curiouswombat: (Dwarves)
[personal profile] curiouswombat
Today is Tolkien Day. The Guardian has a quiz that you might want to try HERE.

S2C got 10/10. I got 9/10 from not actually reading properly... be warned!

Date: 25/03/2013 08:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tx-cronopio.livejournal.com
I only got 7/10, so I bow to your superiority!

Date: 25/03/2013 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Well I think that's pretty impressive!

Date: 25/03/2013 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huinare.livejournal.com
I got 9/10 because I couldn't remember which of two characters' POV the last question was from.

Date: 25/03/2013 08:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I had to make an educated guess at that one.

Date: 25/03/2013 08:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] jay-of-lasgalen.livejournal.com
Dammit! 9/10 - I need to read the answers more carefully :(

I didn't know the Elvish for the Barrow Downs, so that was an educated guess!

Date: 25/03/2013 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It was, I thought, a nicely taxing quiz - a little educated guess work was involved on my behalf,too.

Date: 25/03/2013 09:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] jay-of-lasgalen.livejournal.com
Yes, I do like quizzes where you need to think a little (even if I get something wrong!) Some are just a little too easy for a Tolkien geek like me ('Who is the master of Rivendell?')

Date: 25/03/2013 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bogwitch.livejournal.com
10! Though I'm not sure how.

Date: 25/03/2013 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Well done you!!

Date: 25/03/2013 09:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairistiona7.livejournal.com
I managed 9/10. Missed Kheled-zaram. I never was any good with Dwarvish!

Date: 25/03/2013 09:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I got that one, because I was involved with reading Tolkien aloud when they did that section.

Date: 25/03/2013 09:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] jay-of-lasgalen.livejournal.com
Me too! I put Khazad-Dum :(

Date: 25/03/2013 09:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairistiona7.livejournal.com
I put Dwimordene. Which on reflection makes me completely *headdesk*. But I don't think I would have picked the right one anyway!

Date: 25/03/2013 09:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Only 9!

*is ashamed*

Date: 25/03/2013 09:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Just goes to prove we aren't perfect :)

Date: 25/03/2013 09:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slaymesoftly.livejournal.com
LOL I failed miserably - but then, I thought I would. I reread The Hobbit fairly recently, but it's been a long time since I read any of the LotR books.

Date: 25/03/2013 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It was an interesting quiz, I thought. I really ought to reread The Hobbit sometime.

Date: 25/03/2013 09:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hobbituk.livejournal.com
I am a disgrace to my user name - I only got five... so I really need to re read the books, I guess!

Date: 25/03/2013 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Perhaps you might put it on your to-do list - a to-do list of nice things.

Date: 25/03/2013 10:09 pm (UTC)
kathyh: (Kathyh Aragorn sword)
From: [personal profile] kathyh
I got 8. I mixed up beginning to climb the Misty Mountains with travelling down the Anduin (which is obvious when you read it properly) and then couldn't tell the difference between Caradhras and the Lonely Mountain. Shame on me!

Date: 25/03/2013 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Question 1 was the one that I got wrong too - I missed that they were on a river as well...

Date: 26/03/2013 01:05 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] stormwreath.livejournal.com
Exactly the same result as me. I didn't think Caradhras was supposed to be grey!

Date: 26/03/2013 01:09 pm (UTC)
kathyh: (Kathyh Theoden rules)
From: [personal profile] kathyh
Cruel, yes. Grey, no!

Date: 25/03/2013 10:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] estelcontar1.livejournal.com
I got 10 out of 10, but only on the third trial. Question number 10 was my stumbling block.

Date: 25/03/2013 10:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I reckoned at 9/10, that I wanted to know which one I got wrong, so I only did it once... It was nicely taxing, I thought!

Date: 25/03/2013 10:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gillo
9/10 here - I got the Barrow Downs question wrong. I feel better knowing you missed one too.

Date: 25/03/2013 11:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I thought it was a good quiz - not too easy, but definitely with plenty of room to go wrong! 9/10 seems to be a most respectable score.

Date: 25/03/2013 10:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azalaisdep.livejournal.com
Oops, only 9/10 too! Do I get excommunicated? (Muddled up my mountains...)

[ETA: I see I'm in good company, so I feel better!]
Edited Date: 25/03/2013 10:52 pm (UTC)

Date: 25/03/2013 11:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Definitely in good company!

Date: 26/03/2013 02:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] green-maia.livejournal.com
I also got 9/10, also for muddling my mountains...

Date: 25/03/2013 11:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wheelrider.livejournal.com
10! (With one lucky guess, about the mountain -- I really didn't remember if it was the Lonely Mountain or Caradhras.

Whoever put it together is a true Tolkien geek. The message at the end of the quiz: "Congratulations. Peace is yours in the Undying Lands"

Glad you posted this! I was snowed in today and didn't realize the date.

Date: 26/03/2013 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It was a nicely taxing quiz for the Tolkienrim...I think 10/10 deserves a cookie!

Date: 26/03/2013 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bojojoti.livejournal.com
I'm destined for Mount Doom. Woe is me.

Date: 26/03/2013 10:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bojojoti.livejournal.com
And a second breakfast, I hope!

Date: 26/03/2013 10:52 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] speakr2customrs.livejournal.com
No, just a recipe for grilled eagle.

Date: 26/03/2013 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bojojoti.livejournal.com
Oh, dear. And me such an unaccomplished cook.

Date: 26/03/2013 06:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melegyrn.livejournal.com
Hee! Surprised myself and scored 10/10. Thanks for pointing this out. It made quite a nice end to an otherwise trying day. :-)

Date: 26/03/2013 10:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Congratulations! Glad to have improved things a little for you.

Date: 26/03/2013 10:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] engarian.livejournal.com
I was quite disgusted with myself - only 7/10! Shame on me for immersing myself into fanfic instead of the actual books for the past two years...

- Erulisse (one L)

Date: 26/03/2013 01:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Ooh - back to the books for you!! :P

Date: 26/03/2013 12:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] binkaslibrary.livejournal.com
Wooo hoo, 9/10, and I wasn't even sure I'd score 5, lol. Thank you for the link.

Date: 26/03/2013 01:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Good one, wasn't it? And well done you!
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Date: 26/03/2013 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Yay! Well done!

Date: 26/03/2013 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com
10/10 - though my head is in a specially Tolkien place right now ;-)

Date: 26/03/2013 09:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Mind you I think that was taking swotting for this a bit too far... :P

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