trivia game

[andustar]

ok ive no idea if this will work since ive only done it in e mails before, but... i'll give it a try, ok?

it goes like this: someone takes a sentance out of lotr (not from appendixes or forwards or anything, only the main text)

they put it up and we have to find it in our books and give the next sentance as proof.

now its not that simple, there are some rules to it - it must be at least one full sentance, but the difficulty can range from 'eleventy one years are too short a time to spend among you' to 'but they do' . if its easy like bilbo's speech, you don't need to give any help. if its very difficult like 'but they do' then you need to tell either which which of the three volumes it comes from, or from the six smaller books, i leave it open to you to chose. just don't be unreasonable! (the person who did it with me by e mail gave me 'but they do' with no hints at all and it was impossible)

i think thats about it, i'll start it off with an example, from the Fellowship of the Ring:
'if simple folk are free from care and fear simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so'
then you would say that the next sentance is
'that has been the task of my kinderd while the years....' you don't have to give more than that, its just proof that you found it

ok i'll give an easy one for the first time. from book four
Into the stronghold of the enemy in the north, into Dol Guldur, he had once ventured.


if no one answers in a week then whoever put it up must give the answer and a new quote.
want to try?

[Eruve]

But into Mordor, to the Mountain of Fire and to Barad-dur, since the Dark Lord rose to power again, had he ever journeyed there?

From Book III:
'Twenty-one!' cried Gimli.

[andustar]

'Twenty one!' cried Gimli. He hewed a two handed stroke and laid the last orc before his feet.

hm, ok. i think i'll give a harder one this time. from book five.

He may, perhaps, hold his men together long enough, but i doubt it.

lets see you find that one so quickly, eruve! :p

[Eruve]

I found the other one quickly, because it had Dol Guldur in it. I just looked up Dol Guldur in the index... I'll be hunting the new one later!!

[Eruve]

Even without an index...

'No,' said Gandalf. 'But he still lived when I left him. Yet he resolved to stay with the rearguard, lest the retreat over the Pelennor become a rout. He may, perhaps, hold his men together long enough, but I doubt it. He is pitted against a foe too great. For one has come that I feared.'


OK, a new one...
From Book II: For my part, I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the works of Sauron the only fair.

[Finduilas]

The scroll Gandalf read in The Council of Elrond
Then it continues: "It is precious to me though I buy it with great pain."

Next sentence:
Fellowship of the Rings:
"All is now ready for you."

[andustar]

difficult one... but i will get it eventually!

andustar

[anduin]

Enter the boats! But take care at first.
Farewell to Lorien


next sentence:
Return of the King
For about this time of the year, when the leaves are gold before they fall, look for Bilbo in the woods of the Shire.

[Fat middle]

easy, it´s the end of many partings: "These words no one else, hear, and Frodo kept them to himself"

and now, from Book II: "Annon edhellen, edro hi ammen!"

[bmilder]

And that's what Gandalf said at Moria. (I only know because I re-read FotR this week :p )

the next line was "Fennas nogothrim, lasto beth lammen!" (Beats me what that means ;) )

Ok here's mine:

Book I:
"He thought of himself running free over the grass, grieving for Merry, and Sam, and Pippin, but free and alive himself."

[Finduilas]

Gandalf would admit there had been nothing else he could do.

Two Towers:
"But still I am afraid."

[Eruve]

That's from the Barrow-wight scene.

The next line is:
Gandalf would admit that there had been nothing else he could do.

From Fellowship. "Frodo had a very trying time that afternoon."

[bmilder]

Well, Finduilas got in first. I'll answer Eruve's anyway, but after that we'll concentrate on Finduilas's.
"A false rumour that the whole household was being distributed free spread like wildfire; and before long the place was packed with people who had no business there, but could not be kept out."

I have an interesting story about that line, "Frodo had a very trying time that afternoon." I tried to read LotR to my brother when he was younger, and I wasn't sure if he was paying attention, so when I got to that sentence I repeated it ten times to see if he'd notice (he didn't, if I recall correctly ;) ). Then as a joke, I'd throw that line in throughout the story :p

Now back to Finduilas's, "But still I am afraid" from the Two Towers.

[andustar]

finduilas, i can't get that one, i tried hard really i did! but it doesn't look like anyone else can do it, so as the week is up and you are unanswered please tell us the answer and give a different one!
(phew, what a long sentance)
ok finduilas? i really want to know where you got that from!
or wait - maybe you could just give a hint? like what book out of six is it from, or who said it?

andustar

[anduin]

Finally!! :)

From The Taming of Smeagol: "And yet, as you see, I will not touch the creature. For now that I see him, I do pity him."

Next, an easy one: "Take your sword and bear it unto good fortune!"

[galadriel2]

"Take you sword and bear it unto good fortune!:
"As a father you shall be to me,"said Merry.


"Forgive me, lord,"he said at last,"if I have broken your comand, and yet have done no more in your service than to weep at our parting."


Galadriel2

[Eruve]

That's Merry at the death of Theoden. Next line: "The old king smiled."

I'll borrow from my own post for the next one:
"A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death."

