Middle Earth Peoples Trivia

1. Unfortunately for the Dwarves, their colonization of the Ered Mithrin was not peaceful. Around the year 2570 of the Third Age, a particular type of dragons started to harass them. Which type?

From Quiz More Than a Stunted Race 3

Answer: Cold-drakes

Cold-drakes were dragons unable to produce fire, and thus they were less destructive than Fire-drakes. They may have been used by the Dark Lord Morgoth in his wars during the First Age, but no mention of them occurs before they made war on the Dwarves. Even after that war, they disappear into obscurity. When Gandalf mentions the perils of the Grey Mountains to Thorin and Company in "The Hobbit", which describes events taking place in TA 2941, he makes no mention of them, It is possible that the Orcs who occupied the Grey Mountains after they had been abandoned by Durin's Folk drove the Dragons back to the cold wastes of the Forodwaith.

From Quiz More Than a Stunted Race 2

Answer: Longbeards

The Longbeards are otherwise known as Durin's Folk. They originally lived at the city of Khazad-dum under the Misty Mountains. At the Second Age, the splendor of Khazad-dum became renowned in the entire Westlands of Middle-Earth. The main source of its wealth was the metal known as Mithril. At the year 1980 of the Third Age, the Dwarves accidentally awakened a Balrog of Morgoth, a demon of fire and shadow, which was felled by Istar Gandalf the Grey, whom the Dwarves call Tharkun, when the Fellowship of the Ring passed through the city. Khazad-dum was reclaimed by Dwarf king Durin VII.

From Quiz I'm a Hobbit, Not a Dwarf!

Answer: JRR Tolkien

The very first time that the literary world saw these characters was September 21st, 1937 in JRR Tolkien's novel "The Hobbit".

From Quiz The Troubled History of Elvo-Dwarvish Relations

Answer: Aule

Aule, like his fellow Valar, was so excited about the coming of the Elves - "to have learners to whom he could teach his lore and his crafts" - that he couldn't wait and created some beings of his own. Because the form the Elves were to take was unclear to him, he made the Dwarves "even as they are now". Although they seem happy as they are, is it possible that the Dwarves' jaundiced attitude toward the Elves springs at least partly from bitterness at their own lack of height, unearthly beauty, and wonderful singing voices? In any case, Iluvatar, master of the Valar, would not permit any other people to appear in Middle-Earth before his own creations and the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves were "laid to rest in far-sundered places" to sleep until their better-looking counterparts had gotten to make their own appearance. Elvo-Dwarvish relations were off to a bad start.

From Quiz Eldar

Answer: 1

Elves age mentally far more rapidly than mortal Men and have an astonishing grasp on language and arts at a very early age. However, they age far slower physically. An Elf, for example, at the age of twenty, might appear to be the same age as a human seven-year-old.

From Quiz Sundering of the Elves

Answer: Quendi

The Elves were awakened by Eru Iluvatar near the lake Cuivienen. For a long time, they were living under the stars near the Water of Awakening, exploring the Earth and giving names to all the things they met. They gave themselves the name "Quendi", that means "They, who speak with voices", because they hadn't met any other living creatures with the faculty of speech. Even after the Sundering, the name "Quendi" continued to refer to all the Elves.

From Quiz Durin's Folk

Answer: Durin the Deathless

He began the building of Khazad-dum. His name came from his vast age and the belief that one day he would rise again.

From Quiz Monsters of Middle Earth

Answer: Melkor

Melkor captured elves and imprisoned and tortured them in the Pit of Utumno. He bred the first orcs from those former elves.

From Quiz Getting To Know The Hobbits

Answer: Stoors

The Stoors were orginally from the upper regions above the River Anduin and they were the last of the breeds to leave the highlands to eventually settle in the Dunland area during the 14th century.

From Quiz Hobbit History

Answer: mathom

In "Fellowship, Extended" Gandalf remarked that Bilbo had once owned a coat of mithril, or true silver, that was probably still gathering dust in the Michel Delving Mathom House. This surprised Gimli very much.

From Quiz The Elves from "The Lord of the Rings"

Answer: The Firstborn of Illúvatar

The Elves also went by the name of Children of the Earth. They were the first to be born on Middle Earth. They awoke under the stars and grew a love for them.

From Quiz The Races of Middle-earth

Answer: Quenya & Sindarin

Quenya is the Ancient Tongue and Sindarin is the Noble Tongue.

From Quiz Concerning Hobbits

Answer: men

Though men are louder, bigger, and less attentive than hobbits, we are their closest relatives.

