Poems And Names In LOTR Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mr Butterbur

Barliman Butterbur does appear in the movie, but is never named and plays a very minor part. A shame really, as he is one of my favourite side-characters from the book. A representative of the ordinary men, but still both clever and brave in his own way, helping the four hobbits and Strider on their way to Rivendell, even though he doesn't know them, or the pupose of their quest. Mr Underhill is Frodo's alias, Mr Appledore is one of the men mentioned as guests at the inn, and Tom Bombadil of course is the one with the yellow boots and the bright blue jacket, who saves the hobbits from Old Man Willow and the Barrow-wight.

Answer: the tipsy cat

The fiddle in question was five-stringed and the sound of it was what made the otherwise queenly cow dance and caper and jump over the moon. The Man in the Moon comes down to the inn to "drink his fill" of the brown ale, the little dog is fond of jests and the landlord is, well, the landlord!

Answer: Staddle

Bree is the chief village. Staddle is on the other side of Bree-hill, Combe is in a valley away eastward and Archet is situated on the edge of Chetwood (as described in the beginning of the chapter "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony").

Answer: All of these

He also recites the full poem for Frodo ("Three Rings for the Elven Kings under the sky ..." and so on), but this is actually the only line stated to be written on the ring.

Answer: Entwife

I couldn't resist putting this in, after all it is my handle. Treebeard speaks longingly of "the loveliness of Fimbrethil, of Wandlimb the lightfooted, in the days of our youth". Fimbrethil is Elvish, and is therefore of the same language (with mere dialect changes) as that used in Mirkwood, Lothlórien AND Gondor.

It's never clearly stated in the text, but as she starts off as an Entmaiden and is later among the Entwives, it's fair to suppose that Fimbrethil is in fact the wife of Treebeard.

Answer: Chamber of Mazarbul

The name is written in the "diary" book they find in the same room. "'Balin has set up his seat in the Chamber of Mazarbul.' 'The Chamber of Records,' said Gimli. 'I guess that is where we now stand.'"
As an Aside, there is a "Moria" mentioned in the Bible (Genesis) as well. Translated from the Swedish "Bibel 2000" it runs: "God said: 'Take your only son, him that you love, Isak, and go to the country of Moria and sacrifice him there ..." (Genesis 22:2). And "Abraham named this place 'the Lord names/picks/chooses'. Today it's called 'on the mountain where the Lord is seen'." (Genesis 22:14) In a note it further states that "to pick/choose, to be seen" is a play with the meaning of the Hebrew name "Moria".
What the connection is to Tolkien's name (which is the Elvish name and translates "black cavern") I don't know, but as far as Biblical places go, it's a fairly evocative one! (Sorry about the secondhand translation.)

Answer: Feänorian Characters

This might have been a tricky one. But it wasn't a sneak appendix question, it's written right under the picture of the doors "Here is written in the Feänorian characters according to the mode of Beleriand: ..." This alphabet or "the Tengwar of Feänor" was brought to Middle-earth by the Noldor and is a revised form of the letters of Rúmil (not used in Middle-earth).

The Alphabet of Daeron was a mixture of runes or the Cirth (actually elven to start off with, but used by men as well) and the Tengwar.

The alphabet of Daeron was later known as "Angerthas Moria or the Long Rune-rows of Moria" and was much used by the dwarves (for example in the inscription on Balin's tomb). "Dwarf runes" is not a name of any specific alphabet. (source: Appendix E, LotR)

Answer: 4

I really love this poem, and also the fact that it changes over time. Tolkien uses the technique of changing poems more than once of course, it's not just this song, but I think this is the one that's repeated the most. Bilbo is the first to sing it, as he sets off after having rid himself of the ring.

"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And wither then? I cannot say."
(p 35 of the HarperCollins 1995 paperback edition)

Next up is Frodo, while they are still in the Shire, but his feet are already "weary".(p 72)

When they reach Rivendell and Bilbo again, after the ring is destroyed, Bilbo half wishes he could have seen more of the world, but as he is now too old, he challenges others to follow the road, who can.

"Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet." (p 965)

Lastly Frodo sings it as he goes on his last journey to the Grey Havens. It ends

"A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden path that run West of the Moon,
East of the Sun." (p 1005)

Answer: True

Lothlórien, like so many other places and persons in the book, is known under many names. Laurelindórenan is what Treebeard calls it; "Land of the Valley of Singing Gold". Then he says that now it's shortened into Lothlórien, which means "Dreamflower".

Answer: We are not told

This is the inscription on Snowmane's mound. The horse ends up killing Théoden (he's his "master's bane") as he stands rampant with terror in front of the advancing Nazgûl King. Pierced by an arrow, Snowmane keels over, crushing the rider in his fall.
As an aside, the names "Rohan" and "Rohirrim" seems to have their roots in Sanskrit, the language that is the common link between all Indo-European languages (as far as I know). The words still exist in Hindi; "a-rohi" and "ashva-rohan" both means rider, ashva being the old Sanskrit word for horse.