You need to brush up your toes young Hobbit!

October 8, 2006 4:45 PM

The Thain's Book is an online encyclopedia of Middle-earth in the Third Age. Oh, you're an expert? Take the Middle-earth Challenge and prove it!
posted by owhydididoit (11 comments total)

A sampling of my quiz scores
Weapons & Wielders: 12 / 15 = 80.0% Good Work!
Concerning Hobbits: 5 / 16 = 31.2% You need to brush up your toes young Hobbit!
Valar & Maiar: 9 / 15 = 60.0% Not bad!
Rings & Things: 9 / 15 = 60.0% Not bad!
Creatures, Great & Small: 8 / 15 = 53.3% Not bad!
posted by owhydididoit at 4:45 PM on October 8, 2006

What the Hell? Now it's Tolkien Day?
posted by Astro Zombie at 4:55 PM on October 8, 2006

Coincidence, truly.
posted by owhydididoit at 4:57 PM on October 8, 2006

The Encyclopedia of Arda is equally thorough (if not more so), covers all ages, and is considerably more user friendly.
posted by chimaera at 5:24 PM on October 8, 2006

In related news: Is it Tolkien, or isn't it?

"Houghton Mifflin's decision to publish an unfinished work by J.R.R. Tolkien next year is prompting such questions. The book is the epic 'Children of Húrin,' begun in 1918 by the legendary author of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' Unfinished at the time of Tolkien's death in 1973, the book has been 'reconstructed' from his drafts by Christopher Tolkien, the author's 81-year-old son."

posted by ericb at 5:28 PM on October 8, 2006

Of special interest: Oliphaunts
posted by Guy Smiley at 7:44 PM on October 8, 2006

Only 31% on the hobbit quiz? I missed only two, without needing to think about it much...
posted by caution live frogs at 10:46 PM on October 8, 2006

ericb: It's Tolkien of some sort, just maybe not J.R.R.
posted by moonbiter at 1:46 AM on October 9, 2006

I'm pretty sure the Childrin of Húrin was publishing in Unfinished Tales, no? I don't have a copy nearby.
posted by sciurus at 5:24 AM on October 9, 2006

ericb writes "In related news: Is it Tolkien, or isn't it?"

Well then that would go for a whole lot of books: The Silmarillion*, The Lays of Beleriand, the various Book(s) of Lost Tales..





* Which was written in its final form by Toronto's own Guy Gavriel Kay, tyvm!
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 8:05 AM on October 9, 2006

Yes, Narn i Chîn Húrin is included in Unfinished Tales. Sounds like Christopher has done some more extensive filling in the blanks, a la the Silmarillion.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:13 PM on October 9, 2006