Saturday, September 26, 2015

Middle Earth Verse Quiz


Time for another quiz!  The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are filled with poetry and songs.  Here's your chance to see how well you know your Middle Earth Verse!  Below are ten seven selections from those two works, and I've made it easier on you by giving you multiple-choice answers on who recited these.  

Note that this is about who recited these, not who wrote them.  In same cases, I've provided the whole thing here, but sometimes I just took the first stanza or first few lines to save room.

I'll post the answers on Sunday, along with everyone's scores.  Good luck!

1. 
Down the swift dark stream you go
Back to lands you once did know!
Leave the halls and caverns deep,
Leave the northern mountains steep,
Where the forest wide and dim
Stoops in shadow grey and grim!

a.  Lorien Elves
b.  Rivendell Elves
c.  Woodland Elves


2.
The leaves were long, the grass was green,
     The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the glade a light was seen
     Of stars in shadow shimmering.
Tinuviel was dancing there
     To music of a pipe unseen,
And light of stars was in her hair,
     And in her raiment glimmering.

a.  Aragorn
b.  Bilbo
c.  Elrond


3.
Seek for the Sword that was broken:
     In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
     Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
     That Doom is near at hand,
For Isildur’s Bane shall waken,
     And the Halfling forth shall stand.

a.  Aragorn
b.  Boromir
c.  Gandalf


4.
When winter first begins to bite
     and stones crack in the frosty night,
when pools are black and trees are bare,
     ‘tis evil in the Wild to fare.

a.  Aragorn
b.  Bilbo
c.  Elrond


5.
The finest rockets ever seen:
they burst in stars of blue and green,
or after thunder golden showers
came falling like a rain of flowers.

a.  Frodo
b.  Merry
c.  Sam


6. 
Tall ships and tall kings
     Three times three,
What brought they from the foundered land
     Over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones
     And one white tree.

a.  Aragorn
b.  Boromir
c.  Gandalf


7.
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope’s end I rode and to heart’s breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

a.  Eomer
b.  Eowyn
c.  Theoden

Consulting the books is cheating!  Just reminding you...

14 comments:

  1. 1. c.
    2. a.
    3. b.
    4. b.
    5. c.
    6. c.
    7. c.

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  2. I'm mostly guessing! :) Here it goes!

    1. C. Woodland Elves
    2. A. Aragorn
    3. C. Gandalf
    4. A. Aragorn
    5. C. Sam
    6. B. Boromir
    7. C. Theoden

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  3. Ooh, nice! Here goes.

    1) c
    2) a
    3) b
    4) b
    5) c
    6) c
    7) a

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  4. 1) Woodland Elves

    2) Aragorn

    3) Boromir

    4) Bilbo

    5) Sam

    6) Gandalf

    7) Eomer

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  5. Harder than I thought....C B B A C A C

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  6. 1: c. Woodland Elves
    2: a. Aragorn
    3: b. Boromir
    4: b. Bilbo
    5: c. Sam
    6: c. Gandalf
    7: c. Eomer

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  7. 1. c
    2. a
    3. b
    4. a?
    5. c
    6. a?
    7. c

    I'm only seeing seven, should there be ten?

    ~Jacqueline

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  8. If i may give it a stab.

    1. a; 2. don't know; 3. c; 4. a; 5. c; 6. c; 7. c

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  9. Jacqueline, good catch! I'd initially tried ten, but I decided some were too tricky, so shaved it down to seven but forgot to change the number in the intro.

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  10. I'm confident that "a" is the answer to questions 1 and 2 and that "a" is probably the answer to questions 5 and 7. I'm not at all certain about the others so I'm just going to go with... "A" TO ALL! :D

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  11. 1. c. Woodland Elves
    2. a. Aragorn
    3. b. Boromir
    4. b. Bilbo
    5. c. Sam
    6. c. Gandalf
    7. a. Eomer
    Well, to be honest, I'm cheating. You can abandon my answers XD

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  12. 1. c.
    2. b.
    3. b.
    4. b.
    5. c,
    6. c.
    7. c.

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  13. Even though I think I'll be guessing at all of them, this looks like a fun game so I'm going to give it a try!
    1B
    2A
    3C
    4B
    5C
    6B
    7C

    Hope I get at least one right! Haha

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