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Telchar · 11-08-2001, 09:57 AM

Where did Pippin look in the Palantir?

11-08-2001, 10:11 PM

at the towers of orthanc when wormtongue threw it at gandalf

Telchar · 11-09-2001, 04:19 AM

NO - where did he look "in" the palantir, not "at" it....

Lostgaeriel · 11-09-2001, 10:06 AM

Pippin looked into the Palantir at the camp teh Rohirrim made at the glen or dale at Dol Baran.

Telchar · 11-12-2001, 03:50 AM

Excactly Lostgaeriel [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Go no, please.

Lostgaeriel · 11-12-2001, 02:41 PM

Took me some time to come up with this one. But I'm always trying to work these things out as I read LOTR anyway to get a real sense of scale. (And it's partly the engineering student in me!)

Assuming that Frodo’s estimate of the height of the cliff at the Emyn Muil, and Sam’s estimate of the length of the Elven rope were the actual measurements, to 1 decimal place, how much longer than the cliff height was the rope? Please give the answer in feet, to two significant figures. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

(Rather convenient that the first place that the cliff was low enough and easy enough to climb, they found that their rope was just the right length for the job, and that finally there were tree stumps on which to tie the rope. Mmmmm. Proof for the non-existence of God?)

[ November 12, 2001: Message edited by: Lostgaeriel ]

The Laurenendorian · 11-12-2001, 04:03 PM

Well, it depends on what sort of ell he is talking about. Assuming the English ell; 45 inches:

30 * 45 = 1350 inches

18 * 72 = 1296 inches

Leaving a deficit of 54 inches, or 4** and a half feet.

Telchar · 11-13-2001, 06:38 AM

HI Lostgaeriel - there is of course many proofs of the non-exsistence of god... I like thisone better [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

“The Babel fish,” said The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quietly, “is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy not from its carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel
fish.

“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

“The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’

“`But,’ says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’

“`Oh dear,’ says God, `I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.

“`Oh, that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

“Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo’s kidneys, but that didn’t stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his bestselling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God.

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloddier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

Eowyn of Ithilien · 11-13-2001, 08:36 AM

[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] that whole series is brilliant!!!!
I like the "It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realised that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass"

Kin-strife · 11-13-2001, 10:18 AM

One of my favourites has to be:

Quote:

The mattress globbered. This is the noise made by a live, swamp dwelling mattress that is deeply moved by a story of personal tragedy. The word can also, according to The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary of Every Language Ever, mean the noise made by the Lord High Sanvalvwag of Hollop on discovering that he has forgotten his wife's birthday for the second year running. Since there was only ever one Lord High Sanvalvwag of Hollop, and he never married, the word is only ever used in a negative or speculative sense, and there is an ever increasing body of opinion which holds that The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary is not worth the fleet of lorries it takes to cart its microstored edition around in. Strangely enough the dictionary omits the word 'floopily', which simply means 'in the manner of something which is floopy'.

The Laurenendorian · 11-13-2001, 11:31 AM

I think that the babel-fish reference was implied in his first post.

Does this make it my go?

Lostgaeriel · 11-13-2001, 08:18 PM

WOW! What a lot of HHGTTG fans there are here! (Telchar: You're sharp. It was the Babel Fish proof that I was thinking of in my aside!)

The Laurenendorian: You answered the LOTR question correctly. So your turn.

[ November 13, 2001: Message edited by: Lostgaeriel ]

Telchar · 11-14-2001, 02:55 AM

JRR Tolkien and Douglas Adams (Both late [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] ) is the only writers that I enjoy reading over and over again for completely different reasons [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] jygnantonix anyone??

The Laurenendorian · 11-19-2001, 01:51 PM

Who, or what, was 'Summerfilth'?

Telchar · 11-20-2001, 02:12 AM

Summerfilth was as I understand it an imagenary month used in the Shire expression ‘on Friday the first of Summerfilth’.. In the Shire calendar no month started on a Friday - Can you imagine Bilbo going:

Quote:

Hi Lobilia, See you on Friday the first???

[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

The Laurenendorian · 11-20-2001, 10:40 AM

Is the correct answer - I love that phrase. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Your turn.

Telchar · 11-21-2001, 02:25 AM

who visited the old gaffer on the night Frodo left the Shire? (Please, be precise)

Eowyn of Ithilien · 11-21-2001, 03:20 AM

a Black Rider...who enquired after a Bagginssss...and the Gaffer doesn't like ironmongery whether it where's well or no

Beregond · 11-21-2001, 08:57 AM

And his name was Khamul... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Telchar · 11-22-2001, 02:03 AM

Sorry Eowyn [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] but I have to give it to Beregond [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Beregond · 11-30-2001, 08:28 AM

OK. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

When Faramir talked to Denethor after he came back from meeting Frodo, what was the first thing brought to them? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Lostgaeriel · 11-30-2001, 08:36 AM

Wasn't wine brought to Faramir when he first sat down to report to Denethor?

