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The Bard of the Rings Encore

J.R.R. Tolkien was an excellent poet as well as a supremely talented prose author. How well do you know his poetic embellishments to the tales of Middle Earth?

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Category: Literature > Fantasy Submitted By: unklemyke

Question #1

"A Elbereth Gilthoniel,/ silivren penna míriel" is from a poem written in which of the following languages?

Entish
Dwarfish
Elvish
Swahili

Question #2

Whose name goes in the blank? "The world was young, the mountains green, / No stain yet on the Moon was seen,/ No words were laid on stream or stone / When ________ woke and walked alone."

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Question #3

Who is being described here? "When evening in the Shire was grey/ his footsteps on the Hill were heard;/ before the dawn he went away/ on journey long without a word."

Bilbo
Gandalf
Meriadoc
Frodo

Question #4

Which of the Four Winds is NOT invoked in the "Lament for Boromir"?

North Wind
East Wind
South Wind
West Wind

Question #5

Who is the speaker of these lines? "The cold hard lands,/ they bites our hands,/ they gnaws our feet./ The rocks and stones/are like old bones/ all bare of meat."

Samwise
Gandalf
Shelob
Gollum

Question #6

Who is "the fallen" referred to in this verse? "Mourn not overmuch! Mighty was the fallen,/ meet was his ending. When his mound is raised,/ women then shall weep. War now calls us!"

Theoden
Gandalf
Aragorn
Saruman

Question #7

"Come athelas! come athelas!/ Life to the dying/ In the king's hand lying!" What is "athelas"?

A restorative used by the King in Gondor
A cure for the Black Breath
The herb used to heal Eowyn, Faramir, and Merry
All of the above

Question #8

The lines "Up the airy mountain/ Down the rushy glen,/ We daren't go a-hunting,/ For fear of little men;" can be found where?

In "The Hobbit"
In "The Fellowship of the Ring"
In "The Two Towers"
Nowhere in Tolkien's writings

Question #9

Who "sat alone on his seat of stone,/ And munched and mumbled a bare old bone"?

Gollum
Smeagol
Troll
The Witch-King

Question #10

What causes the conflict between Tom and Troll?

Troll stole Tom's uncle's shinbone from the grave.
Troll is sitting on Tom's uncle's gravestone.
Tom has a phobia about trolls.
Troll has indigestion.

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The Bard of the Rings Encore

Question #1

"A Elbereth Gilthoniel,/ silivren penna míriel" is from a poem written in which of the following languages?

Question #2

Whose name goes in the blank? "The world was young, the mountains green, / No stain yet on the Moon was seen,/ No words were laid on stream or stone / When ________ woke and walked alone."

Question #3

Who is being described here? "When evening in the Shire was grey/ his footsteps on the Hill were heard;/ before the dawn he went away/ on journey long without a word."

Question #4

Which of the Four Winds is NOT invoked in the "Lament for Boromir"?

Question #5

Who is the speaker of these lines? "The cold hard lands,/ they bites our hands,/ they gnaws our feet./ The rocks and stones/are like old bones/ all bare of meat."

Question #6

Who is "the fallen" referred to in this verse? "Mourn not overmuch! Mighty was the fallen,/ meet was his ending. When his mound is raised,/ women then shall weep. War now calls us!"

Question #7

"Come athelas! come athelas!/ Life to the dying/ In the king's hand lying!" What is "athelas"?

Question #8

The lines "Up the airy mountain/ Down the rushy glen,/ We daren't go a-hunting,/ For fear of little men;" can be found where?

Question #9

Who "sat alone on his seat of stone,/ And munched and mumbled a bare old bone"?

Question #10

What causes the conflict between Tom and Troll?

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The Bard of the Rings Encore

Question #1

"A Elbereth Gilthoniel,/ silivren penna míriel" is from a poem written in which of the following languages?

Question #2

Whose name goes in the blank? "The world was young, the mountains green, / No stain yet on the Moon was seen,/ No words were laid on stream or stone / When ________ woke and walked alone."

Question #3

Who is being described here? "When evening in the Shire was grey/ his footsteps on the Hill were heard;/ before the dawn he went away/ on journey long without a word."

Question #4

Which of the Four Winds is NOT invoked in the "Lament for Boromir"?

Question #5

Who is the speaker of these lines? "The cold hard lands,/ they bites our hands,/ they gnaws our feet./ The rocks and stones/are like old bones/ all bare of meat."

Question #6

Who is "the fallen" referred to in this verse? "Mourn not overmuch! Mighty was the fallen,/ meet was his ending. When his mound is raised,/ women then shall weep. War now calls us!"

Question #7

"Come athelas! come athelas!/ Life to the dying/ In the king's hand lying!" What is "athelas"?

Question #8

The lines "Up the airy mountain/ Down the rushy glen,/ We daren't go a-hunting,/ For fear of little men;" can be found where?

Question #9

Who "sat alone on his seat of stone,/ And munched and mumbled a bare old bone"?

Question #10

What causes the conflict between Tom and Troll?

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