If This is the Answer, What is the Question?
 

This game is quite simple to play, rather harder to explain. I had concidered doing this in the Quiz room, but I thought it would be much better and funnier if it were posted here.

Basically, it involves the posing of an answer to which a question must be found. Like Crazy Captions, one will be posted, preferably in bold and italics and underlined so it stands out, and then anyone can throw in suggestions for what the question could be. Make them Middle Earth related, amusing and most of all, fitting to the answer. Here are some examples...

Some one poses the answer

"45 Million"

One suggests:

"How many orcs would it take to actually kill one of the main characters?"

Another says:

"Exactly how many strands of hair did Galadriel give to Gimli when he next came to Lorien?"

And so on until we exhaust the possibilities of that answer and then someone else can pose another one for us to have fun with. Make sense? Didn't think so.

Here is the first answer...

"Four hundred Horses."

What is the question?

Sounds fun!

So:

How many horses would it take to fill up the Dead Marshes so you could walk across it dryly?

Sorry it's such a morbid question, but it's the first thing I thought of...

Idea: After a few people give questions, the person who gives the answer tells which is right. Just an idea.

Smaug's breakfast

Another possible question:

What would it take to distract Théoden long enough for you to steal his beard?

Maybe. :D

The amount of horses that Eomer gave to Aragorn after the WR!

I'm sorry... that was a bad one wasn't it....:(

Perhaps it could be...

What are the contents of Eomer's wardrobe?

"What on earth could Gimli have eaten to pass that much wind?"









Or don't give the real answers, just go for surrealism, always good :D

I think the question has to be...

What is actually in pipe weed?

;) :p

No more offers?

Well, okay then, here is a new answer:

About nine years.

What is the question?

I was thinking...

How long would the hobbits like for breakfast?

You can still offer for previous answers by quoting them, of course.

How long does it take an ent to say hi?

How long it takes an ent to tell you what he thinks your name should be. (I was going to say how long it takes him to tell you his name, but then I realized, it would probably be a bit longer.)

The length of time between baths for Movie-Aragorn.

OK, here's another answer: 99 bottles of beer on the wall

Q: How long did Legolas spend in front of a mirror before leaving mirkwood?

If all the hobbits left the Shire, what would be left?

What does Thranduil use to decorate his bedroom?

What is Pippin's favorite song?

When the young Hobbits began excavating the cellar of Bag End, what did they find?

OR

After four hundred and fifty years, at what point was Treebeard at with a song the Hobbits taught him?

What was left after Merry and Pippin raided Saruman's supplies?

*empty

Ok I have an answer:

"6200"

I was thinking:

"The number of trees in fangorn"
"The amount of beers a hobbit goes though per year"
"The number of orcs Aragorn has killed"

(Sorry, I just don't feel creative)

Is it...

"What was the weight, in tons, of Bombur when he died?"

Or

"How Many times did Gandalf Uncloak during his stay in Hobbiton?"

Just to get this moving:

Freshly cooked orc

Nasty joke this, but in question to:

I'd ask:

:eek:

What was Sauron's idea of a romantic dinner?

OR

What was used to make Bilbo's Birthday cake?

Maybe...

What counts as one of your five a day?

What is the most nutritious nack in the world?

What is a balrog's favourite meat?



(maybe I will go with Lal's surrealism, for example, What are giraffes?)

What is in Sauron's handbag?

Sauron has a handbag???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Why not:


(as Fungoltch and Shcmurt would say) Køm nåsteÿ Saüron æt? (I think, correct me if I spelt anything wrong Hookbill)

or

What grows on every eat-me-not tree?

New answer:

Because he didn't want to.

Question: Why didn't the balrog cross the road? (They have wings *ducks* so can sub for chickens :p)

Just going completely crazy...
 

Why didn't Sauron kiss Morgoth?

Why did Gollum destroy the Ring?

Why didn't Aragorn wash?

'Tis time for a new one
 

The answer is now...

Pink

What colour was Aragorn's scabbard?

What colour was Saruman before he decided 'many colours' would be better?

OR

How did a stoned Gandalf reply when asked 'How many fingers am I holding up?'

What colour was Barad-dur before it got dirty?

Next to black, what is Turin's favorite color?

If Sauron could talk to Peter Jackson, what colour would he have asked his Eye to be?

Ok, we shall have a new one:

A barrel of beer

What were the Entwives hiding in?

OR

What was also an acceptable answer to the riddle of the door of Durin?

What was the only thing that survived the sacking of Gondolin?

or

What wasn't left after Merry and Pippin marauded Saruman's storehouse?

or

What would the dwarves have gone to laketown in if Bilbo had been in charge?

or

What did Gandalf keep under his cloak?