Answers to the Middle Earth Verse Quiz

Here are the answers to the Middle Earth Verse Quiz!  And below are everyone's scores.  Thanks for playing!

1. c.  Woodland Elves

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!

2. a.  Aragorn

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.

3. b.  Boromir

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.

4. b.  Bilbo

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.

5. c.  Sam

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.

6. c.  Gandalf

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.

7. a.  Eomer

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!

SCORES:

Carissa -- 7
Erudessa Aranduriel -- 7
Olivia -- 7
Edith -- 6
Manette -- 6
Jacqueline -- 4
Joseph -- 3
Morgan Mickschl -- 3
Natalie -- 3
Hannah (Miss Daydreamer) -- 2
Nicrap -- 2

Answers to Middle Earth Locations Quiz

Here are the answers for the locations quiz!  Scores are below.

1.  The Argonath on the Rivier Anduin

2.  The Doors of Durin, entrance to Moria

3.  Rivendell (Imladris)

4.  Minas Tirith in Gondor

5.  Mount Doom in Mordor

6.  Meduseld at Edoras, in Rohan

7.  Bag End in Hobbiton, in the Shire

8.  Dale

9.  Laketown (Esgaroth)

10.  Orthanc at Isengard

I accepted variations on most of those (Orthanc or Isengard, or either Edoras or Meduseld, for instance), but if you just put "Gondor" or "Rohan" or "Mordor," I felt like that was too general and didn't give you the point.  Does that make sense?  

SCORES:

Carissa -- 10
Edith -- 10
Erudessa Aranduriel -- 10
Isaac Benjamin -- 10
Manette -- 10
Reyna Nicole -- 10
Sarah -- 10
Bzee -- 9
Lois J. -- 9
Lynn M. -- 9
Olivia -- 9
Jacqueline -- 8
Morgan Mickschl -- 7

Answers to "Lord of the Rings Food Quiz"

Here are the answers to the food quiz, including which chapter they take place in.  Scores are below!  I thought this was an incredibly hard game, but look!  Quite a few people did very well indeed.

1.  Gimli (The Fellowship of the Ring, "Farewell to Lorien")

2.  Frodo, Sam, Pippin, Gildor, and other High Elves (The Fellowship of the Ring, "Three is Company")

3.  Merry, Pippin, Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn (The Two Towers, "Flotsam and Jetsam")

4.  Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin (The Fellowship of the Ring, "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony")

5.  Frodo, Sam, and Faramir (The Two Towers, "The Window on the West")

6.  Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Farmer Maggot, and Mrs. Maggot (The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Short Cut to Mushrooms")

7.  Merry, Pippin, and Treebeard (The Two Towers, "Treebeard")

8.  Pippin and Beregond (The Return of the King, "Minas Tirith")

9.  Frodo, Sam, Pippin, Merry, Tom Bombadil, and Goldberry (The Fellowship of the Ring, "In the House of Tom Bombadil")

10.  Pippin, Gandalf, and Denethor (The Return of the King, "Minas Tirith")

SCORES:  
(Possible High Score of 46)

Edith -- 46
Erudessa Aranduriel -- 46
Lynn M. -- 42
Sarah -- 41
Patricia T. -- 33
Isaac Benjamin -- 26
James the Movie Reviewer -- 19
RM Lutz -- 14
Laura Y. -- 12
Jacqueline -- 5

Don't forget to download your free Hobbit cookbook from the link included in the quiz post if you haven't yet!  Thanks again to Sarah Rees for sharing it with all of us.

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...

Middle Earth Locations Quiz

So this is kind of an easy game this year.  Ten locations as seen in Peter Jackson's six films, and you just have to name them!  Leave your answers in the comments, and I'll post the answers and scores on Monday.

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"Lord of the Rings" Food Quiz and a Gift for You

Tolkien talks about eating and drinking a lot, but he doesn't often describe what's being consumed.  But I found ten times in The Lord of the Rings where he did describe food or drink.  (I'm leaving out The Hobbit so this doesn't get too complicated.)  

Your job is to figure out who was eating or drinking what he described and leave a comment with your guesses.  I've told you in parentheses how many named characters are eating or drinking in the scene.  You get 1 point for each correct character name and 1 bonus point if you can name which of the three books it is in.  Possible high score of 46!  

I'll post the answers and scores on Monday.  And be sure to read all the way to the end for a free gift from one of our giveaway sponsors!


