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1. Perhaps the most famous words in this book are these: " 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 ". They were sung first by Bilbo as he set off from Bag End for the last time, after his birthday party. Once through singing, he walked away into the night. Did he go alone?
2. Next in line, and possibly just as well known, is the Ring-verse. All you have to do is finish the phrase: " One Ring to rule them all / One Ring to find them / One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them / In the land of Mordor where the..."
3. We've all heard Billy Boyd's beautiful onscreen rendition of this poem: " Home is behind, the world ahead, / And there are many paths to tread / Through shadows to the edge of night, / Until the stars are all alight." But can you remember the last sentence of this cheerful walking - song?
4. As Frodo and company travelled from the Shire, they met a company of people who were singing a song to a lady: " Snow-White! Snow-White! O Lady clear! / O Queen beyond the Western Seas! / O Light to us that wander here / Amid the world of woven trees!" What is the name of this lady?
5. In Frodo's house at Crickhollow, Pippin - thoroughly enjoying himself in the washroom - sings a rowdy song in praise of what?
6. Wandering in the Old Forest, Frodo and Sam are beside themselves, until they hear Tom Bombadil booming out, "Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! / Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! / Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!" Why did they run to Tom with cries for help?
7. The Hobbits were trapped in a most desperate situation, which only Frodo was capable of getting them out of. He sang this song as a cry for help: "Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! / By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow, / By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! / Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!" By what terrible creatures were the hobbits imprisoned?
8. "There is an inn, a merry old inn / beneath an old grey hill, / And there they brew a beer so brown / That the Man in the Moon himself came down / one night to drink his fill." So begins a merry song which Frodo sings at The Prancing Pony. Tolkien implies that a shadow of this song is remembered in which well-known nursery rhyme?
9. Travelling through the Wild with the mysterious Strider, the other hobbits are surprised when Sam breaks into an old song: "Gil-galad was an Elven-king. / Of him the harpers sadly sing: / the last whose realm was fair and free / between the Mountains and the Sea." Gil-galad, whom the song speaks of, was the doomed captain of an Elven army fighting in which battle?
10. At the Council of Elrond, one person spoke of a verse which had come to him in a dream and driven him to come to Rivendell. The verse was this: "Seek for the Sword that was broken: / In Imladris it dwells; / There shall be counsels taken / Stronger than Morgul-spells. / There shall be shown a token / That Doom is near at hand, / For Isildur's Bane shall waken, / And the Halfling forth shall stand." Who quoted this verse?
11. Gandalf chants, "Annon edhellen, edro hi ammen! / Fennas nogothrim, lasto beth lammen!", while attempting what task?
12. "The world was young, the mountains green, / No stain yet on the Moon was seen, / No words were laid on stream or stone / When Durin woke and walked alone. / He named the nameless hills and dells; / He drank from yet untasted wells; / He sttoped and looked in Mirrormere, / And saw a crown of stars appear, / As gems upon a silver thread, / Above the shadow of his head." This was a long song sung by Gimli in the Mines of Moria. Or was it? You decide.
13. Who was the maiden described in this verse sung by Legolas? "An Elven-maid there was of old, / A shining star by day: / Her mantle white was hemmed with gold, / Her shoes of silver-grey. // A star was bound upon her brows, / A light was on her hair / As sun upon the golden boughs / in Lorien the fair."
14. Frodo, while listening to the Elves singing, wrote this song in lament of Gandalf's death: "A lord of wisdom throned he sat, / swift in anger, quick to laugh; / an old man in a battered hat / who leaned upon a thorny staff." What name did the Elves most love to call Gandalf by?
15. Upon the departure of the Fellowship from Lorien, Galadriel sang this song in her own toungue, as a farewell: "Namarie! Nai hiruvalye Valimar. / Nai elye hiruva. / Namarie!" What is the meaning of the word Namarie?
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