The Unofficial LOTR Quiz Thread (Est. Fri Oct 15, 2004)

Éomund · **Posted:** Sun May 11, 2014 7:58 am

You are right daersalon, your turn for a question

Coenus Scaldingus · **Joined:** Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:14 am **Posts:** 1121

daersalon wrote:

Pryftan

Trips off the tongue.. huh?

I quite like it: looks pretty Welsh, and given how a dragon is their national symbol...

daersalon · **Joined:** Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:34 am **Posts:** 265

Here goes, my question:

From what creature was the Horn of Gondor, that Boromir carried, made?

mertaal · **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2014 1:15 pm

The Great Horn was made from the "White Ox of the East". It was never referred to as the Horn of Gondor in Tolkien's literature.

Draugluin · **Posted:** Mon May 12, 2014 6:04 pm

The actual term for the beast was "Kine of Araw" if I remember correctly.

daersalon · **Joined:** Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:34 am **Posts:** 265

" 'Verily,' said Denethor. 'And in my turn I bore it, and so did each eldest son of our house, far back into the vanished years before the failing of the kings, since Vorondil
father of Mardil hunted the wild kine of Araw in the far fields of Rhun.'"

Mertaal gets an honourable mention, but specifically it I was looking for the "Kine of Araw".

btw Kine is the archaic plural of cow.

So as it is a cow not an ox, and Drauglin had the full name, he's up next.

mertaal · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2014 11:46 am

I bow to Dragulin's superior knowledge on the subject! Looks like the "oxen of the east" were the descendants of the creature in question.

However, on a pedantic side note:

ox (ɒks)

n., pl. ox•en for 1,2, ox•es for 3.
1. any of various large, bulky bovids, as domestic cattle, water buffaloes, and yaks, esp. a castrated adult male used as a draft animal.
2. Informal. a clumsy, stupid fellow.
[before 900; Middle English oxe, Old English oxa; c. Old High German ohso (German Ochse), Old Norse uxi, oxi]

Draugluin · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2014 8:53 pm

I won't have too much internet access for the next 2 weeks, so you can go Mertaal.

mertaal · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2014 8:56 pm

Sure thing fella.

Ok, an easy one. Who were Arwen and Aragorn's nearest common ancestors?

daersalon · **Joined:** Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:34 am **Posts:** 265

Mmm well Arwen's Granny and Grandpa were Eärendil and Elwing, who were Aragorn's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-(runs out of greats...) grandparents too...

Eärendil the human,and Elwing the elf-maid. Having two sons Elros the Half-Elven who chose humanity and founded Numenor and of course Elrond the Half-Elven, well who doesn't know ol' Elrond???

I Am Frodo · **Posted:** Thu Dec 25, 2014 5:41 am

This thread dead?

Sir Richard · **Posted:** Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:38 am

It would appear so. You can go next if you want. We should add a rule that if the person who posted the question does not reply within a week or two weeks, we should just assume it's right and the person who guessed first can take a turn. Just an idea to keep it running.

I Am Frodo · **Posted:** Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:31 am

Righteo ill do an easy one

Who said that the WK of Angmar couldnt be killed by any man?

Reto · **Posted:** Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:43 am

Was it Glorfindel?

I Am Frodo · **Posted:** Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:36 pm

Yeap, your turn

Reto · **Posted:** Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:05 pm

who killed Mim the dwarf?

abcdefg · **Joined:** Mon May 28, 2012 3:52 pm **Posts:** 273

Was it Hurin?

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:41 am

It was Turin.

Feanorthenoldor · **Joined:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:44 pm **Posts:** 879

abcdefg is right, it's was hurin

abcdefg · **Joined:** Mon May 28, 2012 3:52 pm **Posts:** 273

Here's a hard one:

What are the two possible origins of the Elfstone given to Aragorn by Galadriel?

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