LOTR TRIVIA

[Telchar]

Where did Pippin look in the Palantir?

[Tz-Mc]

at the towers of orthanc when wormtongue threw it at gandalf

[Telchar]

NO - where did he look "in" the palantir, not "at" it....

[Lostgaeriel]

Pippin looked into the Palantir at the camp teh Rohirrim made at the glen or dale at Dol Baran.

[Telchar]

Excactly Lostgaeriel smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif Go no, please.

[Lostgaeriel]

Took me some time to come up with this one. But I'm always trying to work these things out as I read LOTR anyway to get a real sense of scale. (And it's partly the engineering student in me!)

Assuming that Frodo’s estimate of the height of the cliff at the Emyn Muil, and Sam’s estimate of the length of the Elven rope were the actual measurements, to 1 decimal place, how much longer than the cliff height was the rope? Please give the answer in feet, to two significant figures. smilies/evil.gif

(Rather convenient that the first place that the cliff was low enough and easy enough to climb, they found that their rope was just the right length for the job, and that finally there were tree stumps on which to tie the rope. Mmmmm. Proof for the non-existence of God?)

[ November 12, 2001: Message edited by: Lostgaeriel ]

[The Laurenendorian]

Well, it depends on what sort of ell he is talking about. Assuming the English ell; 45 inches:

30 * 45 = 1350 inches

18 * 72 = 1296 inches

Leaving a deficit of 54 inches, or 4** and a half feet.

[Telchar]

HI Lostgaeriel - there is of course many proofs of the non-exsistence of god... I like thisone better smilies/biggrin.gif

“The Babel fish,” said The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quietly, “is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy not from its carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel
fish.

“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

“The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’

“`But,’ says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’

“`Oh dear,’ says God, `I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.

“`Oh, that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

“Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo’s kidneys, but that didn’t stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his bestselling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God.

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloddier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

[Eowyn of Ithilien]

smilies/smile.gif that whole series is brilliant!!!!
I like the "It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realised that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass"

[Kin-strife]

One of my favourites has to be:
The mattress globbered. This is the noise made by a live, swamp dwelling mattress that is deeply moved by a story of personal tragedy. The word can also, according to The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary of Every Language Ever, mean the noise made by the Lord High Sanvalvwag of Hollop on discovering that he has forgotten his wife's birthday for the second year running. Since there was only ever one Lord High Sanvalvwag of Hollop, and he never married, the word is only ever used in a negative or speculative sense, and there is an ever increasing body of opinion which holds that The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary is not worth the fleet of lorries it takes to cart its microstored edition around in. Strangely enough the dictionary omits the word 'floopily', which simply means 'in the manner of something which is floopy'.

[The Laurenendorian]

I think that the babel-fish reference was implied in his first post.

Does this make it my go?

[Lostgaeriel]

WOW! What a lot of HHGTTG fans there are here! (Telchar: You're sharp. It was the Babel Fish proof that I was thinking of in my aside!)

The Laurenendorian: You answered the LOTR question correctly. So your turn.

[ November 13, 2001: Message edited by: Lostgaeriel ]

[Telchar]

JRR Tolkien and Douglas Adams (Both late smilies/frown.gif ) is the only writers that I enjoy reading over and over again for completely different reasons smilies/biggrin.gif jygnantonix anyone??

[The Laurenendorian]

Who, or what, was 'Summerfilth'?

[Telchar]

Summerfilth was as I understand it an imagenary month used in the Shire expression ‘on Friday the first of Summerfilth’.. In the Shire calendar no month started on a Friday - Can you imagine Bilbo going: Hi Lobilia, See you on Friday the first??? smilies/biggrin.gif

[The Laurenendorian]

Is the correct answer - I love that phrase. smilies/smile.gif

Your turn.

[Telchar]

who visited the old gaffer on the night Frodo left the Shire? (Please, be precise)

[Eowyn of Ithilien]

a Black Rider...who enquired after a Bagginssss...and the Gaffer doesn't like ironmongery whether it where's well or no

[Beregond]

And his name was Khamul... smilies/smile.gif

[Telchar]

Sorry Eowyn smilies/frown.gif but I have to give it to Beregond smilies/wink.gif

[Beregond]

OK. smilies/smile.gif

When Faramir talked to Denethor after he came back from meeting Frodo, what was the first thing brought to them? smilies/biggrin.gif

[Lostgaeriel]

Wasn't wine brought to Faramir when he first sat down to report to Denethor?

[Pippin]

...and white bread too.

[Theodred21]

Bere? smilies/smile.gif

[Marileangorifurnimaluim]

Technically, as there was no brazier of hot coals during Pippin's first audience with Denethor, but the chairs were set around a brazier in the discussion with Faramir, the brazier had to have been brought first. But the wine was next.

How picky do you want to be?

[Watcher in the Water]

Okie Doke... I will revive this little baby just cause i want to ask a question...

Easy one - How old was Lobelia Sackville-Baggins when she was imprisoned?

[Bruce MacCulloch]

more than a hundred

[Watcher in the Water]

Thats how i remembered it... continue...

[Bruce MacCulloch]

Did Tom Bombadil have wings? And who was the Balrog of Moria?
Just kidding. Here's the question:

Where was Ioreth's kinswoman from?

[Watcher in the Water]

Yes Tom Bombadill had wings, they sprouted whenever he smoked the "Peace Pipe" and the Balrog of Moria was actually a shy spirit called Colby...

And I cant remember properly where Ioreths kinswoman was from so I will take a stab and say Lossenarch (spelling i know... its almost home form work time on a friday so i think i could be excused!)

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[Bruce MacCulloch]

Nope!

[Joy]

Is it Imloth Melui??

[Bruce MacCulloch]

That's right, Joy. Your turn.