I want to say..Galadriel. Since Gimli was astonished by her beauty. So after he made the bet with Eomer, he admits that she would have been the most beautiful, had he not seen Arwen first.
I want to say..Galadriel. Since Gimli was astonished by her beauty. So after he made the bet with Eomer, he admits that she would have been the most beautiful, had he not seen Arwen first.
Indeed, Galadriel is the answer.
This snippet from The Fellowship Of The Ring lead me to the "temptress" clue:
'To me it seemed exceedingly strange,' said Boromir. `Maybe it was only a test, and she thought to read our thoughts for her own good purpose; but almost I should have said that she was tempting us, and offering what she pretended to have the power to give. It need not be said that I refused to listen. The Men of Minas Tirith are true to their word.' But what he thought that the Lady had offered him Boromir did not tell.
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Okay, like Isilmacil's question, there are several answers that can work for this.
Wergild
I don't have the exact quote on hand, but I believe Isildur claimed the One Ring would be a wergild for the death of his father Elendil and his brother Anárion.
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Thror (Thorin's grandfather) was killed when he entered Moria to reclaim it for his people.
The orc chieftain Azog carved his name into Thror's decapitaied head and threw the head down to Thror's companion, Nar, with a bag of coins stuffed into the mouth of Thror.
This resulted in The War of The Dwarves and Orcs and when the dwarves eventually won, Thrain (Thror's son and Thorin's father) took Azog's severed head and stuffed a purse of coins in the mouth and placed it on a stake outside the Moria gate.
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I don't have the exact quote on hand, but I believe Isildur claimed the One Ring would be a wergild for the death of his father Elendil and his brother Anárion.
That's one of the answers I'll accept. You're up.
Well, I suppose you could always say "flame resistant sunglasses" if you prefer that to "shoes"
Taper: a small or very slender candle
or a source of feeble light.
So my guess is the lights Frodo and Sam saw in the Dead Marshes.
"...a wisp of pale sheen that faded away; but others appreared soon after: some like dimly shining smoke, some like misty flames flickering slowly above unseen candles..."
Well, I suppose you could always say "flame resistant sunglasses" if you prefer that to "shoes"
A couple of paragraphs later we hear Gollum speak of these:
Gollum looked up. A dark water was before him, and he was crawling on the ground, this way and that, doubtful of the way. 'Yes, they are all round us,' he whispered. 'The tricksy lights. Candles of corpses, yes, yes. Don't you heed them! Don't look! Don't follow them! Where's the master? '
You're up Itharas.
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"Thus spoke Malbeth the Seer, in the days of Arvedui, last king of Fornost..."
TRotK: The Passing of the Grey Company
Also, Malbeth's foretelling of said Arvedui as last king:
It is said that this name was given to him at his birth by Malbeth the Seer, who said to his father: "Arvedui you shall call him, for he will be the last in Arthedain..."
Cardolan translates as "red hill land".
Cardolan is the old region of Arnor that was between the Baranduin (Brandywine) and Mitheithel (Hoarwell) rivers and south of the Great East Road.
So maybe Rose-land = Cardolan.
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Cardolan translates as "red hill land".
Cardolan is the old region of Arnor that was between the Baranduin (Brandywine) and Mitheithel (Hoarwell) rivers and south of the Great East Road.
So maybe Rose-land = Cardolan.
Wait, I finally come up with one that isn't a literal translation, and there actually is a translation I could have used?
Not Cardolan.
Well, I suppose you could always say "flame resistant sunglasses" if you prefer that to "shoes"
Okay, I'll present a long and tortuous argument (which means its probably wrong!).
Bregalad (Quickbeam) speaks of his rowan-trees as 'the people of the Rose':
The oldest were planted by the Ents to try and please the Entwives; but they looked at them and smiled and said that they knew where whiter blossom and richer fruit were growing. Yet there are no trees of all that race, the people of the Rose, that are so beautiful to me.
TTT Chapter 4
We know Bregalad was one of Skinbark's people:
But beside them Bregalad spoke gently in their own tongue, almost whispering; and they learned that he belonged to Skinbark's people, and the country where they had lived had been ravaged.
TTT Chapter 4
We know Skinbark lived on the mountains west of Isengard:
Skinbark lived on the mountain-slopes west of Isengard. That is where the worst trouble has been. He was wounded by the Orcs, and many of his folk and his tree-herds have been murdered and destroyed.
TTT Chapter 4
So... In the mountains west of Isengard there is the 'rose-land' where many rowans (which do indeed belong to the rose family Rosaceae) used to live, before they were destroyed by Saruman.
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