How well do you know your Lord of the Rings?

[Hero]

The purpose of this quiz is to measure your intimacy with the Lord of the Rings. There aren't any silly questions about things like noun cases in proto-Elvish or the color of the sky in a particular scene in the Silmarillion, so hardcore fans should be able to rip through it. It's all character identification based on images few of you are likely to be familiar with. I think it's possible to get them all by identifying attributes associated with a character in the book.

The quiz starts off easy to lull you into a false sense of security and then gets a bit harder. For your answers, reply with the question numbers next to your guesses. The first one to get them all right will receive a reward.

Click the spoiler for the quiz.

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[Parrhesia]

1: Senility!Bilbo.

2: Gandalf

3: Smeagollum.

4: Merry.

5: Ol' Barliman Butterbur.

6: Sam.

7: Looks like Gimli; but having seen this, I'm fairly certain that it's meant to be Boromir.

8: Ah...birthday Bilbo?

9: I'd hazard a guess at Pippin.

10: Aragorn (as Strider).

I remember seeing this once. John Hurt, the guy who played Aragorn, almost seemed like he voiced everyone. And Legolas replaced Glorfindel. (WHY DOES NOBODY LOVE YOU, GLORFY?! I REMAIN FAITHFUL!!!)

Edited January 18, 2010 by The Ferret Whisperer

[General Spoon]

Ah, its the movie version of The Hobbit. I've seen it before.

[uguu]

Ah, its the movie version of The Hobbit. I've seen it before.

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It's the animated movie version of the first two 'The Lord of the Rings' movies

[CrashGordon94]

I heard that in that one, they forgot to put an "S" on Saruman's name, so they spent half the film trying to foil Aruman's plans.

[Parrhesia]

From what I can remember, they ran out of money about halfway through. I think it finished at Helm's Deep, which was a shambles. O' course I saw this like five years ago.

(I woulda forgiven all had Glorfindel ACTUALLY GOTTEN CREDIT FOR SAVING THE GODDAMN HOBBITSES. I love you Glorfy!)

[Balcerzak]

I give Glorfindel credit for taking down a Balrog and saving the rest of the refugees from the fall of Gondolin myself. But yeah, holding off the riders and saving the hobbits was cool too.

Glorfindel is a pretty cool dude and eh doesn't afraid of anything.

Oh, also he prophesized the Witch-king's doom. How much more awesome can one elf get?

Edited January 18, 2010 by Balcerzak

[Parrhesia]

I assume that's from the Silmarillion? I've always been meaning to read that, but...have never got 'round to it...I'm only grateful to anyone who acknoledges him for saving Master Frodo and co.

I used to pronounce it 'Glorfindle', which kinda took the edge off the name :P

EDIT: There is no limits. Elrond shoulda gone against the '9 vs. 9' mentality, counted the Took and Brandybuck as one person and sent Glorfy to take the place of the entire Rohirrim army at Pelennor Fields.

Edited January 18, 2010 by The Ferret Whisperer

[Defeatist Elitist]

I give Glorfindel credit for taking down a Balrog and saving the rest of the refugees from the fall of Gondolin myself. But yeah, holding off the riders and saving the hobbits was cool too.

Glorfindel is a pretty cool dude and eh doesn't afraid of anything.

Oh, also he prophesized the Witch-king's doom. How much more awesome can one elf get?

ilu

Yeah, Glorfindel is fucking awesomely awesome, but pretty much everything in the Silmarillion is crazy epic anyway.

And Furetchen, yes, you must read it.

Edited January 19, 2010 by ZXValaRevan