The Slain Game

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Probably a rather easy game, borrowed from elsewhere:

The name is given of a person or creature killed in LOTR, The Hobbit, Unfinished Tales, or The Silmarillion. Identify the slayer and where slain, if given, and it's your turn.

To start:

Lotho Sackville-Baggins

[Radagast The Brown]

Grima, in the Shire. Stabbed him I think?

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Correct. Your turn.
Hmm. Did Wormtongue bury him or dispose of him in, ah, some other way? (no need to answer, only Grima knows).:eek:

[Radagast The Brown]

Duilin of Morthond.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Duilin:

killed during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields (by Easterlings)?

[Radagast The Brown]

He was killed in the Pelannor Fields, not by the Easterlings though.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

By oliphaunts?

[Radagast The Brown]

Yes.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Alright. How about:

Draugluin? :eek:

[Radagast The Brown]

Slain by Huan. In Minas Tirith.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Correct. Of course Huan's still got Morgoth's little pet to deal with.

[Radagast The Brown]

Dior.

[Falagar]

Slain by Celegorm and Curufin's people (he himself slayed C&C himself, I think) in the ruins of Doriath.

[Radagast The Brown]

Correct.

[Falagar]

Háma.

[Artanis]

Háma fell in the battle of Helm's Deep, defending the gate. I suppose he was killed by orcs.

[Falagar]

Right you are. :)

[Artanis]

Uldor.

[Falagar]

Slain by Bor (or one of his sons, but I'm going for Bor) in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

[Artanis]

He was slain in the Nirnaeth all right, but not by Bor or his sons.

[Valandil]

Doesn't this game seem a bit... morbid?? :p

[Artanis]

Why? :p
Do you know who slew Uldor?

[Valandil]

Originally posted by Artanis
Why? :p
Do you know who slew Uldor?

No! :mad: Don't even remember who he is! :confused: Can't even solve your stinkin' quote!! :eek:

:D

[Falagar]

Maedhros then. :p

Uldor the accursed.

[Artanis]

Not Maedhros, but you are very close. :)

Waiting for Val to solve my nice little quote. :D

[Falagar]

Maglor then? Or was it one of the other sons? May have been Celegorm. :rolleyes:

[Artanis]

Maglor is right. :)

[Falagar]

Can't remember any good ones, Guthláf?

[Radagast The Brown]

Another one from Rohan?

killed in Pelanor (sp.) fields. Is the one who slained him mentioned?

[Falagar]

Don't think so, no. You're right. :)

[Radagast The Brown]

Meiglin.

[Diamond of Long Cleeve]

Is that the same as Maeglin? If so, Tuor threw him off a rock at the Fall of Gondolin.

[Radagast The Brown]

Yes. :o You're right.

[Diamond of Long Cleeve]

How about Snaga?

[Radagast The Brown]

He was killed in Minas Morgul, by Sam. I think.

[Diamond of Long Cleeve]

Yes, slain by Sam. Well, it was Sam's fault that he fell down the trap door.:cool:

[Radagast The Brown]

Gwindor.

[luinilwen]

i find these ones really hard - he wasn't the one killed by the heralds of Angband, was he? i'm bad at remembering battle thingys...

*edit* i'm thinking of the guy who had his limbs cut off and was then beheaded (rather gruesome!). was this at the start of the nirnaeth arnoediad (did i spell that right? "tears unnumbered"). I'm thinking of the wrong person, aren't I? :p

[Tuor of Gondolin]

I don't think Gwindor was killed in the Nirnaeth, but he was an elf in the First Age. I think there's a picture of him in a book I have "The Pictures of Tolkien" where he's being rescued by Beleg in Dorthonion (after escaping from Angband?). But I think he was sick and never really recovered. Don't recall who killed him, though. I believe he went to either Gondolin or Nargothrond so probably died in the battle for one or the other? Or at the havens down south.

