's chin

[Hookbill the Goomba]

- Where did Merry lose his hat?

- Where is the largest settlement of rats in Middle Earth?

- Where has the light of the sun never penetrated?

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Okay, lets have a new answer, shall we?

Hobbit Feet

[Laurinquë]

And the hottest selling item on the black market today is . . .

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Hobbit Feet

Q: What did Aragorn find when rooting through Elrond's wardrobe?

[Oddwen]

Okay, lets have a new answer, shall we?

Hobbit Feet

What type of measurement is used in the Shire?

[Shastanis Althreduin]

What did Aragorn's brooch smell of after it was returned to him?

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

A common delicacy in Gondor (before the war of the Ring anyway) was...

[Galadriel55]

The Mouth of Sauron gave Gandalf two pairs of...

or

What made Cirith Ungol stink so much?

or

What was Smeagol's favourite snack (after fish)?

or

What did Gandalf find hanging on a tree in Crickhollow?

or

What do you usually see hanging on clotheslines in the Shire?

[Galadriel55]

If it wasn't Elves or Dwarves that upset Caradhras, what did anger it so?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

What did Aragorn foolishly traid all of Gondor for?

[Galadriel55]

What gave Frodo and Sam away in Mordor when they pretended to be orcs?

[Galadriel55]

What has so much hair on it that you can hardly see it*?

*Except for a Dwarf's chin:D

[Galadriel55]

What did Gimli hear tiptoing behind him in the Paths of the Dead, the place where any nightmare can come true?

*poor Gimli. That Pippin must really have driven him nuts!:D*

The thing about Bilbo that offended Smaug the most was...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

A new answer, I think...

In Sauron's Bathroom.

I think it's...

Where was the One Ring actually forged?

Or

What was the last place Shelob was ever trapped?

[Galadriel55]

In what room of Angband was Morgoth hiding when Eonwe won the War of Wrath?

Where is the foulest stench in ME?

[Bom Tombadillo]

Where was the first Evil Ainur Club meeting held?

Lousy, I know, but it's a hard answer.

[Evisse the Blue]

What is the one place in Middle Earth where Gandalf hasn't been in?

yeah, that's kinda dumb :o

[Hookbill the Goomba]

All right, let's have a different answer then...

Four Hundred Miles.

My guess is...

How tall will Hobbits grow if they drink all the Ent Draughts in the world?

OR

How long was the scroll detailing the Blue Wizards' adventures? :eek:

[Galadriel55]

If you stack orcs on top of each other, how tall would a stack made of the orcs of the battle of Gondor be?

How deep was the well in Moria that Pippin through a rock in?

How long will Gandalf's beard be in another thousand years?

Total distance that the hobbits of the Shire together travelled in a milenium.

How far did Ancalagon fall after Earendil poked him?

When Sam thought that Caradhras was Orodruin, how far was he from the truth?


Gonna try to come up with something better soon...;)

[Galadriel55]

What distance would Bombur have to jog in order to get rid of all the extra weight?

[Galadriel55]

ONLY ONE

How many drinks did Denethor have beforehe set himself on fire?
*looks skeptical at the answer*

How many orcs know how to count past 10?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

ONLY ONE

How many baths had Aragorn ever had before becoming king?

OR

How many computers with an internet connection existed in Middle Earth at the end of the Third Age? :eek:

[Bom Tombadillo]

How many days was Gandalf in ME before he became addicted to pipe-weed?

OR

How many Rules (:eek:) did the Hobbits inadvertently obey upon their return to the Shire?

OR

How many times did the Ents try to form a soccer (football for all you silly non-Americans out there) team?

[Galadriel55]

How many times in his life does an average Man die? :eek:

[Eönwë]

How many times did the Ents try to form a soccer (football for all you silly non-Americans out there) team?
How many times has someone called football soccer and survived? :p

[Galadriel55]

How many Sharkeys were there in the history of the Shire?

How many books did Radagast read during all his time in ME?

How many men of dared to argue with Helm Hammerhand?

[Galadriel55]

What did Gandalf keep under his cloak?

~A: A barrel of beer

So that's why he uncloaked so often! :D:cool:

[Galadriel55]

ONLY ONE

How many people tried presenting Sauron with a fake Ruling Ring?

[Galadriel55]

I feel like randomly selecting a randomly new random answer.

Pippin

~~~

The root of all evil?

Who stole all of Gandalf's stores of pipeweed?

Gollum the Second?

[Ronpaul]

The bulk of horses that Eomer gave to Aragorn afterwards the WR!

[Galadriel55]

Pippin

Spammer? :Merisu: