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Old 07-06-2014, 10:13 AM   #1
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I've got some ideas!

Black Cards...

- "If you say that again I shall get angry. Then you shall see _____."
- "Turin faced tragedy yet again when he encountered _____."
- "After Beren and Luthien stole a Silmaril, Morgoth replaced it in his crown with ____."
- "Short cuts make delays but inns make _________ !"
- "Tolkien actually based ____ on ____."
- "Christopher Tolkien always lived in the shadow of his father's ____."


White Cards...

- Gandalf the Gray uncloaked!
- Sauron, ironically, wetting himself as Numenor sinks.
- Fat Hobbits!
- A large patch in the hollow of your left breast as bare as a snail out of its shell.
- One of those other Inklings nobody's ever heard of.
- Charles Williams letting everyone know that he wrote a book, too!
- Blowing the Horn of Gondor.
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Old 07-06-2014, 10:54 AM   #2
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Exactly what we need!

And more of those black cards that have two or three empty spaces in them...

Like:

________, who was the fattest of the ___________.

If ___________ gets __________ then ___________ will fall. (fail?)

___________ was only saved by __________.


Or something along the lines.

I'm pretty sure we can come up with a nice "deck" of cards...
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Old 07-06-2014, 11:05 AM   #3
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Pipe Just a few off the top of my head

Black cards
-"But unless you've got ___ for ___, you've taken the wrong way"
-"Sing hey! for ___ at close of day"
-"His ___ was long, his ___ was keen, his shining ___ afar was seen"
-"He named the nameless ___ and ___"
-"The one resides in ___ of ___, the other in the purposed domination of ____"
-The liveliest Inklings meetings always involved ___
-Tolkien always maintained an abiding interest in ___
-"___ drove them on. Darkness took them"


White cards

-The staffs of the five wizards
-The bubbling of Shelob in her misery
-The contents of Gollum's pockets
-The Doom of Mandos [as an aside, I thought 'the doom of Nandos' is a good phrase to describe a bad evening out in an indifferent chain restaurant]
-The horns of Ulmo
-Mrs Artaxerxes
-The Cottage of Lost Play
-Tevildo's feline minions
-Beorhtnoth's head
-Fat Bombur, who was fat
-Bagginshield artwork
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Old 07-06-2014, 11:24 AM   #4
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-The bubbling of Shelob in her misery
Aww this is brilliant.

A note on the format (I'll edit to the opening post) - a good white card should...
  • be a verb/phrase in the -ing form.
  • be a noun/phrase/name; if an article is necessary, include it.
  • have a subject that agrees with the number of most verbs in the black cards (in most cases, I'd say singular).

black card should...
  1. work with a verb/phrase in the -ing form.
  2. work with a noun/phrase/name, potentially preceded by an article.
  3. not have an article before the blank (to avoid conflict with the white card).
  4. have a verb that agrees with the number of most subjects in the white cards (in most cases, I'd say singular).

If you're not sure, try playing your cards together in your head and see if the black+white combinations make sense.
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Old 07-06-2014, 02:20 PM   #5
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Black cards:

You give _______ to me freely
Balrogs don't have _________!
Not many people know, but Bandobras Took also invented _______
If people valued ______ and ______ over _______, it would be a merrier world.



White cards:
Nine square meals a day
One gross
Trampling your enemy's blood into the dirt
Being Good Morninged
Selling buttons at the door
Three rings for the elven kings under the sky
Seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone
Nine for mortal men doomed to die
One for the dark lord on his dark throne
A lord of the Noldor whose name begins with 'F'
Giggling helplessly at the mention of Finarfin and Teleporno
Swaggering it like a cock-o-whoop
Hearing "Not Allowed" much oftener
A Hobbit Sheriff
Bill Ferny
Fatty Bolger
The Sackville-Bagginses
Silver spoons
Sharkey's End
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Old 07-06-2014, 03:22 PM   #6
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Pipe I've got more of this

Black cards
-On silver necklaces they strung ___
-"That looks like ___ o'me nuncle Tim,
As should be a-lyin' in ___"
-The Lord of the Rings is primarily about ___
-Tolkien and Lewis never resolved their arguments about ___
-"You have looked in that accursed ___"
-There was nothing now to be done but to tighten ___ about ___
-Behold, people of the Eldar and Fathers of Men, ___ has come
-strength that would have nourished the life of many has gone forth into ___
-___ yesterday, ___ today and blimey, if it don't look like ___ again tomorrer
-I heard that one of them has ____
- Five feet high the ___ and three ___
-The doom lies in ___, not in ____
- We only wish to catch ___ so juicy sweet

