Cards Against Tolkien

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Many of you will be familiar with Cards Against Humanity, a party game for horrible people as they call it. The idea is very simple - check it out on the website if you don't know the game.

So kind of like Apples to Apples, but with fill-in-the-blank?

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Can we make a CAH version...

Do NOT. use that acronym ever again. Ever since grade 11 biology, these letters stand for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Peter Jackson's fanfiction.

Always this. It can even be used without a black card.

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Under certain moons, the runes on Thorin's map said ______.
Pigging out on Lembas bread.
The tongues of men.
Goldberry's special brand of earplugs.

These are superb!!!

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

So kind of like Apples to Apples, but with fill-in-the-blank?

Yes, and without a shred of Apples to Apples' innocence. Once you go there, you can never go back.

Do NOT. use that acronym ever again. Ever since grade 11 biology, these letters stand for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.

I'm sure the creators of Cards Against Humanity would just be pleased about this.

Some more...

White cards:
The Secret Fire.
Yellow cream and honeycomb.
Passing beneath the Argonath.
Hunting Petty-dwarves for sport.
The Nauglamír.
An elf surfing on a shield.
Figwit.
Shooting the Black Arrow with a ballista.
Fifty Shades of Gandalf the Grey.
A Hobbit hole.
Keeping it secret and safe.
Coming precisely when you mean to.
A prop for old age.
Sleeping in your armour.
The Stone of Erech.
Being blindfolded by Haldir.
Shadowfax showing you the meaning of haste.
A Ring of fire.
Giving only with one hand.
Sharing the load.

Black cards:
Where there's ______, there's a way.
A staff in the hand of a wizard may be more than ______.
"I am _____, Sam."

[Galadriel55]

White cards:
Frodo's finger
Shelob's lair
Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob
Fifteen birds in five fir trees
AZOG
Barrel-rider

[Galadriel55]

Was just skimming a passage and came across this marvel of a black card:

"I sent my son forth, unthanked, unblessed, out into needless peril, and here he lies with _____."

[Nogrod]

Just spicing this up by Aganzir...

Where there's ______, there's _______.

[Eönwë]

They're taking the ______ to ________!

[Tuor in Gondolin]

To paraphrase Mrs. Eulalie Mackenchnie Shinn evaluating
The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam to Marian the Librarian
...This is a smutty thread!

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Just spicing this up by Aganzir...

Where there's ______, there's _______.

I did think about this but don't necessarily think it's better. In my opinion it will result in overly complicated sentences, most of which will be a bit of a letdown. What do you others think?

Originally Posted by Tuor in Gondolin

To paraphrase Mrs. Eulalie Mackenchnie Shinn evaluating
The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam to Marian the Librarian
...This is a smutty thread!

And here I thought we were doing our best to be good!

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Not trying particularly hard, but making a token effort at least. More so than the real Cards Against Humanity anyway, bless its obscene little heart.

Here are are some more ideas, although some of them might be a bit obscure. Nobody minds that do they? Yes? Tough.

Black cards
- Then Fëanor rose, and lifting up ___ before Manwë he ___
-Only once before have I seen ___ from afar in waking life
- ...as huge aloft like mace he hurled ___
- "But are none yet nigh us that knew of yore
That mighty ___, mark of ___"
You have nice ___ for a thief and a liar
You can hear ___ through ___ twanging
"We found ___ at the Mitre" JRRT
A Tolkien family holiday was never complete without ___
Its ___ stretched out like ___

White cards
-The colour of Legolas' hare
-Morgoth's mighty mace
-Elven hair clippings
-A careless semantic oversight
-Balrog-winging
- Gandalf's very secret diary
- Carved in the living rock
- Aredhel the bad girl
-Blaming Guinevere for everything
- Many mighty lays of men
-An evil fay in beastlike shape
-If you know what I mean
-A feast of Real Tail
- Breaking the North Pole
- Waking Durin's Bane
- A dragon in which the old fire is hot enough
- The springle-ring