Thread: Obfuscated Tolkien Trivia

Originally Posted by bambubambubambu

I have another guess for this one...

Could this be referring to the Nazgul riding atop the fell beasts which they obtained from Minas Morgul?

Nope

Here's a hint: the answer is a named character from The Silmarillion.

Originally Posted by LoyKashka

Nope

Here's a hint: the answer is a named character from The Silmarillion.

Ancalagon, The Black

Some sources define this name (Ancalagon) as "Rushing Jaws" which could be expressed as "high-velocity chompers".

The Black: this could refer to a good light absorber (thanks to Vilnas for that hint).

Originally Posted by Boraxxe

Ancalagon, The Black

Some sources define this name (Ancalagon) as "Rushing Jaws" which could be expressed as "high-velocity chompers".

The Black: this could refer to a good light absorber (thanks to Vilnas for that hint).

Excellent, your turn!

Next one:

Extended canister extremity expander

Well, it's been 3 days.

There are 4 words in that riddle.
If you connect 2 of them with a hyphen it may help.

Originally Posted by Boraxxe

Next one:

Extended canister extremity expander

I think I finally have a guess for this one...

Could this be a reference to the barrels of Longbottom leaf found by Merry and Pippin in Isengard?

Originally Posted by bambubambubambu

I think I finally have a guess for this one...

Could this be a reference to the barrels of Longbottom leaf found by Merry and Pippin in Isengard?

You have it.

extended = long
canister-extremity = bottom
expander = leaf

You're up bambu^3.

Originally Posted by Boraxxe

You have it.

extended = long
canister-extremity = bottom
expander = leaf

You're up bambu^3.

In that case maybe they should affix a label to the barrels:

[Warning! Smoking this leaf may lead to more junk in your trunk.]

New riddle coming up soon...

Just stumbled across this thread today. Great fun!

I was waiting for something especially clever to come to me...

That didn't work so I'll just post this!

It is to be desired that quickly moving currents in the stratosphere, which are beneath such ailerons that do belong to yourselves, would prove sufficient to allow a destination to be reached wherein a solar voyage occurs as additionally does a lunar perambulation.

"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.
-J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

Originally Posted by Boraxxe

"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.
-J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

Yep figured it was too easy. You're up Boraxxe!

Ok then, here's a new one.

If, in future, repetition occurs, hurl your person within, and thus, increased negative stimulus shall be prevented.

Originally Posted by Boraxxe

Ok then, here's a new one.

If, in future, repetition occurs, hurl your person within, and thus, increased negative stimulus shall be prevented.

"Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance."

Originally Posted by Itharas

"Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance."

That's the one Itharas.

Now it's on you again.

Originally Posted by Boraxxe

That's the one Itharas.

Now it's on you again.

Okay, trying something a little different than I've done before. Let me know if you think it works or not. XD

lla ta doog on
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only thing to do

That was an interesting twist!

Bilbo speaking:

"Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!"
~J.R.R. Tolkien~The Hobbit


I will never admit how long I puzzled over "lla ta doog on".

That was well asked and answered. Nice work both of you.

Originally Posted by Vilnas

That was well asked and answered. Nice work both of you.

Yeah, that was fun. Thanks.

BTW Vilnas....don't you owe us a One-word clue?

Originally Posted by Boraxxe

That was an interesting twist!

Bilbo speaking:

"Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!"
~J.R.R. Tolkien~The Hobbit


I will never admit how long I puzzled over "lla ta doog on".

Glad you guys liked it. You're up, Boraxxe. xD

Probably too easy. I bet it doesn't last past noon (pst).

Different from an objectionable, soiled, moist cavity, packed with the extremities of lyttae

You are quoting from the introduction of The Hobbit where the narrator describes a hobbit hole. I don't have the text handy, but something to the effect of "Not a nasty, oozy wet hole with bits of worms sticking out..."

Originally Posted by Vilnas

You are quoting from the introduction of The Hobbit where the narrator describes a hobbit hole. I don't have the text handy, but something to the effect of "Not a nasty, oozy wet hole with bits of worms sticking out..."

You got it!

Here is the exact quote: "Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms..."
You were quite close drawing from your memory.

Next riddle:

Adult being having no deoxyribonucleic acid classified by a single fork, and concerning which a not unconcealed umbra is relevant.

Hmmm... Thuringwethil, Woman of secret shadow? Sauron's messenger?

That is it. Well done.

Thuringwethil has to be my favorite JRRT name in the whole canon.

Ok then. Here's my first try at this.

Congregation of perdurable organisms meticulously cogitating and contending on resolutions of communal significance.

Originally Posted by quetzalcoatl

Ok then. Here's my first try at this.

Congregation of perdurable organisms meticulously cogitating and contending on resolutions of communal significance.

I doubt that I have it right, but this is what your sentence lead me to think of.

Hobbits.
From; The Fellowship of the Ring:

The talk did not die down in nine or even ninety-nine days. The second disappearance of Mr. Bilbo Baggins was discussed in Hobbiton, and indeed all over the Shire, for a year and a day, and was remembered much longer than that. It became a fireside-story for young hobbits; and eventually Mad Baggins, who used to vanish with a bang and a flash and reappear with bags of jewels and gold, became a favourite character of legend and lived on long after all the true events were forgotten.

Not what I had in mind, but it fits pretty well--especially the communal significance.

I am looking for a one-word response.


I think I can expand the sentence by a few words and give it away... but I'll wait a little while first, if that's all right.

Could this be Ent-moot?

Originally Posted by Tuco

Could this be Ent-moot?

Great guess Tuco.

That's correct Tuco! You're up!

Abridged sobriquet comprised of métier, lacuna and illusorily entomological patronymic.

My wife claims I talk like that - she forbids it before 8 AM. My grandsons love learning new words at any hour, though.

Grima Wormtongue?

Originally Posted by Vilnas

Grima Wormtongue?

Good thought, but I don't see the 'abridged' part, and I'd usually call a worm an annelid.

Agreed. I wasn't particularly satisfied with the answer either.

This one has me stumped...

Nickname consisting of "forte/strength" and "space/gap/silence/interlude" and containing apparent reference to insects...

...beats head against wall...

Originally Posted by quetzalcoatl

This one has me stumped...

Nickname consisting of "forte/strength" and "space/gap/silence/interlude" and containing apparent reference to insects...

...beats head against wall...

I see where you're coming from -- I was going with the first meaning from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/m%C3%A9tier, but, like you, I usually think of it as the second meaning in normal speech.

Originally Posted by Tuco

Abridged sobriquet comprised of métier, lacuna and illusorily entomological patronymic.

The illusorily entomological reference is to larval diptera.

Originally Posted by Tuco

The illusorily entomological reference is to larval diptera.

Finally, that last clue did it. (I think!)

I was stuck thinking it related to one of the nicknames Bilbo gives himself to the dragon "stinging fly", but it didn't fit the first part of the sentence.


Anyway, how about "Farmer Maggot"?