[Finduilas]

So wise they are; so just, so very just.

next sentence:

Nay, lady, I am the last of the Númenoreans and the latest King of the Elder Days; and to me has been given not only a span thrice that of Men of Middle-Earth, but also the grace to go at my will and give back the gift.

[Eruve]

(For once.) Now, therefore I will sleep.

Gandalf laughed long and merrily.

[andustar]

well even thought your not supposed to use the appendixes... never mind its not important

Gandalf laughed long and merrily. 'The trees?' he said. 'Nay, I see the wood as plainly as you do.'
from the road to isengaurd.

ok, heres one, should puzzle you all for a while! (i hope)

A few woves howled mournfully, far away.

[bmilder]

Hmm... you mean wolves, right?
I didn't find that sentence in the Company's battle with the Wargs, or when they heard wolves howl on the way to Isengard. I'm currently in the middle of LotR, so either I've passed the passage or I'll get to it eventually...

[andustar]

yup, wolves... sorry
and they aren't where you think they would be ;)

andustar

[etherealunicorn]

The next sentence is: The Ents stopped the inflow in the night, and sent the Isen back into its old course. From Flotsam and Jetsam.

[etherealunicorn]

On its further side the woods gathered again, blue and grey under the sullen evening, and marched on southwards.

[andustar]

looks hard... doesn't say anything definate, or that i can look up, or that is special to one part of the book... i will find it soon though i hope

andustar

[etherealunicorn]

Please, by all means take your time. I am in no hurry. Yes, it was deliberately selected to give no obvious clues. I have faith that the answer will be found, judging by the cleverness of some of the observations made which I have read here in Entmoot.:)

[Elfling]

What book is that from etherealunicorn? (Love the name!) ...Or are you allowed to tell?

[andustar]

WANT HINT HINT HINT!!!!! THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
no really, its too hard! be warned, i have an even worse one prepared for you... but i will give you a hint with it.
please can we have a hint???

[etherealunicorn]

No sweat about a hint. I would have been back yesterday with one but we had company and then I lost my bookmark for it, but here it is now.
Book Four after Faramir

[andustar]

and i was looking at all the fangorn and hourn references!!!!

[andustar]

i have the answer!!!!! woooohoooo! :rollin:

ok, from journey to the cross roads, next sentance is: to the right the mountains of Gondor glowed, Remote in the west, under the fire flecked sky.
My sentance is ver hard, so a clue in two days unless someone gets it. (unlikely, but possible)

'The Hobbits were silent for some time.'

HAH lets see you

[Finduilas]

Found it at last.
To the right the Mountains of Gondor glowed, remote in the West, under a fire-flecked sky.


Here's one
All that heard that sound trembled.

[etherealunicorn]

Here it is, Andustar:
In Treebeard, next line; 'They felt, oddly enough, safe and comfortable, and they had a great deal to think and wonder about.'
Haven't found yours just yet, Finduilas, but I will be back.

In the meantime, here is my next installment, probably not much of a challenge: 'Fear would have destroyed them.'
Have fun :)

[etherealunicorn]

I found it, Finduilas
In Helm's Deep, next sentence is: 'Many of the Orcs cast themselves on their faces and covered their ears with their claws.'

[andustar]

it will get very confusing if we have TWO threads going... (finduilas, i got there first!)

i wasn't excpecting anyone to get it without a hint. wow!

[etherealunicorn]

What can I say, I have a trivial mind :lol: :lol: :lol:
But seriously, you can't read this stuff for 20 years without something rubbing off. The sentences jog the memory, then it is just a case of remembering where I saw it before.
Believe me, if you keep reading LotR long enough, it WILL start to leak out of your ears, lol

[Finduilas]

Thats for sure. :) When I answered the last one and set up the 2 at the same time, there was no other answer there.

[andustar]

i posted it while you were still writing it then. never mind.
20 years of tolkien??? i haven't been alive for that long! but its true what you said about the quote, happens to me too

[andustar]

OK i think we need a hint here...:lol:

[andustar]

PLEASE may we have a hint?????

[anduin]

What's the quote again?

[andustar]

Fear would have destroyed them.

'not much of a challenge' , yeah, right

[andustar]

do we get a hint or not???

[bmilder]

etherealunicorn appears to be gone (http://pub2.ezboard.com/fbenjaminstolkienboardgeneralmessages.showMessage? topicID=404.topic) so you'll just have to find it! :p

[andustar]

argh

you try, lets see you

[Quickbeam]

But when dark things come from the houseless hills...

(Aragorn at the Council of Elrond)

Guess you just needed someone a little older and wiser to figure it out!
Hi, Anduin! You also know me as C.F. Thanks for the invite!
Moving right along...

Almost the last drop of the Smaug vintage.

[Bullroarer]

May come in useful, if you think about getting married, Sam.

(Bilbo's gifts to the 4 hobbits on the return journey at Rivendell.)

Next:

They passed back into the great house.

http://www.tolkein.com/bilbo.gif



(This aught to puzzle that nasty creature)

[anduin]

Hullo CF....I mean Quickbeam (great name BTW)!! I just knew that someone that likes the Beatles as much as me was cool enough to get into LOTR. Welcome to the board......I expect a lot of input and posts from someone so old and so wise. ;) You may want to check out the LOTR Poll in LOTR Books.....you may find out that there are others here that share your ageand wisdom. :)

[etherealunicorn]

Hello again, folks.
I'm sorry that I couldn't get back to provide a hint, but I'd say that it didn't seem to be needed:) .
Hope everyone has been well.

