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What did the High-Elves call the constellation Orion?

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 Jun 2000

I believe the Vanyar called him Menelmacar.
Anyone who wish to double check me, I got this from Pg 48 of the 1977 Ballantine Books edition of the Silmarillion.


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Re: New quiz thread - 1 Jun 2000

That's right, Gondolin. And the Sindarin form was Menelvagor.

Good answer. Your turn!


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Re: New quiz thread - 1 Jun 2000

Who was the king of the Numenoreans who broke the Ban of the Valar?

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 Jun 2000

It was Ar-Pharazon, the Golden One.

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 Jun 2000

Aha, Old Man, you guessed right.
Sorry, you don't get what's in my pockets, but you do get to ask the next question.

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Alright,
what was the real name of the Old Took?

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Bandobras Took?

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Gerontius Took.

I looked it up in The Barrow-Downs Encyclopedia just to be sure <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)">

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

That is it, Gerontius. (It is only mentioned in the Tale of Years as far as I know). Actually it bears much resemblance to the Latin word &quot;geronticos&quot; meaning after the manner of an old man. Talking name again...

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

What gift did Gandalf give to the Old Took?

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Oh, was he the one with the diamond cufflinks which opened only at command? I think he was, and I think Gandalf gave them to him (?).

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

That's right - diamond studs that fastened and unfastened on command. Your turn, Sharku.

btw... your image is not showing up... you might want to check that.

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Thank you, but my image looks fine (I fixed it).
Alright, I try a real riddle I translated from my German version of the Poetic Edda (bear in mind that this excludes answers from ME alone):
Resolve the riddle I rhymed!

Explain to me the wonder
I saw in front of Delling´s door:
Who is the mighty
that passes over meadows?
Water and woodland he devours:
Wind he fears,
Yet not the valiant,
The halo of the sun he harms.

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Melkor?



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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Nay. As I said, no Middle-Earth-related answers, it´s a general thing or person which exists in our place and time, too.
Although, I must admit, it was a good guess, and your answer would fit, Manwé standing for the wind, the only one Melkor could fear...

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Since noone has tried to answer this for a long time, I´ll turn it into a multiple choice question.
The possible answers are:
a)night
b)greed
c)fog
d)the moon

This thread should not be forsaken imho.


btw, does noone of you have the EDDA to look it up from? What a pity.


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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Fog is the only answer that would fit. What do greed, the night, and the moon have to fear from wind?
Though I don't quite see how fog could harm the sun... usually if there's sun it burns away the fog.
And no, I don't even know what this Edda is so...



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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Yes, fog is correct, and what is meant by the xpression that it hurts the light of the sun is, imho, simply the point that the sun appears darker through it.
As for the EDDA (I don´t want to brag about it,but...), it is the collection of old-Icelandic songs, poems, lore- and hero-tales, and religious Viking chants which were indeed an influence to Tolkien - almost all names of dwarves are taken from there.

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

wow i didnt know that
but i always wanted to read the edda but never got it <img src=frown.gif ALT=":(">
i once loved the viking tales and tales about the northern gods...then i turned to Tolkien hehe

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Hmm so I guess it is now my turn?

This is only sort of ME related, but what song contains the Tolkien inspired line: &quot;There's a feeling I get / When I look to the West / And my spirit is crying for leaving / In my thoughts I have seen / Rings of smoke through the trees /
And the voices of those who standing looking.&quot;




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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Good job!
Your turn.

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Re: New quiz thread - 1 June 2000

Who said:
<blockquote>Quote:<hr> The time of my thoughts is my own to spend.<hr></blockquote>
and what were the circumstances of the quote?

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Clue #1

This quote was repeated at the Council of Elrond.

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Re: Clue #1

Bilbo?

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Re: Clue #1

Ah, when I read the passage where Glóin reports, it dawned on me: it was Dáin II, answering to the messenger from Sauron, who asked him to make his mind up quickly.

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Re: Clue #1

Very good, Sharku! That one was kind of tricky <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)">

Your turn!

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Who said:
&quot;We shall meet bitter cold, if no worse, before we come down on the other side. It will not help us to keep secret that we are frozen to death.&quot;
Not too hard, is it <img src=wink.gif ALT=";)">

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Re: Clue #1

Gandalf when the Company was crossing Caradhas, got stuck in the snow, and had to come back down and go through Moria.

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Re: Clue #1

It was Boromir, I believe.

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Re: Clue #1

Boromir is correct (he´s the one with most alpinistic experience, so to say...)

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A Silmarillion question

How was Eol put to death?

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Re: A Silmarillion question

He was cast over the Caragdur, a precipice in Gondolin.

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Re: A Silmarillion question

That one was too easy I guess. Good answer. Your turn!

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Re: A Silmarillion question

Ok then.

When Turin and Beleg were hiding on Amon Rudh, what did the surrounding area become known as?

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Re: A Silmarillion question

Dol-Cuarthol, the Land of the Bow and the Helm.

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Re: A Silmarillion question

Nice answer.

Your turn.

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Re: A Silmarillion question

What is the Dwarvish name of Nargothrond?

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Re: A Silmarillion question

The answer is Nulukkizdin.


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