Christmas Riddle 2009

Well, Master Barliman, though you always forget to point out which riddle you’re referring to (I do not want to criticize your way of spelling here) … I simply guess you answered the third question correctly. It’s the Taur-im-Duinath between Sirion and Gelion, which means the wood between the rivers. So that means another point.
As for giving points for your effort I would have announced that before. None there is for that.

Hmmm … yes, Master Gildor. “Taur-na-Fúin” is correct indeed. But that’s just one of the two names. Your explanations referring to time and origin do not reveil the second name.
So there’s half a point for you, Master Gildor.
Then there’s another 1/2 point to be given for the second name to find out about.
Just to give some help:
Master J.RR. Tolkien painted/drew this picture with pencil, black ink and watercolours. I cut the picture a bit this afternoon before uploading, as it would have provided the second name then.

Rhuoommm … Master Barliman, at the moment I’m about trying to recycle myself ..
So these riddles have been solved instantly — that’s why I would rather call them hasty-or instant riddles.
Anyway, what’s done is done. So this riddle can be regarded as being solved … rhuoommho
Though I still recall some words, rhymes I heard … dunno exactly … need some help …

A spumy torrent, in spate tumbling
from the highest hill of the Hunters’ Wold
clove and crossed it; there of carven stone
with slim and shapely slender archway
a bridge was builded, a bow gleaming
in the froth and flashing foam of Ingwil,
that headlong hurried and hissed beneath.
Where it found the flood, far-journeyed Narog,
there steeply stood the strong shoulders
of the hills, o´verhanging the hurrying water;
there should in trees a sheer terrace,
wide and winding, worn to smoothness,
was fashioned in the face of the falling slope.
Doors there darkly dim gigantic
were hewn in hillside; huge their timbers,
and their post and lintels of ponderous stone

Anyone knows this (for an extra point?).
source —> ?
about what — > ?

Huoommm … Tolkien’s picture of the forest I provided here lately is named ‘Fangorn Forest’. I copied part of it (excluding the title which can be seen below the original picture) .
I copied this from: Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull , J.R.R.Tolkien – Artist and Illustrator,
published 1995 page 58 – that clearly reads “FANGORN FOREST” – the caption reads:

Taur-na Fúin (Fangorn forest)
Pencil, black ink, watercolour

I am sorry to have fewer and less sources than you seem to have. But I did not ask about explaining the meaning of ‘taur-na-Fúin’. To me it was Master Regalrick providing the correct name first.

Alas, couldn’t we riddle without them Elves … rhuoommm … everything they do know and hasty they are too …
Of course my last quotation was from “Lays of Beleriand” … the explanation was very exact, Master Gildor. So that point has to be yours, again.
rhuoommmhuoommm … I should give up them Christmas-riddles whenever an Elf is present

Thank you Master Erchamion for reveiling the ‘history’ of that image.
Having a closer look at the last of the three pictures you provided all can see that below the line that ends the picture there are two words, written in capital letters: FANGORN FOREST.

(of course I could give evidence reveiling all of the picture I found – but that might take some time as the copyright then was with TTT (The Tolkien Trust) previously unpublished material by JRR Tolkien .. alas … previously published material by JRR Tolkien used by permission variously of Frank Richard Williamson and Christopher Reuel Tolkien as Executuors of the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tolkien Trust, Harper Collins Publishers, George Allan and Unwin (Publishers) Ltd. and Unwin Hyman Ltd.
they even informed that:
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 100003.

See, it has become difficult, as I just saw that the book was printed in China and was sold by Houghton Mifflin Company Boston + New York.
Ahh, to be honest … I did not write a single letter. I would have wondered where to send it to. To me all this is a bit too complicated. i just wanted to cause some fun.
What did the Spaniard end it’s last entry with ? …
Last edited by Theobald (today 21.27 GMT – 1)

Nay, Master Gildor.
Let me point out that I know that you referred to the same source about the foresty-question after I was giving a hint.
As for your last answer, please know that I really did not forget to check all (sic!) those backpage notes, as you like to call them. The one you referred to is not on p 66 and but on p 67. Your reference to page 55 is correct.
last riddles next Sunday? .. ok?
(in case I get some licence for using certain names here)

Huooommmmm … indeed it is, Master Gildor … huom … now let me update the score after last weekend (or is it weak Ent?) …. huoommm …

Master Gildor 7 1/2 points
Master Regalrick 5 points
Master Erchamion 3 points
Master Barliman 2 points
Master Protozeus 1 point

I hope this is correct – mind my disability in calculating and counting as them mathematics always have been a slight problem to me tree. So please, correct me here if I am wrong.