All held the Ring at some point?

You're on the right track. I can hardly say more without giving it away.

almost the same
 

They all used the ring?

"wore" would be a better term. bombadil didn't actually use it, the way the Ring is meant to be used--to turn invisible.

Many people besides the four I listed did hold, use or wear the Ring. There is something quite unique concerning these four people and the Ring (though a fifth person might arguably be added to the list).

What about the fact that they willingly gave the ring to somebody else when they had it?

If Legate's not right...
 

The ring didn't completely take them over?

As it happens, Legate is right. Your turn now. :)

Ah, I hoped that won't happen :) I won't be around the next week to see the results. But I think I might post it anyway and just hope that my question will be once again one of those hard enough to guess :) Let's see if I'll succeed.

What do those have in common:

Old Took
Bungo Baggins
Drogo Baggins
Gaffer Gamgee
Glóin

You may just keep guessing, and then we shall see.

They are all ancestors of people in the fellowship?

I think that Eonwe has got this one, but I'll just go ahead and guess anyway. Could it be that they are all short?

Bungo Baggins? Bilbo wasn't part of the Fellowship... who was he related to?

Good point.

Could it be that they are all related to people in the fellowship?

Nope, neither of the answers presented here is correct (as for them being short, they were, but then, there were many others who were. All Dwarves and Hobbits, in particular).

Seems it's working this far :cool:

If you choose to, I may give you a minor hint to point you in a certain direction.

All of them had at least one child and I non of them died in battle. . .

really I have no idea, maybe you should give that hint

In some way, you are aiming the right direction, Rune. Anyway, I will tell you that it's a thing which is specific only for them, but not of all the people, beings, whatever in M-E, but from Dwarves and Hobbits. So, that is the beginning of the answer. What do these have in common: "Of all the Dwarves and Hobbits..." There's an important hint in this fact, if you think of it.

Well, of all the Dwarves and Hobbits, those five are the only (known) ones who had a son who went to sea.

Good, good! That was exactly it. Okay, your thread now :) Well done!

To think that I spend hours reading to figure out the answe for that quiz and never got it. . .:mad:

Ah, but you know, that sometimes happens even to the best of us :)

...while that doesn't say anything about you, of course, but... ;) :p

*bump* Azaghâl? Are you around?

I also thought about "bumping" this thread earlier, but decided that I should stick to only a few threads.

Bumping doesn't do the trick, you just need a fresh start:

So what do strawberries, Hobbits and the Eotheod have in common?

Since I couldn't think of any good answer in the last two days, I will post the first thing that occured to me when I saw this, but it is far from an actual answer.

The only thing I thought of is that they have something to do with straw, like straw-berries, or for the Eotheod, being called straw-heads. No idea what could it be with the hobbits, though.

I also thought it may have something to do with the year 1420 SR.

Any close, Miggy? Or, any hints?

Well interesting ideas, but as you would say in my place, it actually is something simple. But I'm sure you'll figure it out.

So as a hint, it has nothing to do with etymology or anything.

I really cannot think of any other hints which would help, but would not spoil it as well.

Okay, I have a question about the strawberries. Does this have to do with strawberries in general, or with some quality or aspect of them that is seen in Tolkien's works?

(Goodness, that does sound silly, phrased like that. :D I was just wondering.)

But I'm rather clueless. The only thing that pops into my mind that they were all misused or misrepresented in the movies, but they have that in common with just about everything else. :rolleyes:;)

Umm, well, it is smething particular to Tolkien's world, yes.

They're good with whipped cream?

:D That answer almost deserves a free win... almost. No, as you probably expected. No, it really isn't any nonsense, it really is a fact. Still funny answer though! :D

Okay, this might be be a bit far-fetched, but strawberries I know have their seeds on the outside. This might be aligned with the Dunlendings name for the Rohirrim: "strawheads", and perhaps Might is thinking that hobbits are prickly or have curly hair or something. Bizarre I know, but perhaps I'm right.

My goodness, Miggy, I hope it has nothing to do with the movies! In that case, I'd boycott the answer ;)

No, nothing as complicated that. And not from the movies.

A tip: It's Eotheod, not Rohirrim.

They all originated in the Anduin Vales :rolleyes: Though I have never read the "M-E book of the origin of plants".

The other things that occured to me were that they are favoured to be eaten by Gollum (but that would not concern the Éotheod, and who knows if Gollum ate strawberries), or eaten by Gríma (but again, you say that it's Éotheod, not Rohirrim, and I am not aware of that he'd eat Rohirs anyway, and who knows if he liked strawberries, too).

Besides that, I have no idea :)

Yes, you're right with the Anduin Vales! :D

It was simple as that.

Ah :D Okay... :rolleyes:

In that case, hmm...

What do Legolas and Saruman have in common?

(It is the thing which, based only on the evidence of the books, only the two of them have in common, as far as I know.)

Wow, that's a hard one since I can't imagine where to start looking.
Apparently they had little to do with each other, but surely there is something if you say so.

The problem is a lot is said in the books about them and if they are the only ones to have it in common then it must be some minor detail hard to find.

Ummm... maybe the fact they both heard that Hasufel and Arod had met Shadowfax that night near Fangorn Forest?

I know it's a strange answer, but nothing else comes to mind right now.

No, that is not what I am looking for.

I understand that it is a hard one, and I am actually trying to think of how to give a hint which way to look without giving away too much.

Hmm... I think I may as well leave it for a while, that with chance, you may think of it on your own. And if after let's say a day or two people still seem at loss, I may give a bit of a direction.

Okay I'm still thinking about Legolas and Saruman, but I have a question about the previous riddle. Just, out of mere curiousity, where does it say that strawberries are from the Anduin Vales? :) I thought about an explanation like that too but rejected it because I didn't remember anything like that about strawberries...

I actually wondered about it yesterday too, but then I concluded that Miggy probably meant just the fact that they were growing in the Anduin Vales: Bilbo ate some after he got out of the Goblin tunnels and was hungry.

Indeed, it only meant they existed there, not that they were from the Anduin Vales as nor were the Eotheod nor the Hobbits for that matter.