[Khazad Yehudi]

Already they heard below them in the town the heralds crying and the war-horns blowing. (‘The Two Towers’: Wormtongue has just spat at Theoden's feet on the terrace outside Meduseld.)

To follow: —

“You should have spoken.” (Book II.)

[Eruve]

The fellowship has just escaped from Moria, but Frodo and Sam are both hurt and begin to lag behind. Legolas signals Aragorn to halt so the two hobbits can be attended to. The next line is: "We have done nothing to ease you as we ought, though all the orcs of Moria were after us."

Next:
From TT: "Three times is a threat."

[Quickbeam]

"They feel us here. They feel the Precious." (Gollum at the end of the passage of the dead marshes, referring to the Nazgul.)
FINALLY!!!

"Now I understand what seemed so strange to me!" said Pippin...

[Quickbeam]

All right, here's a clue: BOOK V.

[Shanamir Duntak]

There is two Quickbeam. I don't think it's an imitator and all, he just choose a name he found really good. You shouldn't take offense, you should instead be proud he chose the same name as you.

Can't the two of you you survive with the same name?

I'm sad I cannot play to this game, only having the french version of LOTR... :(

[Quickbeam]

I'm really not bothered by it. I'm just having a little fun with the situation. I've probably made my point by now, though, so maybe I should change my sig again.

[Quickbeam]

Better? :D

[Shanamir Duntak]

Yeah, that's pretty nice now... We will know for sure who you are...:)

[Quickbeam]

I just noticed I'm on the threshold of a milestone. This calls for another change or two...

[Quickbeam]

That's better still! Less mean sounding. :)

NOW IS SOMEONE GOING TO IDENTIFY THE QUOTE, OR WHAT????

[anduin]

The Pyre of Denethor

....shuddering at his memories as he spoke. "The Lord went away from the room where Faramir lay;and it was only when he returned that I first thought he was changed, old and broken."




He was naked, lying as if in a swoon on a heap of filthy rags: his arm was flung up, sheilding his head, and across his side there ran an ugly whip-weal.

[Eruve]

The tower of Cirith Ungol
"Frodo! Mr.Frodo, my dear! cried Sam.





Before them dark in the dawn the great mountains reached up to roofs of smoke and cloud.

[Shanamir Duntak]

Damn, I'd like to play...

Shanamir Duntak, The cursed. (4 Times!) :)

[Quickbeam]

Is it clue time yet?

[Shanamir Duntak]

I think I know where it is...

[Quickbeam]

So did I, but I was wrong.

"Before them, darkling against a pallid sky, the great mountains reared their threatening heads."

Close, but no 'Dutch Masters President'.

[andustar]

i was planning to resurrect this thread since i'm back, but couldn't find the quote... so i'm going to open it up again, and hope someone else gets it! ;)

[Finduilas]

Found it!!
Upon the west of Mordor marched the gloomy range of Ephel Duath, the Mountains of Shadow, and upon the north the broken peaks amd barren ridges of Ered Lithui, grey as ash.

Here's one!
"A nasty drop, I'll bet," said Sam.

[RKittle]

The cleft was longer and deeper than it seemed.

[Finduilas]

So what's the next question?

[RKittle]

Oh! Am I supposed to automatically go to the next question?

[Finduilas]

I believe that is the way the trivia games usually work (somewhat different when played on ICQ (probably also the reason they fail on my board is that I have alread given out most of the trivia I think up in games on ICQ (same people played on my board as on ICQ))

[anduin]

Yes, you give your answer and then you give the next quote.....you don't have to wait for someone to tell you you are right.

Nice to see you around again RKittle. :)

[RKittle]

OK, then... guess I'll continue. Here's the quote. Give the speaker and next line.

"Then leave him!"

Glad to be back. I'm always so darned busy but I seem to eventually always wander back into Fangorn.

[Finduilas]

Speaker: Gandalf
next line: But Wormtongue only shot a glance of his bleared eyes full of terror at Gandalf, and then shuffled quickly past behind Saruman.

Here's the next one:
War is kindled.

[Gilthalion]

Gandalf: War is kindled.

See, there is the fire on Amon Din, and flame on Eilenach; and there they go speeding west: Nardol, Erelas, Min-Rimmon, Calenhad, and the Halifirien on the borders of Rohan.


NEXT ONE:

'Well, here we are, and here we must pass another night,' said Boromir.

[Morkhon]

"We need sleep, and even if Aragorn had a mind to pass the Gates of Argonath by night, we are all too tire--except, no doubt, our sturdy dwarf."



"Suddenly the great bow of Lorien sang."

[Eruve]

"Suddenly the great bow of Lorien sang. Shrill went up the arrow from the elven-string."

From "The Great River"

Next: "The passage seemed to go on for miles, and always the chill air flowed over them, rising as they went on to a bitter wind."

[Finduilas]

Found it again.

The mountains seemed to be trying with their deadly breath to daunt them, to turn them back from the secrets of the high places, or to blow them away into the darkness behind.

