Trivia

[Grond]

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Re: Grond

<img src=biggrin.gif ALT=""> Perfect answer, enep. Ask away!

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[enep]

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Fingolfin

How many times did Fingolfin swipe Morgoth with his blade before being smote to the ground by Grond? <img src=wink.gif ALT="">

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[Grond]

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Re: Fingolfin

<img src=biggrin.gif ALT=""> Seven times that dirty elf swiped my glorious Master.
<img src=roll.gif ALT=":rollin">

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[enep]

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Ask

<img src=laugh.gif ALT=":lol"> That is correct Grond. Ask us!

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[Grond]

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Re: Ask

Which was the biggest tree of Neldoreth?

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[Mithadan]

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Re: Ask

Hirilorn?

--Mithadan--
"The Silmarils with living light
were kindled clear, and waxing bright
shone like stars that in the North
above the reek of earth leap forth." </p>

[Grond]

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Re: Ask

Hirilorn was. Ask us, Mithadan!

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[Mithadan]

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Re: Ask

Name an elven port in Middle Earth after the First Age other than the Grey Havens.

--Mithadan--
"The Silmarils with living light
were kindled clear, and waxing bright
shone like stars that in the North
above the reek of earth leap forth." </p>

[Sharkû]

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Re: Ask

I know of a small nameless elven port at the Belfalas from which Amroth and Finduilas wanted to sail west.

<h6> A furore Normannorum / libera nos domine / summa pia gratia / nostra conservando / corpora et custodia / de gente fera / normannica nos / libera quae nostra / vastat deus regna </h6></p>

[Mithadan]

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Re: Ask

The port near Belfalas is not nameless.

--Mithadan--
"The Silmarils with living light
were kindled clear, and waxing bright
shone like stars that in the North
above the reek of earth leap forth." </p>

[enep]

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Ports

Although it may not count as a port; Pelargir.

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[Sharkû]

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Re: Ports

Edhellond it would be what I meant.

<h6> What still of desease in me found sleep / I tore it out with my firm hand / And threw it, laughing, steep and deep / Down into the snow-covered land </h6></p>

[Mithadan]

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Re: Ports

Sharku gets it! Ask on.


--Mithadan--
"The Silmarils with living light
were kindled clear, and waxing bright
shone like stars that in the North
above the reek of earth leap forth." </p>

[Sharkû]

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Re: Ports

When did the Edain reach Númenor?

<h6>'Spring is all around you / and calls your name softly in the wind / Burning when the day is dying / she kills the rays of a boundless sun. / And falls after years of death / eternally on your tears of joy. / So feel, feel the hands of glory / that will lead you into a golden sea.' (Kirlian Camera, 'Ascension') </h6></p>

[Orald]

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Re: Ports

In the Second Age, <img src=smile.gif ALT=""> I am going to let someone else get this one<img src=wink.gif ALT="">

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[enep]

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How nice

<img src=laugh.gif ALT=":lol"> Too kind D, too kind. c. 32 Second Age. <img src=wink.gif ALT="">

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[Sharkû]

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Re: How nice

correct.

<h6>'Spring is all around you / and calls your name softly in the wind / Burning when the day is dying / she kills the rays of a boundless sun. / And falls after years of death / eternally on your tears of joy. / So feel, feel the hands of glory / that will lead you into a golden sea.' (Kirlian Camera, 'Ascension') </h6></p>

[enep]

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Tooks

Congrats on 600 posts, Sharku! Milestone after milestone <img src=wink.gif ALT=""> Argh! I had a really good question that I thought of during a boring class but have now forgotten. So while I'm trying to conjure up that question again: Name the Took who was responsible for building the Great Smials.

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[HerenIstarion]

Isengrim II

[enep]

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Go!

Yup. Shoot, H-I!

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[HerenIstarion]

How many people were invited to Bilbo's party 2941 T.A.?

[Sharkû]

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Re: Go!

None, all were unexpected guests?

<h6>'Spring is all around you / and calls your name softly in the wind / Burning when the day is dying / she kills the rays of a boundless sun. / And falls after years of death / eternally on your tears of joy. / So feel, feel the hands of glory / that will lead you into a golden sea.' (Kirlian Camera, 'Ascension') </h6></p>

[Odysseus819]

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Re: Go!

No I think Galdalf was invited (the previous day, when Bilbo was flustered), so I'll say &quot;1&quot;.

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[HerenIstarion]

Yes, one is correct, for Gandalf was indeed invited, as opposed to dwarves who came uninvited

[Odysseus819]

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Re: Go!

