The Revised Tolkien Trivia

[pyan]

Originally Posted by Marky Lazer

The Hobbit, Ch. 19 The Last Stage

Majimaune, it's really up to Pyan to give you the thread or no, though I'd like to point out to you the rules being given in the very first post. It's a quoting trivia after all. (Not trying to discourage you from joining, though. The contrary really!!)

And, technially Pyan, you weren't allowed yet to ask a new question

Well, yes - but as there is really no need for a confirmation, given the chances of there being two identical quotations, I thought .....
And a PM would have corrected me a bit less publicly.

Do as you wish, Marky.

[Majimaune]

Originally Posted by Marky Lazer

Majimaune, it's really up to Pyan to give you the thread or no, though I'd like to point out to you the rules being given in the very first post. It's a quoting trivia after all. (Not trying to discourage you from joining, though. The contrary really!!)

Well I would do all the stuff I need to but I was a bit pressed for time and so yeah...Oh well never mind

[Marky Lazer]

Here we go again.

What is a twelve-mile cousin?

[Marky Lazer]

Pyan, you didn't sneak off on some kind of silly holiday without telling me, did you?

[pyan]

No, I'm trying to decide if I'm still in or not.

[Marky Lazer]

Why would you be out?

[pyan]

See PM...

[pyan]

12 mile cousin.

In the Shire etiquette, at the date of the Party,'expectation of receiving' was linited to second cousins or nearer kin, and to residence within 12 miles.*

*(footnote) Hence the Hobbit expression 'a twelve-mile cousin' for a person who stickled for the law, and recognised no obligations beyond its precise interpretation .....

Letters: 214: To A.C. Nunn (draft)

[Marky Lazer]

Yay! And we quoted The Letters at last! If that don't deserve two bells, nothing does! *sews bells to cap*

[pyan]

Ok, then -
Which two of Gollum's riddles did JRRT not make up himself?

[pyan]

How you doing there, Marky?

[Marky Lazer]

I just read it a few days ago, but I'm at a mate's now; don't have The Letters here...

[Majimaune]

No-legs lay on one-leg, two legs sat near on three legs, four legs got some.

I think that one and this one.

Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking

Both were guesses. Its just I think that they don't sound very Tolkienish.

[pyan]

Afraid not, Maj!

[Marky Lazer]

As for the Riddles: they are 'all my own work' except for 'Thirty White Horses' which is traditional, and 'No-legs'.

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: 110: From a letter to Allen & Unwin