Tolkien Day quiz.

[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!

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

I only got 7/10, so I bow to your superiority!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Well I think that's pretty impressive!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I got 9/10 because I couldn't remember which of two characters' POV the last question was from.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I had to make an educated guess at that one.

[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!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It was, I thought, a nicely taxing quiz - a little educated guess work was involved on my behalf,too.

[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?')

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

10! Though I'm not sure how.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Well done you!!

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I managed 9/10. Missed Kheled-zaram. I never was any good with Dwarvish!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I got that one, because I was involved with reading Tolkien aloud when they did that section.

[jay-of-lasgalen.livejournal.com]

Me too! I put Khazad-Dum :(

[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!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Only 9!

*is ashamed*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Just goes to prove we aren't perfect :)

[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.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It was an interesting quiz, I thought. I really ought to reread The Hobbit sometime.

[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!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you might put it on your to-do list - a to-do list of nice things.

[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!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Question 1 was the one that I got wrong too - I missed that they were on a river as well...

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

Exactly the same result as me. I didn't think Caradhras was supposed to be grey!

[kathyh]

Cruel, yes. Grey, no!

[estelcontar1.livejournal.com]

I got 10 out of 10, but only on the third trial. Question number 10 was my stumbling block.

[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!

[gillo]

9/10 here - I got the Barrow Downs question wrong. I feel better knowing you missed one too.

[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.

[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!]

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Definitely in good company!

[green-maia.livejournal.com]

I also got 9/10, also for muddling my mountains...

[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.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It was a nicely taxing quiz for the Tolkienrim...I think 10/10 deserves a cookie!

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

I'm destined for Mount Doom. Woe is me.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

We'll send eagles...

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

And a second breakfast, I hope!

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

No, just a recipe for grilled eagle.

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. And me such an unaccomplished cook.

[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. :-)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Glad to have improved things a little for you.

[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)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Ooh - back to the books for you!! :P

[binkaslibrary.livejournal.com]

Wooo hoo, 9/10, and I wasn't even sure I'd score 5, lol. Thank you for the link.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Good one, wasn't it? And well done you!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yay! Well done!

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

10/10 - though my head is in a specially Tolkien place right now ;-)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Mind you I think that was taking swotting for this a bit too far... :P