Next:
Maybe there ain't no such a beast.

[Fat middle]

"He sighed" (about the Oliphaunt).


"As far as he could remember, Sam slept through the night in deep content, if logs are contented."

[Eruve]

That's from "In the House of Tom Bombadil". Next line: "They woke up, all four at once, in the morning light."

Next:
"There he wandered long in a dream of music that turned into running water, and then suddenly into a voice."

[Finduilas]

It seemed to be the voice of Bilbo chanting verses.

next
Swords are no more use here.

[Morkhon]

Been spending alot of time on Fellowship haven't we?

From the Bridge of Khazad-Dum.

"Do as I say!" said Gandalf fiercely. "Swords are no more use here. Go!"


"'At Pelargir the Heir of Isildur will have need of you,'" he said."
Give speaker and next line.

[Fat middle]

that's Legolas quoting Aragorn. "Thus we crossed over Gilrain, driving the allies of Mordor in rout before us" Go! :)



'Strider!' he exclaimed when he got back his breath.

[Fat middle]

hint? :p

[Finduilas]

Love one. I can't find this in either of 2 copies of the LOTR.

[Fat middle]

ok: it is in ROTK.

there are less "Striders" in ROTK than in FOTR ;)

[RovingTurtle]

'Strider!' he exclaimed when he got back his breath. Him with a crown and golden cup! Well what are we coming too?'
Thats Butterbur from "Homeward Bound"

w00t got it ok here we go...

'The sun may shine here,' said Gimli

[RovingTurtle]

First time I go and the game dies... Gee i feel bad

[Finduilas]

It's not you, its the choice of references (which by the way I can't find). How about giving us a hint?

[RovingTurtle]

Return of the King, latter part of the book

[Eruve]

That helps; I was looking in Fellowship for that!

Found it! "The Sun may shine here, said Gimli, but there are memories of that road that I do not wish to recall out of the darkness."

Next:
'Very good!' said Sam gloomily. 'But I'm going first.'

[Finduilas]

"You?" said Frodo. "What's made you change your mind about clombing?"

The enemy is on your heels

[andustar]

how is it whenever i come, determined to solve it, i find an impossible one with a much easier one already solved just before it????? i'll crack this one if i possibly can... <goes off to get her books>

[Fat middle]

impossible?... "one ring to find them" ;)

from Helm's Deep, "The host past through the bridge and halted on the sloping sward above."
i first looked for the scout words in that same chapter and then discarded it, but yesterday i went again and found it at last. :)

and now, for you,

"Frodo sat up and yawned and stretched."

[andustar]

i think i know where that comes from, one moment...

[andustar]

yeeees!!!found it. it wasn't quite where i thought it would be though. do you know how many times Frodo got up to loud noises, rose slowly or simply sat up??? i found one where he just yawns and streches, but doesn't sit up. oh well.

from "The Window on thw West": next setance is: Sam, not used to being waited on, looked with some surprise at the man who bowed, holding a basin of water before him.

right, now one for you :evil: a REALLY REALLY hard one!!!!! (or at least i hope so. i wouldm't be able to get it, myself. i hope i won't forget where it's from ;) no, i wont, i wrote the page number up on a piece of paper on my wall :p ).
At dawn they made ready to go on.

[andustar]

got you stumped??? :evil:

[Finduilas]

To be honest, yes you do. (something I have had no sucess doing to any of you yet)

[andustar]

its in The Two Towers

[Finduilas]

Found it.
The light came grey and pale, and they did not see the rising of the sun.

Next one:
Let us go down.

[Elentir]

Hello everyone. Well, after Fin told me that this comes from Book V, I found it, in

[Elentir]

Okay, well, as I was trying to say, this comes from Book V, Chapter 4, "The Siege of Gondor," and it's spoken by Denethor.

"'As for the sortie, I have already given thought to it. Let us go down.'

Time passed. At length the watchers on the walls could see the retreat of the out-companies."

So, now, here is one for all of you, from Book IV:

"'He's getting near now, near enough to hear a whisper.'"

Hope that one's not too easy for ya.

-Elentir

[Finduilas]

Indeed Gollum had suddenly paused again, and his large head on its scrawny neck was lolling from side to side as if he was listening.


Next
Aragorn sped on up the hill.

[Elentir]

This is the opening line of TT.

"Aragorn sped on up the hill. Every now and again he bent to the ground."

All right, I'll try again. From FR:

"It was Gandalf who roused them all from sleep."


-Elentir

[Finduilas]

He had sat and watched all alone for about 6 hours, and had let the others rest.

Next:
Silence fell again.

[Finduilas]

I didn't realize this one was so hard :) (but then I've forgotten where I found it)

[Eruve]

I hope you remember, because I, for one, need a hint. The most pitiful part is, I just finished a re-read!

[Finduilas]

No such luck. I don't even remember which book :(

[andustar]

can't find it

[Finduilas]

Shall we skip it and do another?

[Morkhon]

Yes please.

[Finduilas]

Ok. I'll put one up when I get home (don't have the books at class).

[Finduilas]

Try this one instead.
Then we can go quickly.

[andustar]

sorry, i didn't get that one :) i gave up on it, to be honest... give us a hint!

