1.
M ASTER SAMWISE - A Time Lord, a fool? He chooses.
2.
E - Earn ill an elvish title, but outside the youngest asks: he fairy enough?
3.
R INGBEARER - Engulf a dubious panda for one who's missing one.
4.
I NCANUS - In the south, the pages could say what Tolkien got.
5.
A RAGORN - Haughty? Not entirely: say rather he knows where he's going.
6.
D WARF - Not one of the six (or seven?), but of their kind: forget his name and say what he is.
7.
O ROPHER'S GRANDSON - Born green and grey: one to his name, but whence the other? Not just his father's son.
8.
C APTAIN OF THE WHITE TOWER - Son of the last to rule; by title he could sail inland from the Havens, but find only one.
It took me a
long time to fit all nine members of the Fellowship into a single riddle.
Now, I thought the panda wasn't a proper bear, but apparently since at least the 80s we've had DNA proof that it is a true ursid. That's the giant panda; the red panda is a musteloid, so related to weasels, skunks, and raccoons. (Also there are apparently only 8 extant bears, including
the Sloth Bear with its goofy ears.)
I'm pretty sure we know exactly four names of elves living in the Woodland Realm: Oropher, Thranduil, Legolas, and Galion the butler. Given the low numbers of unmarried women mentioned in the Silmarillion, I don't think there's even a hint at who Oropher's wife might have been... unless someone wants to make a case for Nellas, stalker of Turin?
Hey, we know she liked unusual people, so a Sinda who would trek across two mountain ranges to live as king of the Silvan folk isn't out of the question...
(She might have to be Thranduil's wife instead, though; as the builder of his Halls, he probably remembered Menegroth personally.)
hS