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Musnud
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posted 03-06-2002 04:09 PM
I guess I'm just not really clear about what you're looking for. No offense intended, but I feel like these Trivia questions are becoming extraordinarily abstract.
Is this possibly what you're looking for? It directly follows the verse you quoted:
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There lay they long, and many a song / Was sung unheard by men or elves.
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Marcho Blackwood, MSS
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posted 03-06-2002 04:10 PM
Perhaps this is what you are looking for:
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His crown shall be upholden,
His harp shall be restrung,
His halls shall echo golden
To songs of yore re-sung.
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Lugbúrz
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posted 03-06-2002 06:10 PM
Marcho has the line I was looking for.
Musnud: I know what you mean, I was about ready to hand in the answer and hope to get all of you to ask the questions we all like to answer.
Please do steer the game, if we all just keep quiet it becomes boring. ![[]](icon54.gif)
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Marcho Blackwood, MSS
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posted 03-07-2002 08:29 AM
Hmmm, a bit easy perhaps, but let's give it a shot!
What climatic change is mentioned in The Hobbit?
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Bungo
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posted 03-07-2002 06:23 PM
I'm thinking. I'm thinking.
(p.s. This masterful post is number seven hundred. Let the bells ring out and the banners fly.)
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Lugbúrz
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posted 03-09-2002 04:23 AM
I see that perhaps it's not my questions, but rather that people are not finding time for this thread (some arbitrary consolation).
Since nobody has had a go, let me try my luck:
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On his head was a crown of berries and red leaves, for the autumn was come again. In the spring he wore a crown of woodland flowers.
Or perhaps you were looking for Beorn's wise words:
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The time is not yet come for nuts (though it may be past and gone indeed before you get to the other side)
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Marcho Blackwood, MSS
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posted 03-09-2002 08:34 AM
Not a seasonal change, but a climatic one. There is mention of at least one specific change from the normal pattern.
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Bungo
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posted 03-09-2002 08:34 AM
I suspect Mr. Blackwood is talking about something more exceptional. I don't have my book here, but I recall something that caused the dragons to move south.
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Lugbúrz
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posted 03-09-2002 08:55 AM
Ah, that makes the question clearer to me. I was wondering that there would be quite a few seasonal changes. ![[]](icon53.gif)
You perhaps refer to the earthquakes and floods which altered the lands and river near Lake-town?
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Marcho Blackwood, MSS
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posted 03-09-2002 09:53 AM
Floods tend to be seasonal, and earthquakes are not associated with climate, but the reference can be found around Laketown. A climatic change would be one that varies from the normal weather patterns one sees year after year, El Nino, for example.
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Lugbúrz
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posted 03-09-2002 05:29 PM
My post is going to refresh Bungo's profile ![[]](biggrin.gif)
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![[]](icon52.gif) Ok, ok I'm going to read the book ![[]](icon19.gif)
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Musnud
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posted 03-10-2002 10:06 AM
Is this what you're looking for?
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If he plunged into it, a vapour and a steam would arise enough to cover all the land with a mist for days;
and then,
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The lake roared in. A vast steam leaped up, white in the sudden dark under the moon. There was a hiss, a gushing whirl, and then silence. . . the wind grew loud and cold. It twisted the white fog into bending pillars and hurrying clouds and drove it off to the West to scatter in tattered shreds over the marshes before Mirkwood.
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Marcho Blackwood, MSS
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posted 03-10-2002 11:35 AM
No, but it does have to do with the lake.
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Bungo
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posted 03-10-2002 06:25 PM
Ahh, Marcho, The Man!
You must be referring to the obscure reference which obscurely refers to the drought!
Yes, there once was a greater town, the rotting piles of which could still be seen along the shores when the waters sank in the drought. Don't you just hate droughts?
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Lugbúrz
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posted 03-10-2002 06:38 PM
I noticed the reference to the drought, but if floods are considered seasonal so can be droughts, although in the context of Lake-town, they seem to happen very rarely compared to floods, and so could be considered a serious change in climate.
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Bungo
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posted 03-10-2002 06:42 PM
I'm guessing that if it was just seasonal, then they would not have built and lived in a greater town there. It sounds like a pretty big and unexpected drought.
If I'm correct, here is what my next question would be:
What occasion mentioned in The Hobbit is still celebrated around the world, even by some who have never read of Middle Earth?
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Bungo
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posted 03-10-2002 06:44 PM
Btw, Thank you, thank you for the beautiful avatar you found and fixed up for me, Lugbúrz! I shall cherish it! May your tower endure!
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Marcho Blackwood, MSS
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posted 03-10-2002 07:39 PM
The drought is what I was looking for! I guess growing up in West Virginia, that floods are an every year sort of thing, it just varies on what valley it is going to hit this year!
Hmmm, what celebration is mentioned in the Hobbit? I'll have to contemplate!
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Gandalf the White
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posted 03-10-2002 07:41 PM
I'm not too sure on this one, but I think the answer would be Midsummer's Eve / Midsummer's Day
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Bungo
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posted 03-10-2002 08:18 PM
Nice try, but nope.
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Lugbúrz
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posted 03-10-2002 09:05 PM
Dangit, and I dint post the drought because where I used to live, there's one pretty often. After being corrected by Marcho on so many occasions I decided not to show my ignorance any further
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Let's see, Bungo do you perhaps refer to New year's day which the dwarves celebrated as Durin's day ?
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Balin Son of Fundin
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posted 03-10-2002 09:06 PM
How about New Year's?
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Bungo
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posted 03-10-2002 09:16 PM
Nope and nope.
And welcome to Minas Tirith, Balin! Good answer on the LOTR "Who Said That?" thread.
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Lugbúrz
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posted 03-10-2002 09:28 PM
Harvest is celebrated in many different cultures in many different ways, similar to the autumn feast of the Wood-elves and similar to Thanksgiving or at least its conception.
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Bungo
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posted 03-10-2002 11:36 PM
Well, I am so delighted that a spur of the moment question with a clear answer could stump the panel for several hours.
Harvest is a wonderful time of year, and just warms my little heart, but it's not the occasion that the judges are looking for.
I'll give you a hint, because now I'm all in a thanksgiving-type frame of mind.
Oh wait a minute. What am I doing. No hints, you tricksy players!
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