Random guess, 50 miles!

Guessing won't get you anywhere even if by some odd chance you get it right. HINT: These names are rare names for well-known places.

I really hate you for this one...I can't find Uruktharbum anywhere. :mad: Are you sure of the spelling?

Good call... It's actually Uruktharbun with an n rather than an m . Sorry for the confusion.

Well, i think the common names are Moria and Nindalf, but i don't know the distance between them! Um...400 miles?

Well, that made it a lot easier...375 miles?

That does help! I'll say about 425 miles

375 is correct!

Yes!
 

That one was evil...very evil.

And to relieve everyone, I will ask an easy question.

Name three places in Middle-Earth that were named after someone.

Hey it wasn't that evil... :rolleyes:
Fangorn
Cerin Amroth
Nimrodel

It was at first, when you had spelt it wrong. ;)

You're correct, and may therefore continue. :)

Hmm..
 

What made Great Gelion "greater" than Little Gelion?

More water flowed through it?

Blast! Ye saw through me trick. You were supposed to say that it was longer (which it isn't), but No.. you had to go and be smart and give the right answer, didn't ya? :D

Of course...I actually checked the length too. :p

How far is it from Meneltarma to Andunië?

250 miles as the crow flies.

And if it flies back home, it's 500 miles. But then it would crash into that big mountain there. :p So if you help the poor bird, it's your turn. :p

Shoot, thats a really long way for a bird to fly. Though hummingbirds can make it across the Gulf of Mexico... bah who cares? (Cept for the fish that jump up and eat 'em) So now that this has nothing to do with Geography, I shall now ask a question.

Take the area of the lake around which Fingolfin settled. Add that to the area of the lake near the place that Gandalf used his influence to help keep Sauron from seeing Frodo. Then subtract that by the area of the lake in which lie the rotting bones of another big lizard. This number is the area of a lake in what region?

Jeez, you really like making these things hard for me, don't you?

Well, Fingolfin settled around lake Mithrim... The lake close to Gandalf? Nen Hithoel? Nindalf? Lizard Lake is of course the Long Lake. And the sizes of those things...? Wild shot: Nurnen?

Mithrim, Nen Hithoel, and Long Lake are correct. But the crucial final answer is not... :p

Nenuial? Helevorn?

No and no. The number is exact which intrigued me and prompted me to ask this question.

Where do you find the numbers? Just measure on a map?

The Atlas of Middle Earth. But yes it is possible to estimate by measuring. Thats what got me to look it up.

I think I'll give up on this one. Too hard for me, but it is a great question. :)

Georgraphy AND Maths??!!
 

Lake Mithrim is 256 sq miles.
Nen Hithoel is 244 sq miles.
Long Lake is 93 sq miles.

256 + 244 - 93 = 407, the area in sq miles of Lake Linaewen in Nevrast.

Of course, my finding the answer has nothing to do with my owning a copy of the Atlas of Middle-earth. :rolleyes: ;)

Geography and Maths.. you're darn right! I couldn't resist the temptation to put a spin on it. In any case, you are correct. And of course, that book had absolutely nothing to do with your answer. You are just that good at measuring shapless lakes on maps.. :rolleyes:

Next up
 

When it comes to maths, adding and subtracting a few numbers just about stretches me to the limit. :rolleyes:

Name three areas (excluding any part of Mordor) that became barren wastelands in consequence of evil.

Hey I never said you couldn't use a calculator! ;) :D

Places left desolate by evil:
Ard-Galen (Anfauglith)
Dale (Desolation of Smaug)
Dagorlad*
Hollin
Field beneath the Party Tree in Hobbiton.**

*I don't know if this counts a a part of Mordor or not because its so close.
** A little small to count as a region, but it could work...

I'll give you Anfauglith and the Desolation of Smaug.

But Dagorlad was not, as I understand it, "changed" by the Battle of Dagorlad. It was a dry dusty plain bordered by marshes before. I don't really picture Hollin as a barren wasteland. And as for the Party Field, well just no. :rolleyes:

So I still need one more ...

Yeah I didn't expect those to work; I had hoped that at least one might make it. But now I feel rather silly that I didn't think of the Brown Lands straight away... :rolleyes:

Actually, the other one that I had was the Withered Heath, but the Brown Lands fits the bill admirably.

So now you get to go. :)

Geographical One Thing in Common
 

What do these places have in common?

Caradhras
Ealges' Eyrie in Eastern Misty Mts.
Tol Sirion
Esgalduin

they were all visited by gandalf?

they are all located in or around mountain ranges?

It is much more in depth than that. Something happened at or near these places.
And no, Gandalf was never recorded being at Tol Sirion or Esgalduin.

hmmm, im pretty sure this is wrong but...

at least one of the rings of power have passed through one of these places at some time?

Tol Sirion and Esgalduin were well under the Sea before the formation of the Gwaith-i-Mirdain, so those wouldn't fit. Sorry. :(
HINT: Death

Oh the mournful howl ...
 

Death of a Wolf or Wolves (at or near all of these places).

Caradhras: The Warg that attacked the Fellowship in Eregion (killed by Gandalf).
Ealges' Eyrie in Eastern Misty Mts: A number of the Wargs who, with the Goblins, had Thorin & Co trapped in the trees (killed by Gandalf).
Tol Sirion: Draugluin (killed by Huan).
Esgalduin: Carcharoth (killed by Huan)

The Man of the Pans has it!