White cards
- The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
- Boromir the Disco King
- The brood of Ungoliant
- Cheating at the riddle game
- Thranduil's party elk
- Celebrían's poisoned wound
- The Black Sword of Túrin
- The cats of Queen Berúthiel
- Morgoth's ring
- The Long Defeat
- A brace of young coneys
- Sacrifice in the Temple of Sauron
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Old 07-06-2014, 04:06 PM   #7
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Black Cards:

In a hole in the ground there lived _______.
For I am Saruman the wise, Saruman Ring Maker, Saruman of _______.
In a Newly discovered letter, Tolkien admits that _____ was really just ____.
Under certain moons, the runes on Thorin's map said ______.
Feanor first envisioned the Silmarils being in the shape of ______.

White cards:

Pigging out on Lembas bread.
The tongues of men.
The Sackville-Bagginses Suspicious Silver Spoon Shop.
Tom Bombadil's Funky Fresh Rhymes
Goldberry's special brand of earplugs.
Radagast the Brown in a pork pie hat.
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Old 07-06-2014, 07:51 PM   #8
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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?

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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.

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Peter Jackson's fanfiction.
Always this. It can even be used without a black card.
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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!!!
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Old 07-07-2014, 09:45 PM   #9
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In the Black Cards the stars shall die:

The little known 10th name of Aragorn was a result of _________.
Do not be eager to deal out _______ in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see ________.
Almost felt that you liked ________! That is uncommonly kind of you.
In Peter Jackson's latest Tolkien adaptation, he dedicated a three hour subplot to ______
*Gondor doesn't have _______. Gondor doesn't need _________ (Same card)
*Boil 'em, Mash 'em, Stick 'em in _______
(Boil _______, Mash _________, stick _________ in a stew?)
*"Speak, __________, and enter"
One of Led Zeppelin's lesser known songs includes a verse referencing ______
The biggest changes The Beatles would have made to their LotR movie would have been to cut out __________ and to feature _________ more heavily.


Behold the White Cards:

The Weakness of Men
The Hardiness of Dwarves
The Sta-Puft Marshmallow Orc
Scattering Barrow-treasures
The color of Legolas's hair
Blowing the Horn of Buckland
Blowing the Horn of Helm
The Pyre of Denethor
An Unexpected Party
A Long-Expected Party
The Voice of Saruman
The Voice of Pitchwife
Finding a Hobbit's foot-hair in your Lembas
Pipeweed
A Ranger who knows something of these matters
A Ranger who knows nothing of these matters
A Ranger who comes infrequently to Imladris, always smelling suspiciously of Athelas
A Conspiracy!!!
A Knife in the Dark
The Council of Elrond
A Journey in the Dark
Lothlorien
The Mirror of Galadriel
A Shortcut
Mushrooms
Meela's all-consuming love for Denethor
Eyeliner fit for a Balrog
The Eye of Sauron
The Towers of the Teeth
Not passing
Slinker and Stinker
PO-TA-TOES
Not finding a prize in your cake
Eavesdropping
Sleeping on the East side of a Barrow
A Tom-Fool of a Took
A Hobbit walking party
Rope
Letting the guide go first while you have one
Hobbit gossip
One of the finest detachable party hoods
A Led Zeppelin song
A beam of light that pierces the darkness
Mothrandir
Stars
A biker gang of Wights called the Wheel-Barrows
Ah! The spear in my heart!
One of the Newly Deceased
A Pile o' Bones
A Haunting Spirit
A Ghost Prince of Cardolan
An Animated Skeleton
A Shade of Carn Dum
The Scouring of the Shire
A hasty Ent
An Entwife
The Brown Lands
: Merisu :
Various artifacts made from Ent-wood
An epic quest
Lots of walking
One of those filthy Tarks
One of the good guys who has pale skin and grey eyes
A very large pair of boots
A Mithril bikini



*These cards don't work with all other cards, if you can think of a better wording for them go for it
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