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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Aug 5 2016, 6:07am
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Steven Colbert answering Tolkien questions from his audience
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Whatever you may think about Colbert and his interpretation of Tolkien, you have to admire his enthusiasm. 
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You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round
~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Aug 8 2016, 3:20pm
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Yes, although he seems quite knowledgeable, I think you could quite easily stump him if all your questions are as ‘wicked’ as the ones you quote.
I found his comparison of Frodo not being able to throw the Ring in the fire at Bag End and not being able to throw the Ring in the Crack of Doom interesting (at first blush), but NOT true. . . You could have nailed him on that one!
It’s never stated that Frodo was not able to throw the Ring in the fire at Bag End. The passages referred to were that he reluctantly handed it to Gandalf, and Gandalf threw it in the fire. (Frodo was never asked to throw it in the fire.) So Colbert’s conclusion of the two events is a non sequitur.
If you are working on a Tolkien trivia book you have a compadre, and I know very well what you are attempting. I made a trivia game back in the very early ‘70s, but it was based solely on The Hobbit & LotR. About 4,000 questions & answers with three levels of difficulty. I came oh so close to having it published…
If I had included The Silmarillion, U.T. etc. the questions could have been doubled, trebled, or more.
And over Middle-earth he passed
and heard at last the weeping sore
of women and of elven-maids
in Elder Days, in years of yore.
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Gianna
Rohan
Aug 8 2016, 3:35pm
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He does make quite a few factual errors.
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My Tolkien pet peeve is the use of "Maiar" and "Valar" as both the plural and singular form... and he does that. It drives me crazy! 
4000 questions - wow! Too bad it wasn't published; that would be awesome. I'm doing five levels of difficulty, from stuff a casual reader would know to stuff from the Silm and UT that hardcore geeks would be hard put to remember. 
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Elthir
Grey Havens
Aug 8 2016, 4:10pm
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Gandalf asks Frodo to try to "do away with it"
Frodo found that he could not do so [fling it into the very hottest part of the fire], not without a great struggle... then he makes an effort of will to cast it away... but found that he had put it back in his pocket.
That said... there might be another kind of "answer" to Stephen's question.
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a.s.
Valinor
Aug 9 2016, 1:33am
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...this is the essential sadness in Frodo's story, that he walks all the way to Mount Doom with the knowledge that he won't be able to let it go, but trusting in the Wise who seem to think it's a task appointed to him anyway.
Glad to know Colbert agrees with me, LOL.
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"an seileachan"
"A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds." JRR Tolkien, Letters.
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