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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Mar 17 2018, 7:11pm
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Here's a LOTR quiz
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my wife found on facebook. Fairly easy but fun. 35 questions. I got 34 but I'm sure many of my TORnsibs can get all 35. Post your score here if you wish...
https://www.zoo.com/...utm_medium=paid&pp=1
‘. . . the rule of no realm is mine . . .
But all worthy things that are in peril . . . those are my care.
For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'
Gandalf to Denethor
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Ataahua
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Mar 17 2018, 7:31pm
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That poem tripped me up.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Petty Dwarf
Bree
Mar 17 2018, 7:41pm
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"No words were laid on stream or stone
When Durin woke and walked alone."
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Silverlode
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Mar 17 2018, 7:50pm
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Silverlode
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
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Attalus
Lorien
Mar 17 2018, 10:34pm
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...but I should get extra credit for correcting them that Bill Ferny, not Sam, called Aragorn "Longshanks." I'm sure Sam would have thought it disrespectful. Unless it was in the movie? Too much of the movies in theis quiz for my taste. Good thing it didn't ask the name of Aragorn's horse or I would have missed out of sheer cussedness. 
We are the fighting Uruk-Hai! We slew the great warrior! Well, yeah, first he killed a bunch of us and another whole lot of Mauhúr's lads, and we had to shoot enough arrows into him to drop a Mûmak. But we got him!
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dernwyn
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Mar 18 2018, 1:22am
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Some were a tad tricksy! So which one tripped you, BG?
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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No One in Particular
Lorien
Mar 18 2018, 2:16am
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The trickiest one was the Macbeth question.
While you live, shine
Have no grief at all
Life exists only for a short while
And time demands an end.
Seikilos Epitaph
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Wainrider
Rivendell
Mar 18 2018, 2:51am
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I stopped at 20 because this quiz is a waste of time for any true middle earth fan.And the first question is stupid, BIlbo left the Shire twice, and it doesn't specify final or initial destination.
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N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
Mar 18 2018, 6:11am
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About a half dozen of the questions concern Jackson's films--which I don't know well--rather than Tolkien's book, usually explicitly, but I needed a hint to answer #26 correctly. It asked from whom Gandalf learned of Sauron's plans to attack Minas Tirith.
The right answer, says the quiz, is Pippin, who had "a glimpse of the enemy's plan. Sauron moves to strike the city of Minas Tirith".
Is that from the movies? It's not in the book.
Treason doth neuer prosper? What's the Reason?
for if it prosper none dare call it treason.
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N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
Mar 18 2018, 6:12am
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Would a true Middle-earth fan...
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...refer to Middle-earth as "middle earth"?
Treason doth neuer prosper? What's the Reason?
for if it prosper none dare call it treason.
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SirDennisC
Half-elven
Mar 18 2018, 1:51pm
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... in the movie Pippin looks into one of the seeing stones and sees a withered, white tree, in a courtyard in flames. From the vision, Gandalf discerns Sauron intended to attack Minis Tirith, even to the Citadel.
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Mar 18 2018, 3:59pm
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I stopped at 20 because this quiz is a waste of time for any true middle earth fan. Was supposed to be just a fun exercise.
And the first question is stupid, BIlbo left the Shire twice, and it doesn't specify final or initial destination. #1 Being multiple choice there can be no doubt as to which leaving is being referred to. And the destination is obvious for any Middle-earth fan such as you or I.
‘. . . the rule of no realm is mine . . .
But all worthy things that are in peril . . . those are my care.
For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'
Gandalf to Denethor
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Attalus
Lorien
Mar 18 2018, 8:19pm
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He mentions Macbeth IV, i in the Letters, IIRC. "Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him." 
We are the fighting Uruk-Hai! We slew the great warrior! Well, yeah, first he killed a bunch of us and another whole lot of Mauhúr's lads, and we had to shoot enough arrows into him to drop a Mûmak. But we got him!
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entmaiden
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Mar 18 2018, 8:23pm
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I missed the Macbeth question
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sador
Half-elven
Mar 19 2018, 3:53am
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And it didn't really affect the answer, unlike no. 26 which in the book simply isn't true.
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Attalus
Lorien
Mar 19 2018, 4:31pm
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I had that feeling. It's been a while since I have seen the movie, but that still doesn't sound like Sam
We are the fighting Uruk-Hai! We slew the great warrior! Well, yeah, first he killed a bunch of us and another whole lot of Mauhúr's lads, and we had to shoot enough arrows into him to drop a Mûmak. But we got him!
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Attalus
Lorien
Mar 19 2018, 4:34pm
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..I reverted to Gandalf's actions after the Palantir vision, you know, "Ride! Let not the swift wait for the slow..." etc
We are the fighting Uruk-Hai! We slew the great warrior! Well, yeah, first he killed a bunch of us and another whole lot of Mauhúr's lads, and we had to shoot enough arrows into him to drop a Mûmak. But we got him!
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Wilros
The Shire
Mar 19 2018, 8:03pm
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Tripped me up too. Too hard for my small brain when all 4 lines are actually in the poem! 34 out of 35.
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Hamfast Gamgee
Tol Eressea
Mar 19 2018, 11:53pm
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I deliberately got one movie question wrong. Tolkien never liked people getting too smart did he? Otherwise I might wear a coat of many colours and call myself Saruman! Yes, though I must admit this was a bit too movie over book for my tastes! And possibly a bit easy for the movie/internet generation. Although I have seen quizes set in forums such as these ones in the internet which where really tricky and I didn't know all the answers.
(This post was edited by Hamfast Gamgee on Mar 19 2018, 11:58pm)
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Hamfast Gamgee
Tol Eressea
Mar 19 2018, 11:56pm
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In the book Gandalf just assumes that Sauron will attack Minas Tirith because it is what anyone who wants to conquer Gondor would do and he knows that is what Sauron has been planning for a while. Although I think that Denethor has this confirmed to him be what he sees in the Palantir by Sauron,
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Nomad
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Mar 28 2018, 9:47pm
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Macbeth hath kept me from a perfect score. //
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