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Quiz about Who Sang This Tolkiens Works
Quiz about Who Sang This Tolkiens Works

Who Sang This? (Tolkien's Works) Quiz


In this quiz, you will be given a portion of a song or verse and you will have to identify who sang it. Warning: verses come from 'The Hobbit', 'Lord of the Rings', and 'The Silmarillion'. Good luck :)

A multiple-choice quiz by Elessar_Elessar. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
23,085
Updated
Aug 03 23
# Qns
10
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Avg Score
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Question 1 of 10
1. Who sang: 'In western lands beneath the Sun the flowers may rise in Spring, the trees may bud, the waters run, the merry finches sing'? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Who sang: 'Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Luthien Tinuviel more fair than mortal tongue can tell.'? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Who sang: 'Far over Misty Mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day, To seek the pale enchanted gold.'? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Who sang: 'Old fat spider spinning in a tree! Old fat spider can't see me!'? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Who sang: 'To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.'? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Who sang: 'Cold be hand and heart and bone, And cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead.'? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Who sang: 'Troll sat alone on his seat of stone, And munched and mumbled a bare old bone'? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Who sang: 'The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled!'? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Who sang: 'When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough; When light is on the wild-wood stream, and wind is on the brow'? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Who is 'he' in: 'He chanted a song of wizardry, of piercing, opening, of treachery'? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Who sang: 'In western lands beneath the Sun the flowers may rise in Spring, the trees may bud, the waters run, the merry finches sing'?

Answer: Sam

When Sam was looking for Frodo who was held prisoner in Cirith Ungol, he sang this song.
2. Who sang: 'Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Luthien Tinuviel more fair than mortal tongue can tell.'?

Answer: Beren

In the chapter Of Beren and Luthien, in the Silmarillion, Beren is singing about Luthien just as he leaves her sleeping. He is on a quest for the Silmaril.
3. Who sang: 'Far over Misty Mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day, To seek the pale enchanted gold.'?

Answer: Thorin and Company

In 'The Hobbit', Thorin and his Co. sing about their quest to steal back what was theirs from Smaug.
4. Who sang: 'Old fat spider spinning in a tree! Old fat spider can't see me!'?

Answer: Bilbo

In 'The Hobbit' when Bilbo rescued the dwarves from the spiders in Mirkwood, he infuriated them by singing this song.
5. Who sang: 'To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.'?

Answer: Legolas

Legolas sung this near the end of 'The Return of the King'.
6. Who sang: 'Cold be hand and heart and bone, And cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead.'?

Answer: Barrow-wight

The Barrow-wight chanted this before the Hobbits were rescued by Tom Bombadil.
7. Who sang: 'Troll sat alone on his seat of stone, And munched and mumbled a bare old bone'?

Answer: Sam

When Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin were travelling with Aragorn on their way to Rivendell, they found three stone trolls who had happened to be the same trolls from Bilbo's adventures. Sam then sang this song.
8. Who sang: 'The dragon is withered, His bones are now {crumbled;} His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled!'?

Answer: Elves of Rivendell

It was the Elves of Rivendell. They sung this as Bilbo made his way back from the Lonely Mountain through Rivendell on his way to the Shire.
9. Who sang: 'When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the {bough;} When light is on the wild-wood stream, and wind is on the brow'?

Answer: Treebeard

It was Treebeard singing about the Entwives. 'Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is fair!'
10. Who is 'he' in: 'He chanted a song of wizardry, of piercing, opening, of treachery'?

Answer: Sauron

This is from Of Beren and Luthien in 'The Silmarillion'. One of my fav verses. It tells of the battle between Sauron and Finrod Felagund.
Source: Author Elessar_Elessar

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