Thread: Two-word Tolkien Trivia

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As a last try I'll give away the forefather's name in a few hours...
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Stab in the dark:

Beor -> Beorn

Hmm. Earendil and Elendil?

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You got the forefather right, but not yet the answer. It's a huge improvement though

Reminder: The unidentical namesake is the second from last
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I think the answer clearly then is Eärendil and Eärnil II, though I am not enough of an expert to know the full story on how the two names are related linguistically. Care to fill us in Urwendil?

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You have it Wilros, congrats

To put it briefly, the Quenya suffixes -ndil and -ndur apparently lived into Sindarin but went through the regular mutations of the language, hence nd > nn/n. Final vowels are also lost in Sindarin, thus ëarë > ëar. Therefore we have Earnil for Earendil and Earnur for Earendur.

Here's a blog post of mine explaining my user name:
http://mouzafphaerre.wordpress.com/2...endilurwendur/

Your turn sir
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I feel like I didn't earn the answer on this one at all, but I'll post an easy one for somebody to guess:

Sunshade Warrior

Originally Posted by Wilros

I feel like I didn't earn the answer on this one at all, but I'll post an easy one for somebody to guess:

Sunshade Warrior

Lobelia Sackville-Baggins

Is it Samwise Gamgee When he rescues Frodo from Whats-that-tower-named?

Originally Posted by Boraxxe

Lobelia Sackville-Baggins

Yup. Going after Sharkey's ruffians with an umbrella earned her some real stret cred!

Next one:

hat trick

A hat trick btw is three successes of the same kind. So ummm yeah. That is my bit of info. I have no idea what it is...YET.

Yes, as a Canadian I am most familiar with hat trick referencing a hockey player who scores 3 goals in a single game. Fans often throw hats onto the ice if a player from the home team completes a hat trick.

Thinking of Middle Earth, there are several different ways to try and apply this, but the first thing that comes to my mind is Huan the Hound speaking 3 times.

Originally Posted by Wilros

Yes, as a Canadian I am most familiar with hat trick referencing a hockey player who scores 3 goals in a single game. Fans often throw hats onto the ice if a player from the home team completes a hat trick.

Thinking of Middle Earth, there are several different ways to try and apply this, but the first thing that comes to my mind is Huan the Hound speaking 3 times.

Right track, wrong train.
3 items, not actions.

Originally Posted by Boraxxe

Right track, wrong train.
3 items, not actions.

Are those three items under the sky?

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The Silmarilli?
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The three elven rings of power? Narya, Nenya, and Vilya?

Well, it is clear that folks are on to the "3" components involved with a hat trick, but I think I need to move you all back on track.

A hat trick is usually thought of as accomplishing 3 feats. Like 3 hockey goals in a row, or 3 home runs in a row.

Might this be the three messes Bilbo managed to help the dwarves with in the Erebor quest?

Originally Posted by bambubambubambu

Might this be the three messes Bilbo managed to help the dwarves with in the Erebor quest?

bambu³ that's not a bad guess. In fact if you can explain what 3 messes you mean, and no one comes up with what I had in mind, I just may declare that the answer.

Originally Posted by c_the_awesome

A hat trick btw is three successes of the same kind. So ummm yeah. That is my bit of info. I have no idea what it is...YET.

unless its a Gordie Howe hat trick =P

hmm...Glamdring, Orcrist and Sting beeing found at the troll cave after the three trolls (William, Bert and Tom) were turned to stone?

Still a lot of different ways to take this one. I will make another attempt with the 3 main battles that the Fellowship members were involved with and won: Battle of the Hornburg, the Battle of Pelennor Fields, and the Battle of Morannon.

Originally Posted by Galthonviel

hmm...Glamdring, Orcrist and Sting beeing found at the troll cave after the three trolls (William, Bert and Tom) were turned to stone?

This is so close I will have to call it.
What I was looking for was the three trolls (which you named).
Gandalf took out all three by keeping them preoccupied until the sun rose and turned them to stone.

Yer up Galthonviel.

I hope I make sense here.


fuses silver

Originally Posted by Galthonviel

I hope I make sense here.


fuses silver

Here's a wag:

Celebrimbor.

He made the writing on the doors of Moria with ithildin, an alloy made with mithril (true silver).

Originally Posted by Boraxxe

bambu³ that's not a bad guess. In fact if you can explain what 3 messes you mean, and no one comes up with what I had in mind, I just may declare that the answer.

I know it's already passed, but I was thinkin' about when Bilbo quoted his father saying 'Third time pays for all' or something like that. The three messes Bilbo was refferring to were saving the dwarves from the spiders, freeing them from the Elf King's prison, and lastly facing the dragon if I recall correct.

Originally Posted by bambubambubambu

I know it's already passed, but I was thinkin' about when Bilbo quoted his father saying 'Third time pays for all' or something like that. The three messes Bilbo was refferring to were saving the dwarves from the spiders, freeing them from the Elf King's prison, and lastly facing the dragon if I recall correct.

I remember the "Third time" quote.
But I don't think he really got them out of a mess with the dragon...more like getting them into one.
I can think of one other accomplishment that he was responsible for that could qualify as getting them out of a mess. Maybe there are others...
Bilbo was the one that realized that the sun was setting on Durin's day and the last rays were going to land right on the spot where they thought the door would be. He hurried Thorin up to get the key out just as the keyhole was forming by rock flaking off of the wall. If they hadn't got that key into the keyhole just then the hole would have closed up and they would have had to wait another year for the next Durin's day.