LOTR TRIVIA
 

Where did Pippin look in the Palantir?

at the towers of orthanc when wormtongue threw it at gandalf

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

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

Excactly Lostgaeriel [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Go no, please.

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. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

(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 ]

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.

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

“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.”

[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] 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"

One of my favourites has to be:

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

Does this make it my go?

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 ]

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

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: [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

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

Your turn.

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

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

And his name was Khamul... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

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

OK. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

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

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

...and white bread too.

Bere? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

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?

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?

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

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

Where was Ioreth's kinswoman from?

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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Nope!

Is it Imloth Melui??

That's right, Joy. Your turn.