[Finduilas]

Again, I've forgotten where I found that one.

[anduin]

:lol: That is too much!

[Finduilas]

It doesn't help that I had to junk the only copy of the LOTR that I know like the back of my hand (it got oil spilled on it and I was NOT going to put it on the shelf with other books). This means that I have either a one volume hardcover or a set of missmatched books to work from, neither of which I really know.

[Eruve]

This is OT, but anduin, why do you all of a sudden have only 4 posts?

[Finduilas]

Need to skip this one? A quick tip for preventing the questioner forgetting where he or she found the sentence would be to answer fairly soon after the trivia is posted :)

[anduin]

I mistakenly used my global user "anduin" to make that post. Normally i post with local "anduin".

[Balthamos]

skip it

btw i am andustar just so that you know. in case you don't read my sig :)

[Finduilas]

Here
Neither brave nor silly, I think.

[Lief Erikson]

I could hardly help myself.

How about this:

For a moment Frodo stood gaping.

[Morkhon]

I think Finduilas' "Neither brave nor silly I think." was a quote Lief. Everyone should put there quotes into quotation marks so there aren't mistakes made like that, it took me a minute to remember that I think I have heard that one. BTW I know the speaker, but not the part were it is said; and since I'm at a friend's house I don't have access to my books that I know better than his.

[Lief Erikson]

I know that "Neither brave nor silly I think" was a quote, Morkhon. And "I could hardly help myself" was the next sentence. Merry next said, "I seemed to be drawn, somehow." It was at the scene in the Fellowship of the Ring where the black riders use the black breath on Merry in Bree.

[dunedain lady]

I know that one! I know that one! But I can't...find...the book!! AAAARGH!

[Morkhon]

Ah, sorry my mistake Leif. I guess that means you get to give the next quote.

[Lief Erikson]

I guess I was a little bit to abrupt in my first post. I already told my next quote. "For a moment Frodo stood gaping" was my next one. I guess I should have put it in quotation marks. My mistake.

[adanedhel]

"Then in desperation he began a ridiculous song that Bilbo had been rather proud of,....."

How about...."To Minas Tirith before the seas of war surround it."

[Tar Melian]

I know this! I just got through rereading the first half of TT. Gandalf is speeding on Shadowfax with Pippin to Minas Tirith, instead of Helm's Deep, after seeing the Nazgul.

"Oh! How far is that?" (Pippin)

Here's one:

"Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!"

[Lief Erikson]

I knew I'd heard that one the moment I read it, and I just happened to have the Two Towers on hand.

"Well earned?" said Gimli. "I cannot believe that!"

Here's your next one:

"What has happened since we came back to this grim place in the gray morning?" (Return of the King)

[Lief Erikson]

Surely someone can get this? I'll give you guys a few more days and then write a new one.

[Lief Erikson]

Surely someone can get this? I'll give you guys a few more days and then write a new one.

[Tar Melian]

I've been scanning the book for days and couldn't find it! I knew it had to have something to do with the Battle at Helm's Deep!

This is Legolas speaking to Aragorn at the Burg. The next sentence is:

'A struggle somewhat grimmer for my part that the Battle of the Hornburg,' answered Aragorn.

Yaaaaaaaaay! That one was tough!

[Tar Melian]

"...Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil." RotK

[Finduilas]

Then Frodo kissed Merry and Pippin, and last of all Sam, and went aboard; and the sails were drawn up, and the wind blew, and the ship slipped away down the long grey firth; and the light of the glass of Galadriel that Frodo bore glimmered and was lost.

Next
Their going was very slow.

[Lief Erikson]

Ooch! That one's a bit vague, so perhaps you could help by telling which book it's from.

[Finduilas]

Fellowship of the Rings

[Lief Erikson]

I thought so, although every other Lord of the Rings fan in the house told me that it was probably from The Return of the Kings.

Now if I can just remember where it's from . . .

[Tar Melian]

Thanks for the hint! There are actually very similar passages in both of the other books. This one is used however when the 4 hobbits leave Tom Bombadil and go in search of the road through the Downs.

To prevent their getting separated and wandering in different directions they went in file, with Frodo leading.

[Tar Melian]

Here's a passage I really love!

And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.

[dunedain lady]

Oh, I love that passage!

[Tar Melian]

yes, isn't is just wonderful! I think Tolkein had to be a hopeless romantic to be able to write stuff like that!

[Tar Melian]

Ok, it's in RotK

[dunedain lady]

Woohoo! I found it!

It is describing the minstrel at Minas Tirith, and the next line is "And at the last, as the sun fell from the noon and the shadows of the trees lengthened, he ended. 'Praise them with great praise,' he said and knelt."

Here's mine:
"But it's going to him, yes, nearer every step." (T2T)

[Tar Melian]

let's see....this sounds like maybe Gollum talking about the ring? But I haven't found it yet. Am I close?

[Finduilas]

Yes you are. I'd find it, but I can't find my copy of the Two Towers (Probably behind the desk or something).

[Tar Melian]

Yesssss!
This is when Gollum was talking to himself, while Frodo slept, and Sam was secretly watching.

"What's the hobbit going to do with it we wonders, yes we wonders."

New one coming, just a sec...

