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  • fizzix
    Prophet
    • Aug 2009
    • 3025

    Very difficult LOTR quiz

    Fancy yourself truly knowledgable about Lord of the Rings? See how many of the answers you can get on this quiz:



    I knew none of them. But maybe could have gotten 2 correct if I thought a lot. Most I had no chance at.
  • Estie
    Veteran
    • Apr 2008
    • 2347

    #2
    Hmm without much thinking I know the answers to 5,7,8,9 and have at least a 33% shot shot at 12.

    Edit: most of the rest are movie related question which I dont care about.

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    • Pete Mack
      Prophet
      • Apr 2007
      • 6883

      #3
      I got one other question, and I happened to get 12 right on a 50/50 guess: Merry and Pippin are not well differentiated characters. But that quote is definitely not Sam.

      Originally posted by Estie
      Hmm without much thinking I know the answers to 5,7,8,9 and have at least a 33% shot shot at 12.

      Edit: most of the rest are movie related question which I dont care about.

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      • Estie
        Veteran
        • Apr 2008
        • 2347

        #4
        Originally posted by Pete Mack
        I got one other question, and I happened to get 12 right on a 50/50 guess: Merry and Pippin are not well differentiated characters. But that quote is definitely not Sam.
        3rd option was Fredegar Boffin. I would gave guessed either Merry or Pippin, but couldnt completely exclude Fredegar as he was part of the conspiracy.

        Edit: I had a nagging doubt about the name...and yes, checking the wiki his name is Bolger not Boffin.
        Last edited by Estie; September 29, 2020, 19:37.

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        • fizzix
          Prophet
          • Aug 2009
          • 3025

          #5
          Actually, I lied, I knew one of them, the hobbit who stole the spoons. Since just last name would be ok, I would have gotten that one correct.

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          • Nick
            Vanilla maintainer
            • Apr 2007
            • 9639

            #6
            I got 9 - didn't know any of the movie questions.

            EDIT: BTW, I don't agree that Merry and Pippin are not well differentiated. Merry is serious, practical and a deep-thinker, whereas Pippin just likes a good time (although he develops considerably over the course of the book). One of my many irritations with the movie was how Merry was portrayed as a buffoon.
            Last edited by Nick; September 29, 2020, 23:05. Reason: rant
            One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
            In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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            • fizzix
              Prophet
              • Aug 2009
              • 3025

              #7
              9 probably would have gotten you in the top 20, or close to it.

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              • Ingwe Ingweron
                Veteran
                • Jan 2009
                • 2129

                #8
                Originally posted by Nick
                I got 9 - didn't know any of the movie questions.

                EDIT: BTW, I don't agree that Merry and Pippin are not well differentiated. Merry is serious, practical and a deep-thinker, whereas Pippin just likes a good time (although he develops considerably over the course of the book). One of my many irritations with the movie was how Merry was portrayed as a buffoon.
                I agree, although I thought it was Pippin that was portrayed as a buffoon in the movies, not Merry.

                For example, at the Council of Elrond Pippin said, "Besides, you need someone of intelligence on this, mission, quest, thing."

                "Well, that rules you out Pip," said Merry.
                “We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
                ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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                • Nick
                  Vanilla maintainer
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 9639

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Ingwe Ingweron
                  I agree, although I thought it was Pippin that was portrayed as a buffoon in the movies, not Merry.

                  For example, at the Council of Elrond Pippin said, "Besides, you need someone of intelligence on this, mission, quest, thing."

                  "Well, that rules you out Pip," said Merry.
                  I think they both were, although as you say, Pippin more so. And I guess I feel that it was almost fair for Pippin, but not at all for Merry.
                  One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                  In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                  • Sky
                    Veteran
                    • Oct 2016
                    • 2321

                    #10
                    i got zero.
                    "i can take this dracolich"

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                    • EpicMan
                      Swordsman
                      • Dec 2009
                      • 455

                      #11
                      Thanks for sharing this, fizix

                      I got 8,9, and 12.

                      Some of the movie questions felt like cheating; I've watched the movies but there's no way in them to know the names of the costume designers and such.

                      I guess they probably were one of the million names listed at the end of the movies, but still.

                      And I concur with the ire about Merry's portrayal in the movies.

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