Natural History Quiz

[Lostgaeriel]

We need more quiz threads, but this is all I could come up with for now. Let's all study the Natural History (animal, mineral, vegetable) of Middle Earth and points West.

To start:

Name and describe a flower that grows in Rohan.

[Telchar]

Simpelmynde the white starshaped little flower that grew on the graves of the kings - also called 'Everwhite' eller 'Oilos' (from memory - so may be miss spelled) because it grew all year.

[Lostgaeriel]

Close enough, Telchar! Great memory. Your description is exactly right.

I have the names and spellings as Evermind and Simbelmynë from LOTR. And I see from The Silmarillion that those names would translate to Oiolossë - "ever-snow-white".

Your turn!

[Telchar]

+ it was the same flower that grew on Fingolfins grave...

An easy one:
Bregalad, the ent - which tree did he look like and what kind of tree did he have special care for?

[Cirdan the Shipwright]

Was he an elm? (or was that beechbone?)

- Cirdan / Maglor68

[Turambar]

He sang to the rowan trees, is that the answer?

[Telchar]

Hmmm I cant find the discription of him reffering to any tree - as I thought I could smilies/frown.gif But I allways saw him as a birch or a beech - still Turambar gets it for remembering the rowan trees which loss he morned

[Turambar]

Which character(s) in LotR take a rest in a stand of bay trees, and where?

[Telchar]

Frodo and Samvise in Ithilien

[Turambar]

Yep ! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Telchar]

what is the first 'growing' thing that is mentioned in LOTR (not including the foreword and prologue) ?

[Maltagaerion]

I'll take a stab at this and say 'potatoes'

[Lostgaeriel]

Oh Telchar, you devious Dwarf!

It was Bilbo's cousins!

But he had no close friends, until some of his younger cousins began to grow up.

[Telchar]

Maltagaerion gets it because this is a 'Natural History Quiz' which I judge to concern 'the plant-kingdom' and I did have the Gaffers potatoes in mind.

Still Lostgaeriel came up with a very brilliant and creative answer - I like that too smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Maltagaerion]

Sorry for the delay guys, a massive load of overtime work was dumped on me hehe.

I'll give you guys an easy one: What did Sam plant in the Party Field?

[Eowyn of Ithilien]

the seed of a mallorn tree which Galadriel gave him in Lothlorien

[Maltagaerion]

Kudos! your turn Eowyn smilies/smile.gif

[Eowyn of Ithilien]

What's the "favoured" orcish mode of transport? *apologies if that's ambiguous*

[ January 19, 2002: Message edited by: Eowyn of Ithilien ]

[Lostgaeriel]

The "favoured" orcish mode of transport related to Natural History??? Trampling growing things? Guessing.

'No other folk make such a trampling,' said Legolas. 'It seems their delight to slash and beat down growing things that are not even in their way.'

[Eowyn of Ithilien]

alllllright what animal are they known to have ridden on

[Marileangorifurnimaluim]

Wolves!

[Marileangorifurnimaluim]

Wolves! Or more specifically, Wargs.

[Eowyn of Ithilien]

lol yes smilies/smile.gif I hope that counted as natural history; it was all I could think of at the time