[Tar Melian]

This is probably too easy:

"A day draws near that I have looked for in all the years of my mannood, and when it comes I would have my friends beside me."

[Elanor]

yay! finally one I can get: Aragorn in The Steward and the King, talking of course of his marriage to Arwen. "But of that day he would say no more". (This is a poignant moment in which we get a glimpse of Aragorn's long and patient wait, and I'm glad to some extent that the movies will bring this out.)

Here's mine:

Let us leave this--did you say what you call it?

[Tar Melian]

I assume this is something a character actually said....hmmmm....I need to think some more!!

[Tar Melian]

Which book?

[Finduilas]

It's in the Two Towers, which I still can't find. I have all the others within easy reach, but I CANT find that blasted book!!

[Morkhon]

I know who said, I even know the chapter, but I'm at school and don't know the exact wording of the next line, damn it.

[Tar Melian]

That is Treebeard talking to Pippin and Merry!

"Hill?" suggested Pippin.

OK, here's a new one:

"Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself, "...

[Finduilas]

Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, forboding that worse yet lay in the dregs?

Next
He's got other mills like it.

[Tar Melian]

"But you've got to have grist before you can grind; and there was no more for the new mill to do than the old." (RotK-The Scouring of the Shire - Cotton talking to Merry)


"There are some who would begin to doubt whether your errand is fit to tell," said the old man.

[Finduilas]

Don't know that one, but I found my copy of the Two Towers. Guess where. On the shelf with the rest of my Tolkien books :) .

[Elanor]

This one was hard. Gandalf to Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli in Fangorn just before they realize it's him: "Happily I know something of it."

"'His message is less bad than that, if not good,' said Pippin."

[Tar Melian]

Findiulas, I'm having one of those days myself...I looked all over for my keys this morning, to find them in my purse!

[Finduilas]

I hate to ask for a hint, but though I know that line, I can't find it anywhere. Could you narrow the search down a bit?

[Elanor]

It's in the first half of the Return of the King.

[Finduilas]

Found it!
He says that if you would prefer it to standing me on my head, you might show me around the city for a while and cheer my loneliness.

Next:
All that country is alive with our hunters now.

[Balthamos]

Pippin, in the Scouring of the Shire. Next sentance: "Behind, the trapped Men in the lane, still about four score ..."

my turn now!
"not willingly," said Gimli.

i will give hints if you need them :) but i don't make the mistake of underestimating you any more ;)

[Balthamos]

it's from Return of the King :)

[Finduilas]

Found it.
For upon that road I was put to shame: Gimli Gloin's son, who had deemed himself more tough than Men and hardier under earth than any Elf.

Next
It was too sore a trial!

[Tar Melian]

This is Faramir speaking of Boromir when Sam spoke of the Ring. "...How you have increased my sorrow, you two strange wanderers from a far country, bearing the peril of Men!"

Here's one:

"My dear old hobbit, you don't allow for the inquisitiveness of friends."

[Finduilas]

Easy enough

I have known about the existence of the Ring for years - before Bilbo went away, in fact....


Next
They did not have to wait long.

[Elanor]

evil ambiguous quote! It could be anywhere. Give hints!

[Finduilas]

Return of the King (I remembered to use a bookmark this time to find it again).

[Nimruzir]

'The orcs were going at a great pace.'

[Nimruzir]

For Andustar:
RE (first message of thread) (the person who did it with me by e mail gave me 'but they do' with no hints at all and it was impossible)
Vol. 2
'They can move very quickly, if they are angry.'

[Finduilas]

You stand still looking at the weather, maybe, or listening to the reustling of the wind, and then suddenly you find that you are in the middle of a wood with great groping trees all around you.

Next:
I wonder what he saw there?

[Nimruzir]

RE: I wonder what he saw there?
But he returned by the same way, and went down the hill again.

Findulias, I did not give another line. I was answering what Andustar claimed was impossible. But your next line confirmed the answer. I was simply awaiting confirmation of my answer to your line. I am guessing that your giving of a new line was confirmation.

Upon confirmation of the new answer re:I wonder what he saw there:
Next line in game, still remaining in Vol. 2, but as there is 1 instance in Vol. 1 of this same sentence, it would also be acceptable.

Line:
'Sam said nothing.'

[Balthamos]

Hey, I found it impossible... I didn't appreciate quite how well you guys know the books :) that's why I took that back and gave no hints for some of my quotes :)

[Nimruzir]

But do you have the next line?
From either Volume will work as an answer.

[Elanor]

'Not much use is it, Sam?' said Strider. 'But the time is near when it will be forged anew.'
Sam said nothing.
'Well,' said Strider, 'with Sam's permission we will call that settled.'



'My heart will be glad, even in the winter,' said Aragorn.

[Nimruzir]

Volume 1 answer works.

[Balthamos]

That was Aragorn about going to Lorien. Next sentance: 'But it lies many miles away. Let us hasten!'

my quote: (two sentances, i know)

'Three times!' he whimpered. 'Three times is a threat'

hmmm... I give no hints for now but i will if you need them :)

[Finduilas]

They feel us here, they feel the Precious.


Next
Frodo was alive but taken by the Enemy.

[Balthamos]

easy enough :)

I don't know about giving a next sentance, it being the last sentance of the Two Towers...

