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    Re: One-word Tolkien Trivia

    Quote Originally Posted by sir-rinthian View Post
    Celeborn was a tree?
    Gandalf skipped a generation. Nimloth came from Celeborn which came from Galathilion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arasilion View Post
    Gandalf skipped a generation. Nimloth came from Celeborn which came from Galathilion.
    Interesting... I did not know that (obviously )


    How bout another, less important,

    Tree?
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    The one Luthien was kept in?

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    Nope!

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    Re: One-word Tolkien Trivia

    The Party Tree in Hobbiton.

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    The tree the Hobbits hid in?

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    I would have said the Party Tree, but seeing that answer is taken:

    The Mallorn gifted to Samwise that replaced the Party Tree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cutholen View Post
    I would have said the Party Tree, but seeing that answer is taken:

    The Mallorn gifted to Samwise that replaced the Party Tree.
    You are correct, sir!
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    Quote Originally Posted by sir-rinthian View Post
    You are correct, sir!
    Ah, so we have the oldest tree and the newest tree that JRRT wrote about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boraxxe View Post
    Ah, so we have the oldest tree and the newest tree that JRRT wrote about.
    Indeed we do

    Someone else will have to ask now, as I'm coming up with nothing.
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    Re: One-word Tolkien Trivia

    Hand

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    Re: One-word Tolkien Trivia

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    Hand

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    Beren (Camlost?)

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    Re: One-word Tolkien Trivia

    or Saruman?

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    Re: One-word Tolkien Trivia

    Any easy one while we are waiting for confirmation on "hand".

    How about "butler"?

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    Re: One-word Tolkien Trivia

    Quote Originally Posted by Vilnas View Post
    Any easy one while we are waiting for confirmation on "hand".

    How about "butler"?
    Nob or Hob or whatever his name was?
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    Re: One-word Tolkien Trivia

    One of King Thranduil's servants. His title was "butler". He was a bit of a wino.
    Bilbo suckered him and got the dwarves outa jail.

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    Re: One-word Tolkien Trivia

    Quote Originally Posted by Boraxxe View Post
    One of King Thranduil's servants. His title was "butler". He was a bit of a wino.
    Bilbo suckered him and got the dwarves outa jail.
    The butlers name was Galion

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    Re: One-word Tolkien Trivia

    Not Beren or Saruman.

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    The crawling hand of the barrow wight Frodo severed in the barrow downs.

    "Of course I am the only elf in the village"

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    Nope.

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    Hand

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    I would hazard that it is Maedhros that you have in mind. He was hung by his right hand from the walls of Thangorodrim by Morgoth; and later rescued by Fingon, who cut his hand of to do so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Morthaur View Post
    The butlers name was Galion
    That is correct. Galion the butler also happens to be the only elf with a given name in the entire Hobbit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vilnas View Post
    That is correct. Galion the butler also happens to be the only elf with a given name in the entire Hobbit.
    you mean besides elrond and thranduil? that's an interesting tidbit i didn't realize...

    who's turn?

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    who's turn?
    Not sure, but here's a new one.

    Rapunzel?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boraxxe View Post
    Not sure, but here's a new one.

    Rapunzel?
    Luthien Tinuviel, who let down her hair to escape the tree house she was held in when Thingol realized she would go after Beren.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cutholen View Post
    I would hazard that it is Maedhros that you have in mind. He was hung by his right hand from the walls of Thangorodrim by Morgoth; and later rescued by Fingon, who cut his hand of to do so.
    Yup.

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    Tater?


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    Mash 'em, boil 'em, put them in stew, but you can keep your nasty chips, Precious.



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    Quote Originally Posted by aleczander View Post
    you mean besides elrond and thranduil? that's an interesting tidbit i didn't realize...

    who's turn?
    elrond is named, thranduil is not. hes simply called the elven king

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    elrond is named, thranduil is not. hes simply called the elven king
    Ah, but I said the only elf to be named. I did not include half-elves in my statement.

    Actually, I should allow for the possibility that Bladorthin was an elf, but the name certainly doesn't sound elvish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cutholen View Post
    Luthien Tinuviel, who let down her hair to escape the tree house she was held in when Thingol realized she would go after Beren.
    Yes. Luthien is correct.

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    What did I have today, yesterday and looks like getting again tomorrow?.

    "Of course I am the only elf in the village"

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    Death?

    To keep this riddle from being classified with Amnesty International as a potential Human Rights Violation, the answer I'm looking for is in The Hobbit. I'll also say that to the best of my knowledge it's in harmony with the Cutholen Standard, to wit:

    Please, the clue is not arbitrary. There are no doubt hundreds, if not thousands of x's for any given x in Tolkien's works; and I am not making you play a guessing game amongst all those hundreds of things. The answer when found will also be found to fit the clue exactly, and uniquely.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Morthaur View Post
    What did I have today, yesterday and looks like getting again tomorrow?.
    any Hobbit worth his salt would say "Lunch!"
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    On the right track but no.

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    Mutton according to one of the trolls in The Hobbit.
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    Correct, well done!

    "Of course I am the only elf in the village"

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    Death?

    To keep this riddle from being classified with Amnesty International as a potential Human Rights Violation, the answer I'm looking for is in The Hobbit. I'll also say that to the best of my knowledge it's in harmony with the Cutholen Standard, to wit:
    Smaug's breath.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vilnas View Post
    Ah, but I said the only elf to be named. I did not include half-elves in my statement.

    Actually, I should allow for the possibility that Bladorthin was an elf, but the name certainly doesn't sound elvish.
    However, the name Bladorthin seems to be of Elvish origin. The first part blador, elsewhere found in Bladorwen, another name for Yavanna which is glossed as "the wide earth", "Mother Earth" (in Tolkien's GnomishLexicon? related words are blant 'flat, open, expansive, candid', blath 'floor', bladwen 'a plain'). The second part, -thin represents the Sindarin element 'grey'. Christopher Gilson suggests (in a letter to Vinyar Tengwar 17:1) that blador could also be an agent noun of the meaning 'wanderer, ranger, pilgrim'. Hence Bladorthin could (like Mithrandir) be rendered to "grey pilgrim".
    http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?Bladorthin

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vilnas View Post
    Mash 'em, boil 'em, put them in stew, but you can keep your nasty chips, Precious.



    [I suppose a proper answer would be Samwise Gamgee, or else Gollum responding to Sam.]
    Yep, yep, and yep. Easy enough
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