Sorry, but I love to see what questions Grondy comes up with each day, and as he only asks another as the previous is answered, I'm going for it.
I think the trees peculiar to Lorien were Mallorn or more correctly, Mellyrn. These only grew in Lorien, Aman and after the War of the Ring, one in the Party Field in the Shire.

Chapter XVIII The Return Journey

In the end he would only take two small chests, one filled with silver, and the other with gold, such as one small pony could carry.

thanks Grondy. I have no idea about the answer for this one, so everyone is safe. If it is still unanswered tomorrow, I will look it up. but not tonight.
lol

I know because I've got a picture in front of me with him breaking Eowyn's arm with it...Front cover of Lords of middle Earth vol II... I'm still working on a way to make these pseudo-silmarils real though so someone else can have this one.

That is why I have not answered it yet Grondy.. I am trying to be nice.

But it had been 27 hours since I had posted the question, so you could have answered it then Mellie. And thanks for being nice.

So please answer it now so I can put up a new one and we can start the clock running again.

No, not a Nazgul sword Tommy. I think it might have been a mace, but I am too lazyand too cold to look it up at the moment.

Rednell gets the Pseudo-Silmaril. It was "a great black mace".


Whose words had turned King Th’oden into a wizened old man

A Pseudo-Silmaril to Mellie. Yes, Grima Wormtongue, while actually serving the cause of his paymaster, Saruman, was councilor to King Th’oden and undermined his strength with bad information.

Pick the odd man out and explain why: Oss’, Manw’, Ilmar’, Ol’rin, Eonw’.

Oh, thank you Mellie, I didn't think it was ever going to be answered.

You got it right by the way, so you get another Pseudo-Silmaril.


What did the setting sun of Durin's Day reveal to Bilbo

Actually my question was about the two trees of Yavanna, Laurelin and Telperion, which had nothing to do with the imposters Glingal and Bethil which were mere immitations of them. Since you have left the question open, though, I'll step in and say they were fashioned by Turgon and they stood in the Royal Courts in Gondolin.

From The Two Towers, Book III, chapter 4, Treebeard:

The broad, fertile plain hidden in the Echoraith, site of the kingdon of Gondolin. Tumladen seems to have been level, except for the ravine of Orfalch Echor and the hill of Amon Gwareth.

[Edited on 8/10/2002 by MelliotSandybanks]

Erm... cos they were hogging the remote control?




I'll get my coat.

Hang on, just a minute, lemme check here. *browsing through my bright and shiny new Robert Foster's Guide to ME*

Aha! It says there that at the time the other eight were waiting for their master to join them in Mordor, the Lord of the Nazgul was ruling Angmar (being the Witch-King of). But about 400 or 500 years later he joined them again, and being reunited they attacked Minas Ithil, which then became known as Minas Morgul.

All I could find, I'm afraid. Dunno if that's what you were looking for Grondy.

And Sauron send those eight on to prepare Mordor for his coming I guess. Cos he knew he was soon going to be driven out of Dol Guldur.

A flash of light from Galadriel's phial?

I'd say you could add Arwen to that question too.

They've all had Aragorn sat on them. Hasufel was a horse lent to him by Eomer, Roheryn was his own horse, and Arwen.... well...

Buttons (not chocolate, waistcoaty)

2?

Wow!, that was one of the longer posts I've seen from 42 recently. Just kidding, and she gets a Pseudo-Silmaril for her correct answer.

I think Eryan was just trying to one-up 42 for brevity, Val. Besides, it is hard to transmit lemon juice over the internet, the kind that secret postBodys can be written with anyway, so I think your experiment was doomed for failure.


Who had a butler called Galion

Val
I made a post supposed to be funny and then I decided that it is not sufficiently funny and I did not send it!
It was something of the sort, that if you think that the releation between Aragorn and Arwen can be reduced to the same sort of relation as that between Aragorn and Hasufel or Roheryn, then such sheer reductionism does not seem to me to be legitimate... Now you can learn what I wanted to say without putting fire to your monitor - and may try to write it in a funnier way!

Sam amd Cirdan, give me a hard one now I'm doing this again.

D@mn, there goes that joke, if I remember right (and they're all in one of the Appendices by the way) half of them were called Durin anyway.

Yes, except I told you I only knew the name of one of the seven, which is why if you knew any of the others I wanted the source. You can have another Pseudo-Silmaril, or a cuddly-badger, or a gummy-bear, or a jelly-baby for your effort.

And I found the answer to your question, but will wait 24 hours before providing my answer to allow the others to answer.

D@mn, I've got a nosebleed. We are experiencing our driest Summer/Indian-Summer in decades with no appreciable rain in the last three months. My nose is too dry and the webs between my fingers and toes have started to crack.

Well, if that is what Robert Foster's Guide to Middle-earth says, he's got it wrong, or rather backwards. Therefore, the Telcontari were the family of the House of Telcontar (Strider), similar to the Tudors were the family of the House of Tudor and the Plantagenets were the family of the House of Plantagenet, these latter two having been but two of the ruling families in the history of England.

Tommie gets the Pseudo-Silmaril because she had the right words.
Robert Foster gets a pan because he missed the point, or did I just read him wrong?


What was the main criticism in Edwin Muir's review of The Lord of the Rings, entitled 'A Boy's World'