''Very well, I will take it,' said Frodo.

:evil:

[Lief Erikson]

Bilbo put it on him, fastening Sting upon the glittering belt; and then Frodo put over the top his old weather-stained breeches, tunic, and jacket.


And here's the next one:


"Do you mean to say that you, and the Elves, have let him live on after all those horrible deeds? Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just as an enemy. He deserves death."


I'm not going to tell which book that's from. It's easy enough as is.

[Finduilas]

Definitely easy! (It's quoted many times on my webpage)
Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be to eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Next:
You sleep long.

[Lief Erikson]

Now that's as hard as mine was easy. What book is it from?

[Tar Melian]

I can't believe I found this! Finduilas' is notoriously vague. TT book-Treebeard talking to Pippin and Merry...

"I have been many a hundred strides already today."

[Lief Erikson]

Wow, now I'm impressed. You'd have to be a serious Tolkien fan to find that.

So what's next?

[Tar Melian]

He sat with his head bowed, either in despair or in anxious thought.

[Finduilas]

That's a tough one. I thought it was FR when the Company was leaving Rivendell, but no, nor is it in Mordor as far as I can tell. Clue please? (such as volume #)

[Tar Melian]

FotR

[Tar Melian]

sorry if this is too vague :( ,so here's another hint:
"he" is Gandalf

[Lief Erikson]

Its actually not all that hard. Here it is, when they are about to enter Moria:

The mournful howling of the wolves was heard again. The ripples on the water grew and came closer; somer were already lapping on the shore.

Here's your next one:

Most of the company were, however, now in a tolerant mood, at that delightful stage which they called 'filling the corners'.

[Finduilas]

They were sipping their favourite drinks, and nibbling at their favourite dainties, and their fears were forgotten.

Next:
It is very precious.

[Tar Melian]

This is Gandalf giving hobbits a drink at Caradhras.
"It is miruvor, the cordial of Imladris."

new one:

"...The stink nearly knocks me down with my nose held...":)

[Tar Melian]

Where did last quote come from??

[Lief Erikson]

"You stink, and master stinks; the whole place stinks."

"Yes, yes, and Sam stinks!" answered Gollum. "Poor Smeagol smells it, but good Smeagol bears it. Helps nice master."


And here's the next one:


"And others, too, came out of the forest. Great Orcs, who also bore the White Hand of Isengard: that kind is stronger and more fell than all the others."

[Tar Melian]

This is Eomer talking to Aragorn...

"Nonetheless, we put an end to them."

New one:

A sudden panic or madness seemed to have fallen on the Company.

[Lief Erikson]

"We shall all be scattered and lost," groaned Aragorn.

Here's the next:

He was standing between two trees gazing at the blank wall of the cliff, as if he would bore a hole in it with his eyes.

[Tar Melian]

Gimli was wandering about, tapping the stone here and there with his axe.

I thought this was funny...


"There are eyes!"

[Finduilas]

Eyes looking out from the shadows of the boughs!

Next
Three files up.

[Lief Erikson]

And what book is that from? You always seem to come up with the hardest ones.

[Tar Melian]

This is in RotK, when uruks think Frodo and Sam are deserting orcs...

"And stay there, or you'll know it, when I come down the line!"

[Tar Melian]

"Not likely," answered Gandalf, "though they came to the balance of a hair."

[Finduilas]

You're pretty good at coming up with tough ones too. I can't place that one off the top of my head.

[Tar Melian]

The Two Towers

[Tar Melian]

Or shall we just forget this one? OK, hint...(It's in "The Voice of Saruman" chapter.)

[Finduilas]

Found it.
But I had reasons for trying; some merciful and some less so.

Next.
Bilbo was doing splendidly.

[Tar Melian]

This was the sort of stuff they liked: short and obvious.

ahem...yes...I prefer short and obvious too!

"Behold Isildur's Bane!"...

[Finduilas]

Boromir's eyes glinted as he gazed at the golden thing.

Next:
Only by a hair did they escape.

[Lief Erikson]

Which book is it from?

[Finduilas]

Return of the King

[Tar Melian]

This is when Sam and Frodo are leaving the Tower of Cirith Ungol.

A bell clanged; and from the Watchers there went up a high and dreadful wail.

New one:

"Cast off these cold rags!"

[Finduilas]

Run naked on the grass, while Tom goes a-hunting!

next:
Safest not to

[Tar Melian]

require a hint! Can you tell us which book?

[Finduilas]

The Two Towers.

[Elysha]

"Safest not to" isn't fair, Findaluin. In the first post of this trivia game, Andustar made it clear that you have to use a full sentence:

"now its not that simple, there are some rules to it - it must be at least one full sentance, but the difficulty can range from 'eleventy one years are too short a time to spend among you' to 'but they do' ."

Please, a different one!

[Finduilas]

It is a full sentence. Forgot to add the punctuation though.

[Lief Erikson]

I give up. Tar Melian, you're our only hope.

[Finduilas]

Another clue:
its in the second book

[Lief Erikson]

You already gave that clue.

[Finduilas]

also known as book 4.

