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Urwen · 06-01-2021, 02:16 PM

Two related people performed the same kind of 'grand deed'. Who are they and how are they related?

Galadriel55 · 06-01-2021, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Urwen

Two related people performed the same kind of 'grand deed'. Who are they and how are they related?

Well, let's try the hobbit take on this one. Bilbo and Frodo both left the Shire to save Bigger People in distant lands, and returned home. Though the grand deed by Shire reckoning is as likely to be that they managed to reclaim Bag-End after all the weirdness. Relationship: errm, second cousons once removed?

Urwen · 06-02-2021, 02:04 AM

Nope.

Huinesoron · 06-08-2021, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Urwen

Two related people performed the same kind of 'grand deed'. Who are they and how are they related?

Finwe and Fingolfin are father and son and both faced Morgoth (and died).

Earnil and Earnur are father and son and both fought the Lord of the Nazgul.

Durin III is the direct (and distant) ancestor of Dain, and they both faced Durin's Bane (though only Dain lived).

Arvedui is Aragorn's ancestor; both fought the Nazgul.

Elros is the ancestor of Elendil; both sailed over the sea and founded great kingdoms of the Edain.

Beren and Tuor are, what, first cousins twice removed? Both married Elven women and had half-elven sons.

Feanor is Earendil's great-great-uncle; both sailed across the Great Sea to alter the course of the First Age at one of its ends.

Beren is many-times-great-grandfather to Isildur, and both cut a Dark Lord to get some jewellery.

Namo and Irmo are brothers, and both sang in the Music of the Ainur.

Are we following Bilbo's rules where "just guess randomly" is a viable puzzle, or is there a clue hidden somewhere in the question? I can't find 'grand deed' as a canonical descriptor, and that's the only thing that would seem to fit.

hS

Urwen · 06-08-2021, 08:59 AM

Well, the great deed is something one is famous for, while the other also happened to do it.

Galadriel55 · 06-08-2021, 11:10 AM

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Well, the great deed is something one is famous for, while the other also happened to do it.

Well, unless you're gonna be more specific, it might as well be Primula Baggins and Deagol, (very) distant kin whose most well-known life event is toppling into a river.

Urwen · 06-08-2021, 12:35 PM

Nope. These two were already mentioned, on this exact page.

Urwen · 03-29-2022, 05:30 AM

Okay, so since no one found this, it was Turin and Earendil, the Dragonslayers.

06-01-2021, 02:16 PM	#1
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,408	Two related people performed the same kind of 'grand deed'. Who are they and how are they related? __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

06-02-2021, 02:04 AM	#3
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,408	Nope. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

06-08-2021, 08:59 AM	#5
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,408	Well, the great deed is something one is famous for, while the other also happened to do it. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

06-08-2021, 12:35 PM	#7
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,408	Nope. These two were already mentioned, on this exact page. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

03-29-2022, 05:30 AM	#8
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,408	Okay, so since no one found this, it was Turin and Earendil, the Dragonslayers. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.