From Quiz Elven Gods: The Valar

Answer: Iluvatar

This is in the opening line of the book!

From Quiz The Nazgul

Answer: 9 & nine

The Nazgul were comprised of nine beings that used to be men. These men were given the Nine Rings of power by Sauron in the Second Age.

From Quiz Riders of Rohan

Answer: Rhovanion

Most likely this is true, as they were close in kin with the Beornings and with Gondor. They were fair-skinned and blond haired, lovers of the open and of horses.

From Quiz Eldamar And The Eldar Princes

Answer: Ingwe

He was born as the very first at the shores of Cuivinien.

From Quiz Secondborn of Iluvatar - Men

Answer: Hildorien

Hildorien was a land in the far East of Middle-Earth. It took the first Men nearly three centuries of wandering to reach Beleriand.

From Quiz The Firstborn of Iluvatar - the Elves

Answer: Cuivenen

They mingled near the shores of the lake until being discovered by the Vala Orome.

From Quiz Dwarves of Tolkien

Answer: Iluvatar

Iluvatar sensed that there was no evil in Aule's heart and breathed life into his creations. However, he would not allow them to awake before the Firstborn, the Elves.

From Quiz Tolkien's Elves

Answer: Elrond & Peredhil

Elrond Halfelven was the herald of Gil-Galad at the last alliance of Elves and Men when Sauron was overthrown at the end of the Second Age. He wields the strongest of the elven-rings, Vilya. He rules the haven of Rivendell, and, through the powers of his ring, has strengthened the area. He is the father of Arwen Evenstar, and was the protector of Aragorn in his childhood. Elrond, throughout the story of "Lord of the Rings", plays the role of the conservative. His wisdom is great, but he fears the change that is about to engulf the Middle-earth.

From Quiz Tolkien Trivia: The Valar

Answer: Manwe

He was sometimes called the 'Elder King' also.

From Quiz More Than a Stunted Race 3

Answer: Iron Hlls

It was the Dwarf Gror, third son of Dain I, who led his people to the Iron Hills. There they prospered and became the strongest realm in the north of Middle-Earth. As Gandalf later remarked, the Iron Hills stood between Sauron and his plans for a revival of the Kingdom of Angmar and the eventual downfall of Rivendell and Lothlorien.

From Quiz More Than a Stunted Race 2

Answer: Durin III

The Doors were situated near the Sirannon stream. They could open only if someone said the Elvish word for "friend", "mellon". The Doors were destroyed by the mysterious Watcher in the Water when the Fellowship of the Ring passed through Khazad-dum. The Watcher had occupied a nearby pool and had been awakened or irritated by the stones Boromir threwh at the pool. It is possible that they were reconstructed when the Dwarves reoccupied their homeland.

From Quiz The members of the White Council

Answer: Nenya

Galadriel's ring was one of the three rings forged by the elves of Eregion and given to the elves. After the One Ring of power, the three elven rings are the most powerful of the 20 rings given to the different races in Middle-earth. Nenya is made of mithril and had a white stone which is thought to be a diamond. The name Nenya means water but Galadriel's ring is also called the Ring of Adamant, meaning the ring of a legendary rock or mineral, or the White Ring because of its colour.

From Quiz Sundering of the Elves

Answer: Avari

When the Valar learned that the Elves had awakened near Cuivienen, decided to rescue them from Melkor's Shadow and attacked Utumno. At the War of Powers, Melkor was defeated, captured and brought to Valinor. Then, the Valar decided that the best for the Elves was to come to Valinor and sent Orome to call them. But some Elves refused to follow Orome, preferring Middle-earth than the rumors about the Trees of Valinor. They were called "Avari", which means "The Unwilling", "They, who refused the summoning".

From Quiz Durin's Folk

Answer: Longbeards

The Seven Fathers of the Dwarves were placed in different locations to await their awakening. Durin the Deathless awoke at Mount Gundabad in the Misty Mountains.

From Quiz Getting To Know The Hobbits

Answer: Harfoots

The Harfoots are by far the most numerous of the breeds and prefer mostly to stay in one place rather than to travel.

From Quiz The Races of Middle-earth

Answer: Man

Hobbits call men "Big Folk" or "Big People".

From Quiz Proud Numenor

Answer: The White Tower of Eressea in the Undying Lands

The Valar could certainly be faulted in retrospect for allowing the Numenoreans this tantalizing glimpse of immortal lands. Surely the whisperings of Sauron that played on the Numenorean's fear of death would have had less effect if the object of their desire had not been concretely visible to them.

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