Pippin · 11-30-2001, 09:30 AM

...and white bread too.

Theodred21 · 12-15-2001, 08:54 PM

Bere? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Marileangorifurnimaluim · 12-16-2001, 09:32 PM

Technically, as there was no brazier of hot coals during Pippin's first audience with Denethor, but the chairs were set around a brazier in the discussion with Faramir, the brazier had to have been brought first. But the wine was next.

How picky do you want to be?

Watcher in the Water · 03-07-2002, 10:41 PM

Okie Doke... I will revive this little baby just cause i want to ask a question...

Easy one - How old was Lobelia Sackville-Baggins when she was imprisoned?

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-07-2002, 11:06 PM

Quote:

more than a hundred

Watcher in the Water · 03-08-2002, 12:18 AM

Thats how i remembered it... continue...

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-08-2002, 12:30 AM

Did Tom Bombadil have wings? And who was the Balrog of Moria?
Just kidding. Here's the question:

Where was Ioreth's kinswoman from?

Watcher in the Water · 03-08-2002, 01:01 AM

Yes Tom Bombadill had wings, they sprouted whenever he smoked the "Peace Pipe" and the Balrog of Moria was actually a shy spirit called Colby...

And I cant remember properly where Ioreths kinswoman was from so I will take a stab and say Lossenarch (spelling i know... its almost home form work time on a friday so i think i could be excused!)

[img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-08-2002, 01:14 AM

Nope!

Joy · 03-08-2002, 01:27 AM

Is it Imloth Melui??

Bruce MacCulloch · 03-08-2002, 01:45 AM

That's right, Joy. Your turn.

11-08-2001, 09:57 AM	#1
Telchar Stonehearted Dwarf Smith Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 2,247	LOTR TRIVIA Where did Pippin look in the Palantir? __________________ Anar Kaluva Tielyanna.

11-09-2001, 04:19 AM	#3
Telchar Stonehearted Dwarf Smith Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 2,247	NO - where did he look "in" the palantir, not "at" it.... __________________ Anar Kaluva Tielyanna.

11-09-2001, 10:06 AM	#4
Lostgaeriel Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Toronto the Good Posts: 477	Pippin looked into the Palantir at the camp teh Rohirrim made at the glen or dale at Dol Baran. __________________ Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

11-12-2001, 03:50 AM	#5
Telchar Stonehearted Dwarf Smith Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 2,247	Excactly Lostgaeriel [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Go no, please. __________________ Anar Kaluva Tielyanna.

11-12-2001, 02:41 PM	#6
Lostgaeriel Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Toronto the Good Posts: 477	Took me some time to come up with this one. But I'm always trying to work these things out as I read LOTR anyway to get a real sense of scale. (And it's partly the engineering student in me!) Assuming that Frodo’s estimate of the height of the cliff at the Emyn Muil, and Sam’s estimate of the length of the Elven rope were the actual measurements, to 1 decimal place, how much longer than the cliff height was the rope? Please give the answer in feet, to two significant figures. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] (Rather convenient that the first place that the cliff was low enough and easy enough to climb, they found that their rope was just the right length for the job, and that finally there were tree stumps on which to tie the rope. Mmmmm. Proof for the non-existence of God?) [ November 12, 2001: Message edited by: Lostgaeriel ] __________________ Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

11-08-2001, 10:11 PM	#2
Tz-Mc Guest Posts: n/a	at the towers of orthanc when wormtongue threw it at gandalf

11-12-2001, 04:03 PM	#7
The Laurenendorian Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Taruithorn Posts: 57	Well, it depends on what sort of ell he is talking about. Assuming the English ell; 45 inches: 30 * 45 = 1350 inches 18 * 72 = 1296 inches Leaving a deficit of 54 inches, or 4** and a half feet. __________________ And Beren desperate then aside / thrust Lúthien, and forth did stride, unarmed, defenceless to defend / Tinúviel until the end

11-13-2001, 06:38 AM	#8
Telchar Stonehearted Dwarf Smith Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 2,247	HI Lostgaeriel - there is of course many proofs of the non-exsistence of god... I like thisone better [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] “The Babel fish,” said The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quietly, “is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy not from its carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. “Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. “The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’ “`But,’ says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’ “`Oh dear,’ says God, `I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. “`Oh, that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. “Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo’s kidneys, but that didn’t stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his bestselling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God. “Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloddier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” __________________ Anar Kaluva Tielyanna.

11-13-2001, 08:36 AM	#9
Eowyn of Ithilien Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Australia Posts: 277	[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] that whole series is brilliant!!!! I like the "It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realised that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass" __________________ But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.

