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1. "I saw him ride over seven streams, over waters wide and gray;/I saw him walk in empty lands, until he passed away / Into the shadows of the North. / I saw him then no more." This is part of a long funeral song for which of the following?
2. When Merry and Pippin met Treebeard, he was puzzled by them, having never seen or heard of a hobbit before. He sang this song as he attempted to identify them: "Learn now the lore of the Living creatures! / First name the four, the free peoples: / Eldest of all, the elf-children; / Dwarf the delver, Dark are his houses;" The list does not include hobbits, so Merry and Pippin suggest this addition: "Half-grown hobbits, the - ?" Fill in the blank.
3. Who sings the following verse: " In the willow-meads of Tasarinan I walked in the Spring. / Ah! The sight and the smell of the Spring in Nan-tasarinan! / And I said that was good."?
4. The young Ent, Quickbeam, sang to the hobbits of his dead charges, that he calls "the people of the Rose": "..I saw you shine upon a summer's day / ..your crown is spilled, your voice is stilled for ever and a day." What sort of creatures are these?
5. When Gandalf meets again with Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, he brings this message for Aragorn: "Where now are the Dunedain, Elessar, Elessar? / Why do thy kinsfolk wander afar? / Near is the hour when the Lost should come forth, / And the Grey Company ride from the North." Who sent this message?
6. Fill in the blank: "_______, long under tree / In joy thou hast lived. Beware of the Sea! / If thou hearest the cry of the gull on the shore, / Thy heart shall then rest in the forest no more."
7. Gandalf sets this riddle for Theoden: "Ere iron was found or tree was hewn, / When young was mountain under moon; / Ere ring was made, or wrought was woe, / It walked the forests long ago." To what creatures did this riddle refer?
8. Pippin overhears Gandalf Singing this rhyme to himself: "Tall ships and tall kings / Three times three, / What brought they from the foundered land / Over the flowing sea? / Seven stars and seven stones / And one white tree." To what do the words "seven stones" refer?
9. Gollum repeats this riddle - first seen in "The Hobbit", to Frodo and Sam: "Alive without breath; / As cold as death; / Never thirsting, ever drinking; / clad in mail, never clinking." What is the answer to this riddle?
10. In the midst of great danger, Sam stands up and recites an old rhyme that makes Frodo laugh for a moment : "Grey as a mouse, / Big as a house, / Nose like a snake, / I make the earth shake, / As I tramp through the grass; / Trees crack as I pass." What is the modern name for the animal described here?
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