1.  The food was mostly in the form of very thin cakes, made of a meal that was baked a light brown on the outside, and inside was the colour of cream.  (1)

2.  ...there was bread, surpassing the savour of a fair white loaf to one who is starving; and fruits sweet as wildberries and richer than the tended fruits of gardens; he drained a cup that was filled with a fragrant draught, cool as a clear fountain, golden as a summer afternoon. (4)

3.  "...this is first-rate salted pork.  Or I can cut you some rashers of bacon and broil them, if you like.  I am sorry there is no green stuff:  the deliveries have been rather interrupted in the last few days!  I cannot offer you anything to follow but butter and honey for your bread." (5)

4.  There was hot soup, cold meats, a blackberry tart, new loaves, slabs of butter, and half a ripe cheese... (4)

5.  ...to drink pale yellow wine, cool and fragrant, and eat bread and butter, and salted meats, and dried fruits, and good red cheese, with clean hands and clean knives and plates. (3)

6.  There was beer in plenty, and a mighty dish of mushrooms and bacon... (5)

7.  The drink was like water... and yet there was some scent or savour in it which they could not describe:  it was faint, but it reminded them of the smell of a distant wood borne from afar by a cool breeze at night. (3)

8.  They got there bread, and butter, and cheese and apples:  the last of the winter store, wrinkled but sound and sweet; and a leather flagon of new-drawn ale, and wooden platters and cups. (2)

9.  The drink in their drinking-bowls seemed to be clear cold water, yet it went to their hearts like wine and set free their voices. (6)

10.  Then men came bearing a chair and a low stool, and one brought a salver with a silver flagon and cups, and white cakes. (3)


(Yes, this is a hard game.  Tomorrow's will be really easy, though!)

Now for that gift I mentioned.  It's from Sarah Rees, who runs the wonderful Etsy shop The Ring and the Lion and has donated a prize to this party every year.  This year she is also giving away PDF copies of Recipes from the Shire, a collection of recipes she has adapted or created to reflect food you would eat if you were a hobbit.  Click here for the downloadable PDF, which she is giving to this party's participants for free!  Thank you so much, Sarah -- you are an awesome Tolkien fan and lovely friend!

Answers to the Middle Earth Costumes Quiz

You people are really good at this.  I'm impressed!  Anyway, here are the answers to the costumes quiz, and below those are the scores for all participants.  Well done!

1 -- Boromir

2 -- Saruman

3 -- Frodo

4 -- Legolas

5 -- Merry

6 -- Pippin

7 -- Aragorn

8 -- Theoden

9 -- Denethor

10 -- Eowyn

11 -- Bilbo

12 -- Elrond

13 -- Sam

14 -- Gandalf

15 -- Faramir

16 -- Arwen

Scores:

Elizabeth Anne D. -- 16
Reyna Nicole -- 16
Sarah (of Sarah'Sword) -- 15
Manette -- 14
Joanna -- 11

Answers to the Tolkien Quote Game

Here are the answers to who said what in the quote game!  And below the answers are everyone's scores :-)

Answers:

1.  "Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall."  -- Aragorn, (TTT)

2.  "Many that live deserve death.  And some that die deserve life." -- Gandalf (FOTR)

3.  "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself." -- Denethor (ROTK)

4.  "String, or nothing!" -- Gollum (TH)

5.  "If I hear not allowed much oftner, I'm going to get angry." -- Samwise Gamgee (ROTK)

6.  "Wherever I have been, I am back." -- Gandalf (TTT)

7.  "Forth now, and fear no darkness!" -- Theoden (ROTK)

8.  "Don't go where I can't follow!" -- Samwise Gamgee (TTT)

9.  "We are a failing people, a springless autumn." -- Faramir (TTT)

10.  "That was an eye-opener, and no mistake!" -- Samwise Gamgee (FOTR)

11.  "Go where you must go, and hope!" -- Gandalf (TTT)

12.  "Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing?" -- Boromir (FOTR)

13.  "One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters." -- Aragorn (TTT)

14.  "May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!" -- Gandalf (FOTR)

15.  "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -- Thorin (TH)


Scores:

Lynn M. -- 15
Lydia -- 14
Sarah (of the Ring and the Lion) -- 13
Manette -- 10
Hannah Mary -- 8
Elizabeth Anne D. -- 6
Sarah (of Sarah'Sword) -- 5
Joanna -- 4

Well done, everyone!  I'm glad you had fun with this :-)

Middle Earth Costumes Quiz

Relatively simple game today.  These are screencaps I took from Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy, and you just have to tell me who the characters are!  I did try to do a few tricky ones that are costumes I might not recognize right off myself, but I assure you these are all major characters (no Eothains or Gamlings), and that no characters are used more than once.

I'll post the answers on Saturday, along with people's scores.

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Sorry that this is a day late.  Thanks for all the party participation so far!  Please don't forget you can get the questions to answer on your own blog here, and enter the giveaways here!