11-13-2001, 11:31 AM	#11
The Laurenendorian Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Taruithorn Posts: 57	I think that the babel-fish reference was implied in his first post. Does this make it my go? __________________ And Beren desperate then aside / thrust Lúthien, and forth did stride, unarmed, defenceless to defend / Tinúviel until the end

11-13-2001, 08:18 PM	#12
Lostgaeriel Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Toronto the Good Posts: 477	WOW! What a lot of HHGTTG fans there are here! (Telchar: You're sharp. It was the Babel Fish proof that I was thinking of in my aside!) The Laurenendorian: You answered the LOTR question correctly. So your turn. [ November 13, 2001: Message edited by: Lostgaeriel ] __________________ Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

11-14-2001, 02:55 AM	#13
Telchar Stonehearted Dwarf Smith Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 2,247	JRR Tolkien and Douglas Adams (Both late [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] ) is the only writers that I enjoy reading over and over again for completely different reasons [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] jygnantonix anyone?? __________________ Anar Kaluva Tielyanna.

11-19-2001, 01:51 PM	#14
The Laurenendorian Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Taruithorn Posts: 57	Who, or what, was 'Summerfilth'? __________________ And Beren desperate then aside / thrust Lúthien, and forth did stride, unarmed, defenceless to defend / Tinúviel until the end

11-20-2001, 10:40 AM	#16
The Laurenendorian Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Taruithorn Posts: 57	Is the correct answer - I love that phrase. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Your turn. __________________ And Beren desperate then aside / thrust Lúthien, and forth did stride, unarmed, defenceless to defend / Tinúviel until the end

11-21-2001, 02:25 AM	#17
Telchar Stonehearted Dwarf Smith Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 2,247	who visited the old gaffer on the night Frodo left the Shire? (Please, be precise) __________________ Anar Kaluva Tielyanna.

11-21-2001, 03:20 AM	#18
Eowyn of Ithilien Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Australia Posts: 277	a Black Rider...who enquired after a Bagginssss...and the Gaffer doesn't like ironmongery whether it where's well or no __________________ But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.

11-21-2001, 08:57 AM	#19
Beregond Playful Ghoul Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,251	And his name was Khamul... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ "Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green."

11-22-2001, 02:03 AM	#20
Telchar Stonehearted Dwarf Smith Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 2,247	Sorry Eowyn [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] but I have to give it to Beregond [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ Anar Kaluva Tielyanna.

11-30-2001, 08:28 AM	#21
Beregond Playful Ghoul Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,251	OK. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] When Faramir talked to Denethor after he came back from meeting Frodo, what was the first thing brought to them? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ "Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green."

11-30-2001, 08:36 AM	#22
Lostgaeriel Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Toronto the Good Posts: 477	Wasn't wine brought to Faramir when he first sat down to report to Denethor? __________________ Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

11-30-2001, 09:30 AM	#23
Pippin Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: I don't know, I'm lost! Posts: 85	...and white bread too. __________________ never mind the pint.... does it come in gallons???

12-15-2001, 08:54 PM	#24
Theodred21 Phantom Rider Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Edoras, Rohan Posts: 1,213	Bere? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ Rohan All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not whither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken: The crownless again shall be king. -The Riddle of Strider

12-16-2001, 09:32 PM	#25
Marileangorifurnimaluim Eerie Forest Spectre Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Buried in scrolls of fanfiction Posts: 798	Technically, as there was no brazier of hot coals during Pippin's first audience with Denethor, but the chairs were set around a brazier in the discussion with Faramir, the brazier had to have been brought first. But the wine was next. How picky do you want to be? __________________ Deserves death! I daresay he does... And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them?

03-07-2002, 10:41 PM	#26
Watcher in the Water Animated Skeleton Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Green Dragon Posts: 48	Okie Doke... I will revive this little baby just cause i want to ask a question... Easy one - How old was Lobelia Sackville-Baggins when she was imprisoned? __________________ The Road Goes Ever On and On...

03-08-2002, 12:18 AM	#28
Watcher in the Water Animated Skeleton Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Green Dragon Posts: 48	Thats how i remembered it... continue... __________________ The Road Goes Ever On and On...

03-08-2002, 12:30 AM	#29
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	Did Tom Bombadil have wings? And who was the Balrog of Moria? Just kidding. Here's the question: Where was Ioreth's kinswoman from? __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'

03-08-2002, 01:01 AM	#30
Watcher in the Water Animated Skeleton Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Green Dragon Posts: 48	Yes Tom Bombadill had wings, they sprouted whenever he smoked the "Peace Pipe" and the Balrog of Moria was actually a shy spirit called Colby... And I cant remember properly where Ioreths kinswoman was from so I will take a stab and say Lossenarch (spelling i know... its almost home form work time on a friday so i think i could be excused!) [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ The Road Goes Ever On and On...

03-08-2002, 01:14 AM	#31
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	Nope! __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'

03-08-2002, 01:27 AM	#32
Joy Spirit of a Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wandering Posts: 1,012	Is it Imloth Melui?? __________________ God bless, Joy KingdomWarrior@hotmail.com http://kingdomWarrior.jlym.com As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

03-08-2002, 01:45 AM	#33
Bruce MacCulloch Dead Man of Dunharrow Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 651	That's right, Joy. Your turn. __________________ `A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'