Lore of the Ring Round 62: And the WINNER is...

[Middle-Earth Scribe]

. . . since a little birdie told the Loremaster . . .

I'm a birdie now? Huh! That's news to me!!

[daughter_of_kings]

The moment has arrived. The points have been tallied. A winner has emerged.


Drum roll, please.

*bbrrrrrrrrump pum pum*



The winner of Round 62, and your Loremaster for March is...







LINDORIE!




Congratulations to Lind, and to the other players who made her work for it.


If anyone is interested, the answers were:

1. Not even Ancalagon the Black could have harmed _____.
The One Ring, or the Ruling Ring (The Shadow of the Past, p.59)

2. What came over Merry at Bree that caused him to go to pieces?
The Black Breath (Strider, p.170)

3. Who “do not see the world of light as we do”, but “in the dark they perceive many signs and forms that are hidden from us”?
The Black Riders (A Knife in the Dark, p.185)

4. _____ is Elvish for Black Pit or Black Chasm.
Moria (The Ring Goes South, p.276; Appendix F-II, p.1111)

5. By what title did Éomer refer to Sauron?
Power of the Black Land (The Riders of Rohan, p.423) or Lord of the Black Land (The Riders of Rohan, p.426)

6. What is another name for the Morannon?
The Black Gate (The Black Gate is Closed, p.622)

7. What was carried in a casket of black lebethron?
The crown of Eärnur, or the White Crown of Gondor (The Steward and the King, p.945-946)

8. What color is the stone that stands on the hill at Erech?
Black (The Passing of the Grey Company, p.764)

9. What do Men call the River Morthrond?
Blackroot (The Passing of the Grey Company, p.771)

10. Whose standard was a black serpent upon scarlet?
The chieftain of the Southrons/Haradrim (The Battle of the Pelennor Fields, p.821)

11. What color are the crebain?
Black (The Ring Goes South, p.278)

12. What language did the Olog-hai speak?
The Black Speech of Barad-dûr (Appendix F-I, p.1106)

13. Who would follow Faramir, even under the shadow of the black wings?
Pippin (The Siege of Gondor, p.792)

14. To what was Gollum referring when he said, “He has only four… but they are enough”?
The fingers on the Black Hand of Sauron (The Black Gate is Closed, p.627)

15. Who said, “Fear no alder black”?
Tom Bombadil (The Old Forest, p.118)

[Harthad]

Congrats, Lindorie!

[Eruvanne]

Conga-rats, lindorie!!

[Ladyhawk Baggins]

Lindorie

[Icarus]

Way to go Lind!!!

[Eärrámë]

Congrats lindorie!

I will take it. I will take it. I will take the Ring to Mordor, though I do not know the way. ~ Frodo Baggins

After seeing your signature for all these years today I read:

I will take it. I will take it. I will take the Ring to Mordor, though I will not throw it away. ~ Frodo Baggins

[Primula]

Congrats, Lind!

[Ladyhawk Baggins]

Congrats lindorie!

I will take it. I will take it. I will take the Ring to Mordor, though I do not know the way. ~ Frodo Baggins

After seeing your signature for all these years today I read:

I will take it. I will take it. I will take the Ring to Mordor, though I will not throw it away. ~ Frodo Baggins

Funny how the mind works, sometimes, revealing the truth at the most unexpected moments.