[luinilwen]

this was bugging me so i looked it up, and i was kind of close. i was thinking of gelmir, gwindor's brother. i didn't look up gwindor, but i won't post for this one, just in case i subconsciously cheated! :p

[Radagast The Brown]

Originally posted by Tuor of Gondolin
I don't think Gwindor was killed in the Nirnaeth, but he was an elf in the First Age. I think there's a picture of him in a book I have "The Pictures of Tolkien" where he's being rescued by Beleg in Dorthonion (after escaping from Angband?). But I think he was sick and never really recovered. Don't recall who killed him, though. I believe he went to either Gondolin or Nargothrond so probably died in the battle for one or the other? Or at the havens down south. All is correct; and he indeed died in a battle in Nargothrond - battle of Tumhalad.
Your turn Tuor.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Actually, I thought my observations were too general.
But as Barliman Butterbur probably observed when Bill got back to Bree "Never look a gift pony in the eye."


How about Folca?

[Captain Stern]

The Boar of Evelhort?

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Very good. Your turn.

[Finrod Felagund]

I'll go if that's ok!

Amroth...

[Radagast The Brown]

The sea slained him.

[Finrod Felagund]

Correct! It's slew...but thats ok

[Radagast The Brown]

Originally posted by Finrod Felagund
Correct! It's slew...but thats ok Thought something is wrong :p

Feanor.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

A bunch of balrogs?
In Hithlum? during the First Battle of Beleriand.

[Radagast The Brown]

Hmmm... but who gave the last strike? That is the one I'm looking for.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

By the leader of the pack, Gothmog.

Vroom, vroom, vroom.:cool:

I guess nobody remembers classic rock.:D

[Radagast The Brown]

Correct, Tuor. Your turn. :)

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Who and where terminated Scatha the Worm?

[Finrod Felagund]

Shoot! The name evades me, but it was an ancestor of Eorl right?

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Originally posted by Finrod Felagund
"The name evades me, but it was an ancestor of Eorl right?"
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Yes. Which is a hint as to where the dragon was slain.

P.S. I've always thought the name "Finrod Felagund" one of the most melifluous in Middle-earth, but then, languages and their sounds were a foundation for Tolkien's writings. In H. Carpenter's "Biography" he's quoted as saying he just liked the sound of words like "cellar door", irrespective of their meaning.

[Radagast The Brown]

Oh... Scatha is a dragon... right. Would the one who slew him Frumagar?

[Tuor of Gondolin]

RTB: You're close. It was one of the Eotheod, in the area between the Gladden and the Carrock, and Frumgar led them there. But it was someone else with a similar sounding name who killed Scatha a century later. Okay, I looked some of that up.:)

[Radagast The Brown]

Frum? ;)

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Yes! It's Fram. Wonder if he was around later, and available, if he could have handled Smaug for Bilbo.:)

Your turn.

[Radagast The Brown]

:eek: Fram, is it? I would never guess it.

Folcred. (a hard one, I must add)

[Old toby's wicked weed]

Actually, I thought my observations were too general.
But as Barliman Butterbur probably observed when Bill got back to Bree "Never look a gift pony in the eye."


How about Folca?


suprised me be mr Tuor.

why not look the horsey there? where lookm at a horse? be you saying him a funny person be?
:confused:

[jammi567]

Turin.

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

Anglachel.

[jammi567]

:confused: :confused:

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

His sword.

[jammi567]

yes.

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

Ancalagon.

[Radagast The Brown]

Earendil?

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

Correct

[Radagast The Brown]

Ecthelion.

[ecthelion]

Gothmog lord of the Balrogs

[Radagast The Brown]

Yup. Your turn. :)

[ecthelion]

Dernhelm? :p

[ecthelion]

Sorry, not slain, I was really tired yesterday.
Beechbone ?

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

The killer isn't specified, but Beechbone was killed by a liquid fire from Orthanc.

[ecthelion]

I think by the time Beechbone was slain, there was only one being remaining inside Orthanc. (Saruman the BhuraroomHumboombor...)
But I give you the points anyway.

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

Thingol?

[Radagast The Brown]

Dwarves? Of.. Nogrod??

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

Correct

[Radagast The Brown]

Finduilas.

[Finrod Felagund]

Slain by the orcs who captured her. Pinned her to a tree. (Though inadvertedly Turin caused her death when he built that darn bridge.)

[Radagast The Brown]

Yeah. :)

[Finrod Felagund]

Who slew...Ungoliant?

[jammi567]

herself

[Finrod Felagund]

Exactly!

[jammi567]

Turgon.

[Finrod Felagund]

Killed in the fall of his tower...

[jammi567]

Yes.

[Ellf]

Arathorn?

[The last sane person]

By an orcish arrow to the eye? I think thats the right arathorn anyways...