[Tar Melian]

Sorry, but I have no clue where to begin. I haven't had the time to read through the entire second half of TT to find it. (which is what I usually have to do on Fin's!) But I don't give yet! I'll have some time today, and will give it a try.......

[Tar Melian]

"Grr! Those Nazgul give me the creeps. And they skin the body off you as soon as look at you, and leave you all cold in the dark on the other side. But He likes 'em; they're His favourites nowadays, so it's no use grumbling. I tell you, its's no game serving down in the city."

Gorbag talking to Shagrat.

Well, let's see..... I've got to come up with a new one...give me a minute.

[Tar Melian]

"...There must be someone with intelligence in the party."

[Finduilas]

Then you certainly will not be chosen Peregrin Took!

next:
And hold to your purpose!

(By the way, I've learned to always mark the pages I pull quotes from in case I have to give clues (If I can't always find my quotes, I think you are amazing to find so many of them) ).

[Tar Melian]

your quotes are usually the hardest! Could you tell us which book? Thanks!

[Finduilas]

Fellowship of the Ring

[Tar Melian]

I've looked all I care to for this one. I give. What about the rest of you?

[Lief Erikson]

I have no idea where this is from either, and I don't think anyone besides us three are playing.

Fin, please give us another.

[Finduilas]

One more clue: It's said by Bombadil.

[Tar Melian]

I know it's been the 3 of us, but we had a few people post once and then leave. I think others might join in if we made the quotes a little less difficult and gave them a chance.

OK, I found the quote with your clue, but it's Goldberry speaking not Tom.

North with the wind in the left eye, and a blessing on your footsteps!"

New one coming...

[Tar Melian]

This IS a sentence in the book, hopefully not too hard:

Horns, horns, horns.

[Finduilas]

I'm fairly sure it's not in the Two Towers, but where is it?
You're getting TOO good at this :) .

[Tar Melian]

in the Two Towers. It's in Return of the King. Guess this one's not as obvious as I thought.... <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":\">

[Hannah 3]

Nothing to do with the comversastion - this is Andustar / balthamos's sister, posting so thaht she'll stop getting five emails a day when people reply to the topic. We went on holiday and I just got 48 emails titled 'Trivia game' :mad:
I will look for it, though. Bye :)

[Lief Erikson]

Better isn't necessarily harder. That's not to say your not good at this, Tar Melian. Now, I've looked around a good deal in the Fellowship of the Rings. I haven't inspected every chapter, just the most likely places for it to be. I suppose that that leaves TROTK for us to check over. But if it isn't there, I suppose we can return to TFOTR

[Finduilas]

Found it.
In dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed.
next
And so it was settled.

[Tar Melian]

Is that it! I, I can't believe it! I, I can't keep doing this to myself! Begins hysterical scream and goes into lamaze breathing, slowing to a single, final exhale.

;)

[Lief Erikson]

Could you give easier ones? These really short ones are hard to find, and not as quite as fun. I haven't read the books as much as Tar Melian, so I am not being very helpful in getting them. And your driving him/her crazy. (Can't tell the gender from the name :| )

[Tar Melian]

her!

I feel much better now. Thanks, Lief!

As usual, Fin, we need a hint!!

[Balthamos]

hint please :)
(I'm back now! and pleasepleaseplease come to my board...)

[Finduilas]

ok.
Return of the King, second book. It's after the hobbits return to the Shire.

[Lief Erikson]

It was easy as soon as you said it was after they returned to the Shire.

Here it is:

Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the Spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End.

I hope this one isn't too hard. It sounds like it's from the Silmarillion, but it isn't. Here it is:

"And when will that time be? said Baldor. But no answer did he ever get. For the old man died in that hour and fell upon his face; and no other tidings of the ancient dwellers in the mountains have our folk ever learned.

[Lief Erikson]

but if you need another hint, I'll give you the next sentence. Although that makes it a lot easier, it isn't a dead giveaway.

[Balthamos]

next: Yet maybe at last the time has come, and Aragorn may pass

my qoute: "Are enemies at hand?"

[Tar Melian]

I knew what they were speaking of, but it took me a while to find it.

"Yet maybe the time foretold has come, and Aragorn may pass." This is Theoden talking to Eomer.


new one coming...

[Tar Melian]

This one isn't so hard, hopefully. :)

And so they stood on the walls of the city of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.

[Morkhon]

Tar Melian, Balthamos beat you to the answer, even if by just a matter of seconds. Even though your's is so much easier, I know exactly where it is.

[Finduilas]

Balthamos:
Let us see what Sting may show, answered Aragorn

Tar Melian:
And the Shadow departed, and the Sun was unveiled, and light lept forth; and the waters of Anduin shone like silver, and in all the houses of the City men sang for the joy that welled up in their hearts from what source they could not tell.

Next:
Yes, if she had naught else to say.

[dunedain lady]

That is in "The White Rider", with Gandalf giving Galadriel's messages to Legolas and Gimli. Gimli says this after Legolas says "Would you have her speak openly of your death?" The next line is "'What is that?' said Gandalf, opening his eyes."

My quote is:
"'Day is near,' he whispered, as if Day was something that might overhear him and spring on him."

[Finduilas]

Smeagol will stay here: I will stay here, and the Yellow Face won't see me.

Next
They are flying far inland.