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Old 04-29-2003, 04:37 AM   #241
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Exactly right Saucepanssss! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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What did the Woodmen believe Gollum to be?
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Old 04-30-2003, 07:57 AM   #243
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The Woodmen said that there was some new terror abroad, a ghost that drank blood.
nasty creature.

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Old 04-30-2003, 01:22 PM   #244
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Old 05-02-2003, 12:28 AM   #245
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Approximately (fairly rough estimations accepted) how many years passed between when Isildur lost the ring and Gollum found it?
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Old 05-02-2003, 07:29 AM   #246
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2,500 years?
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Old 05-02-2003, 08:35 AM   #247
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hm... *pondering* little less approximate please...
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Old 05-03-2003, 12:52 PM   #248
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2,453....

Mind you, I did look in the Tale of Years...
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Old 05-03-2003, 03:40 PM   #249
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[img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] ok... I should have taken it the first time, then... *blushes* I had done the math wrong (why does this seem to be a habit with me?)
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Old 05-12-2003, 01:09 PM   #250
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9 Days we have waited for your question. I will try one then.

In Bilbo's first story he told of finding the ring what was the answer to Gollum's riddle "This thing all things devours"?

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Old 05-12-2003, 02:29 PM   #251
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No reason to do that, just post it here. Games should be kept in thread if all possible. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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Old 05-12-2003, 05:19 PM   #252
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The answer to the riddle was Time.

But I'll have to look it up to give you the full riddle. Ah yes, here it is:

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
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Old 05-13-2003, 05:08 AM   #253
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Well done. (And the EC was intended to be funny.) You have for the work this: Well done. Go ahead.
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What is thought to have happened to Smeagol's people?
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They moved over the Mountains, I believe

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Yes, it was thought that they may have fled the Shadow of Dol Guldur ...

... But that's only half of the answer. There is another possible fate ascribed to them. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
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They moved over the mountains and of them came the founders of the Shire?

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Yes, but there is still another possible fate ...
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Old 05-19-2003, 07:10 PM   #259
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Hint: If they didn't flee, what might have happened to them?
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They were massacred? or went more-or-less extinct?

I know where the answer is, I'm just too lazy to look. =P

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Correct, Beren. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I believe it's in one of the footnotes to the chapter on Sauron searching for the Ring in the UT.
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Go me. =P

Why did Gandalf think Gollum may be uneeded after their search for him was initially unsuccesful?
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He thought of a test by which the ring could tell if it was the 1 ring which after research he decided was to throw it in fire.

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Beren87 hasn't been online for four months and the question is two years old. You can probably just go ahead and take the question.
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ok,
How many fellowship members did Gollum probably come in contact with directly, and name them.

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I cannot resist trying an answer:

Aragorn - who captured him;
Gandalf - who questioned him;
Legolas - who guarded him;
Frodo - who was guided by him;
Sam - who quarreled with him.

So 5 of the 9?
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correct, your question

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Name two unusual experiences shared by Thorin Oakenshield and Smeagol.
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Both were imprisoned by the Elves of Mirkwood and both had their most precious posession stolen from them by Bilbo (Thorin - Arkenstone, Gollum - the Ring).
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Startlingly prompt and spot on!

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Often times the only way to control Gollum was with violence (physical or otherwise), or, more often, the threat of it. List six of these times. (Kudos and a cookie to anyone who can come up with ten - the number I found - or more! )

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Okay I think I have enough.

1. Aragorn when he captured him

2. Sauron torture into compliance

3. Sam threatening on Mt. Doom

4. Frodo in the Taming of Smeagol on Emyn Muil

5. Anborn capturing him at the forbidden pool

6. Faramir Threat of death while in Gondor if he leaves Frodo (more psychological in nature)

7. Gandalf putting the fear of fire in him while interrogating.

8. Sam in fighting him in Shelobs lair.

I can't remember right and I don't have time to look it up but there may have been some threat or mistreatment by his family to get him to leave. Also I can't remember for certain but possibly in the hobbit. I would like to know of your findings.
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Good job!

Other examples I had in mind were:

Frodo threatening Gollum with the Ring before the Black Gate that he could make Gollum cast himself from a precipice or into fire.

Frodo threatening Gollum at Henneth Annun to make him choke on the fish bones.

Bilbo "threatening" him in the Hobbit - he didn't actually make a threat but Gollum became subdued at the sight of the drawn sword nevertheless.

I didn't have the one with Sam on Cirith Ungol, though.
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As is well known our good friend Samwise Gamgee despised Gollum and gave him many unfavorable names. I was able to find at least 11 distinct names that Sam called Gollum. Out of these 11 I would consider 6 names to be easy and 5 to be difficult to find. If you can name 7 at least that is good enough, however I do want at a minimum 2 of the difficult names. Remember they are actual names not just mean things said about or to Gollum.
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Here's what I found (my eyes are burning!!)
Gollum, Smeagol, Stinker, Slinker, Mr. Gollum, old noser, villian, stinking thing,
poor wretch, nasty creature. I'm not sure if the last two count because Sam was talking to some one else when he called Gollum these.
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I'll count it. My list is as follows

Footpad
Stinker
Slinker
Villian
It
Creature (3 times w/ different adjectives i.e. nasty trecherous, dratted, trecherous murderous)
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Old Noser
False (Gray area on this one if it's an actual name or not)
Gobbler
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What was Gloin jealous about Gollum?
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Do you mean the way in which Gollum was treated better in captivity among Thranduil's people than Gloin was?
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Exactly, your go...
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At one point Frodo prophesied about Gollum. When was it and what did he prophesy?
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