Two-word Tolkien Trivia

[Mister_Underhill]

The moon-runes on Thror's map, perhaps?

That is correct!

Golly, now I have to come up with another one. Umm, umm... Oh, I know.

Opposites attract.

[BIGeyedBUG]

Opposites attract.

Ungoliant famished for the holy light of Valinor, the Two Trees, and the Silmarils?

[Mister_Underhill]

Ungoliant famished for the holy light of Valinor, the Two Trees, and the Silmarils?

Not what I had in mind... but a good answer!

[Morthaur]

Opposites attract:

Obvious answer = Gimli and Legolas.

[Mister_Underhill]

Opposites attract:

Obvious answer = Gimli and Legolas.

No, but you're getting warmer...

[BIGeyedBUG]

Gimli and Galadriel. Gimli and Eomer. Gimli and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins! /scandalous

[Mister_Underhill]

Gimli and Galadriel.

Again, almost...

Gimli and Eomer.

"Nay, you are excused for my part, lord," he said. "You have chosen the Evening; but my love is given to the Morning. And my heart forebodes that soon it will pass away for ever."
The Return of the King: "Many Partings," p. 253

This is what I was thinking of, yes.

Gimli and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins! /scandalous

O_o
/runs screaming

[BIGeyedBUG]

Gah, I was certain it was Galadriel--the rest was meant as a joke, not a ballot-stuffing. :blush:

Anyway...

"Condensed Polyphemus"

[Boraxxe]

Condensed Polyphemus:

Thrain (though I think he usually cooked his meat).

[Vilnas]

Sauron, as perceived by Frodo with the Ring on.

[BIGeyedBUG]

Condensed Polyphemus:

Thrain (though I think he usually cooked his meat).

Ding! You are nimbler and more sly than Odysseus himself!

[Mister_Underhill]

Gah, I was certain it was Galadriel--the rest was meant as a joke, not a ballot-stuffing. :blush:

As I said, that was the passage I had in mind. I'd also have taken 'Galadriel and Arwen' as an answer, since they are the 'Attractive Opposites' mentioned.

[Vilnas]

Two weeks having passed without the designated question asker having availed him/herself of the opportunity, I will take up the mantle.

Odin's time

[BIGeyedBUG]

Odin's time

My first thought is the day of the week called Menelya, Ormenel, or Hevensday which corresponds closely with our Wednesday, and is translated as such by Tolkien. Wednesday is, of course, derived from "Odin's Day".

[Vilnas]

Yes, the clue does mean Wednesday (or Wotensday). But that is not the complete correct answer, nor is Menelya, Ormenel, or Hevensday. I am looking for a specific reference in one of the main texts.

Very nice work getting the hard part out of the way though.

[BIGeyedBUG]

Yes, the clue does mean Wednesday (or Wotensday). But that is not the complete correct answer, nor is Menelya, Ormenel, or Hevensday. I am looking for a specific reference in one of the main texts.

Very nice work getting the hard part out of the way though.

Ok, it seemed a little weak of an answer even to me, but it is a specific reference from the Appendices. :P

Gandalf Tea Wednesday, the note Bilbo should have written to himself after his meeting with the Wizard in The Hobbit.

[Vilnas]

Gandalf Tea Wednesday, the note Bilbo should have written to himself after his meeting with the Wizard in The Hobbit.

Just so. Nicely done.

[BIGeyedBUG]

Just so. Nicely done.

Thanks! I'm not sure that the intuitive process of finding an answer to any of these riddles has pleased me as much as that one did.


Alrighty then...

"Mongrel flycatcher".

[KonstantinPalailogos]

Thanks! I'm not sure that the intuitive process of finding an answer to any of these riddles has pleased me as much as that one did.


Alrighty then...

"Mongrel flycatcher".

I'm gonna take a leap and say Huan, the great hound of Valinor.

[Vilnas]

Thanks! I'm not sure that the intuitive process of finding an answer to any of these riddles has pleased me as much as that one did.


Alrighty then...

"Mongrel flycatcher".

I'm glad you liked it! It is getting harder and harder to come up with new angles for these riddles.

[BIGeyedBUG]

I'm gonna take a leap and say Huan, the great hound of Valinor.

Nope......

[KonstantinPalailogos]

Nope......

Well I got nothin' then

[Vilnas]

Thanks! I'm not sure that the intuitive process of finding an answer to any of these riddles has pleased me as much as that one did.


Alrighty then...

"Mongrel flycatcher".

I would say the lesser spiders of Ered Gorgoroth, but your question seems to suggest a singular answer. If so, then Shelob - the last child of Ungoliant to trouble an unhappy world (or something like that).

[BIGeyedBUG]

While I was hoping to prompt a Shelob response, as an answer she is far off the track.

[Vilnas]

I wasn't particularly happy with the applicability of "mongrel" to Shelob in any event.

Next guess: Old Man Willow (for the flesh eating plant angle)