Who said: &quot;Further counsel I cannot give, nor may I go further on your road.&quot;

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[Voronwe]

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Re: Go!

I think it was Huan, to Beren and Luthien.


-Voronwë
<font size="2">"For Aldarion had become enamoured of the Great Sea, and of a ship riding there alone without sight of land, borne by the winds with foam at its throat to coasts and havens unguessed; and that love and desire never left him until his life's end."</p>

[Odysseus819]

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Re: Go!

Voronwë is correct, it was the 2d time Huan spoke with words. Voronwë's turn to ask.

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[Voronwe]

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Re: Go!

What used to stand on the hill above Umbar, and what event did it mark?


-Voronwë
<font size="2">"For Aldarion had become enamoured of the Great Sea, and of a ship riding there alone without sight of land, borne by the winds with foam at its throat to coasts and havens unguessed; and that love and desire never left him until his life's end."</p>

[Sharkû]

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Re: Go!

If I recall correctly, the Numenoréans raised there a pillar as the sign of their victory over Sauron under Ar-Pharazôn...

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[Voronwe]

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Re: Go!

That is, of course, the correct answer.


-Voronwë
<font size="2">"For Aldarion had become enamoured of the Great Sea, and of a ship riding there alone without sight of land, borne by the winds with foam at its throat to coasts and havens unguessed; and that love and desire never left him until his life's end."</p>

[Sharkû]

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Re: Go!

Who lingers yet in a fading town?

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[Sharkû]

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Re: Go!

It's in a song, and, I have shamefully forgot to add, from HoME.

Further hint: the town is Kortirion...

</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000003>Sharku</A> at: 2/20/01 2:50:04 pm

[enep]

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Re: Go!

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> &quot;Thou art the inmost province of the fading isle
Where linger yet the Lonely Companies.
Still, undespairing, do they sometimes slowly file
Along thy paths with plaintive harmonies:
The holy fairies and immortal elves
That dance amoung the trees and sing themselves
A wistful song of things that were, and could be yet.
They pass and vanish in a sudden breeze,
A wave o bowing grass--and we forget
Their tender voices like wind-shaken bells
Of flowers, their gleaming hair like golden asphodels.<hr></blockquote>

The answer, then, would be 'the Lonely Companies,' holy faeries and immortal elves. Thankyou for introducing to me that poem Sharku (The alt codes are stuffing up, Opera 5 doesn't have an 'insert symbol' option and IE always crashes. ACK! <img src=smile.gif ALT=""> ) it truly is one of Tolkien's more beautiful and melodic writings.

Not to say it's the only one <img src=wink.gif ALT="">

- enep</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000041>enep</A> at: 2/21/01 2:53:37 am

[Sharkû]

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Re: Go!

Well, then, I'm glad.
Not least because someone answered after all <img src=wink.gif ALT="">
Ask us, ênêp!

<h6>Ah, listen to them... the children of the night... what sweet music they make...</h6></p>

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Re: Go!

<img src=eek.gif ALT=":eek"> What's that freaky pic you have, Sharku? It's positively scary.

It took me a while to find that song. <img src=smile.gif ALT=""> Ok, to continue with an easier trivia question:

According to Gandalf, what was the thing that [Balin] and the dwarves came back to Moria for?

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[Odysseus819]

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Re: Go!

wee they looking for one of the seven dwarf rings? Thror's maybe/

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[Grond]

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Re: Go!

I think Odysseus is correct <img src=frown.gif ALT=""> , but I can't help answering that they were looking for mithril. <img src=smile.gif ALT="">

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[Odysseus819]

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Re: Go!

Yeah I think you're giving me that one -- Gandalf says right in &quot;Journey in the Dark&quot; that they came back for mithril. I was remembering the part in &quot;Council of Elrond&quot; where G. says that Balin went away partly in search of Thror's ring. But I'll take your reply as meaning &quot;close enough&quot;.

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[Grond]

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Re: Go!

<img src=biggrin.gif ALT=""> I think enep didn't expected two valid answers when he made this easy question <img src=biggrin.gif ALT="">

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[Odysseus819]

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Re: Surprising News

So here's my Q -- everyone probably remembers the scene in Bilbo's room after the Council of Elrond, when Bilbo jokes with Gandalf that he (G.) had been surprised at the news that Gollum had escaped, and G. says with typical arrogance that he knew all about it, was the only one at the Council who was not surprised by anything, etc. etc. But what was reported to Gandalf at the Council that DID surprise him?

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