Christmas Riddle 2009

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December 21, 2009 at 12:31 am #8460
regalrick
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Thank you Master rita.de for the congratulations and a special thank you to you Master Theobald for all your hard work.It has been great fun and very educational as I learned today that I must now consider you as an Eldar.
To help with Master Erchamion’s riddle some say Amroth of Lorien was intended to be Celeborn’s son but others believe he had no son as it is not stated in the Lord of the Rings.

P.S. Mulligatawny soup (pepper water)
December 21, 2009 at 8:06 am #8461
Barliman
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Sadly there was no point (if you’ll forgive the pun) my even trying really – I was unable to get to the computer as often as was necessary to compete effectively, since I’ve been busy looking after Mrs B, who had an operation on Friday – I’m not making excuses, Master Tree, just explaining why I haven’tbeen able to participate inyour entertaining competition as much as I’d have liked. I didn’t want you to think your labours were unappreciated!).

As for anyone having used the “internet-thing”, good luck to them! – to paraphrase a saying we have here in Bree, “An intelligent Man (Hobbit, Elf, Dwarf etc, delete as apropriate) is not one who knows all the answers, but who knows where to Google them”.
December 21, 2009 at 8:42 am #8462
erchamion
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No, I’m afraid it is neither of Aragorn or Amroth. Yes, I wasn´t wrong, I am asking for the son, not daughter.
Master Theobald, you more than anyone should know about this ….:rolleyes:
December 21, 2009 at 8:56 am #8463
erchamion
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Barliman wrote:

Sadly there was no point (if you’ll forgive the pun) my even trying really – I was unable to get to the computer as often as was necessary to compete effectively, since I’ve been busy looking after Mrs B, who had an operation on Friday – I’m not making excuses, Master Tree, just explaining why I haven’tbeen able to participate inyour entertaining competition as much as I’d have liked. I didn’t want you to think your labours were unappreciated!).

As for anyone having used the “internet-thing”, good luck to them! – to paraphrase a saying we have here in Bree, “An intelligent Man (Hobbit, Elf, Dwarf etc, delete as apropriate) is not one who knows all the answers, but who knows where to Google them”.

When I started the University a professor said the same thing: Here we don´t teach the law but we will show us to find the laws you can apply them.

Why memorize if you know what book is?

Anyway, it is undeniable that it is difficult to know the German customs in choosing the order of dishes at a dinner …..:lol:

I certainly hope that Mrs. B is in good health
December 21, 2009 at 9:13 am #8464
Gildor
MMP Elder
doh!! I come back after two days of unavailability, so many things happened here , that’s pure luck that I remained among the three winners … I could not participate in the 9 last riddles oO

well, congratulations everyone, this christmas riddle was absolutly fabulous
December 21, 2009 at 11:11 am #8465
Theobald
Participant
Thank you for your nice words, my friends … huoommm … it was my pleasure having done this …
Master Barliman, I felt sorry when I read about the reason for your absence … I hope Mrs B is well again …
Oh, I forgot to give the right order of the three winners …. huoommm … 1st Master Erchamion 2nd Master Gildor 3rd Master Regalrick … rhuoomm or the other way round, but what does it matter … I believe that it’s important that there are winners … in the end …
December 21, 2009 at 5:47 pm #8477
Theobald
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Oh, sorry I forgot to answer to them university professors … you might have met.
I met at least one professor too, who was focused on The Hobbit in 1976. It was about analyzing the seven arts referred to in the Hobbit by Master Tolkien.
Sorry, but I can just type the German words, which are:
Grammatik, Arithmetik, Geometrie, Astronomie. Rhetorik, Dialektik, Musik.
This can be defined as ‘curriculum in artibus’. (artes liberales).
Anyway, The Hobbit is about to strengthen one’s own process of moving towards sth. unknown, but still keeping your comfort, at least in between.
Wasn’t it that to lead us to what is called fantasy?
Wasn’t it Master Einstein saying that phantasy is more important than knowledge, as knowlege is limited?
rhroummm … anyway … merry Christm as days … or even better a damn-good year …
December 21, 2009 at 7:19 pm #8479
erchamion
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Well, this aid to the riddle isn´t eternal …..

Huumm, I can say that the son of Celeborn looks….. as I could say……..¿white?….. By the way, is genetic. Surely, this should help you enough.
Master Theobald, I still wonder you don´t know anything about it ….:rolleyes:
December 21, 2009 at 8:23 pm #8480
regalrick
Participant
Perhaps you speak of the “White Tree of Gondor” son of “silver-tree”
December 21, 2009 at 8:35 pm #8481
erchamion
Participant
Hot, hot, Master Regalrick.
But you are naming me Celeborn’s grandson, not the son
December 21, 2009 at 8:46 pm #8482
regalrick
Participant
Nimloth it is
December 21, 2009 at 8:55 pm #8483
erchamion
Participant
Right! Master Regalrick, right.

Nimloth, ´son´ of Celeborn, ´grandson´ of Galathilion and ´great grandson´ of Telperion

And Master Tree, do not know your extended family?
December 21, 2009 at 9:06 pm #8485
Theobald
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I stated before that I will not ever take part in them riddly things any more or rather provide such things any further … though some of you are still putting riddles here … rhuoommm … I quit yesterday … that’s all there is about me, tree … and when I said I did quit I mean that what I said … of course you can feel free about putting riddles here …
December 21, 2009 at 9:15 pm #8486
Theobald
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Of course I do know what you called my “extended family” , Master Erchamion , Some of them I do know well, such as Telperion I met in Oxford some years ago … but, alas, I’m too young a tree to record everything …
December 21, 2009 at 10:46 pm #8487
Gildor
MMP Elder
I must admit I may be lost here… if you talk about Celeborn the elf, then it is Amroth (in some versions at least)
if you talk about Celeborn the tree, well as regalrick said, his son is Nimloth, his father is Galathilion
December 21, 2009 at 11:16 pm #8488
erchamion
Participant
Amroth’s father is Amdír (in fact I myself once suggested as GF figure). He died in the battle of Dagorlad as we can read in Unfinished Tales. And though you are right to say that in some places said that Amroth could be the son of Celeborn and Galadriel, seems to prevail Amdír affiliation.
There is only one known descendant (at least for me) of Celeborn-Elf: Celebrían (she’s a girl as we all know).

But in Tolkien’s stories there is another Celeborn: the Celeborn-tree. This if you have a son: Nimloth (unless we want to complicate the matter and we say that Nimloth can be a ´tree-female´) 😆
December 22, 2009 at 5:18 pm #8492
Theobald
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:)Huoommmm … so all there’s left for me is to ask the three winners to be patient for some while, as the prizes first have to be casted before I can pass them on … huom … I hope you will understand
I will let you three know as soon as possible when those figures will have arrived at my place … huom … this is something I cannot haste …
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