Natural History Quiz
 

We need more quiz threads, but this is all I could come up with for now. Let's all study the Natural History (animal, mineral, vegetable) of Middle Earth and points West.

To start:

Name and describe a flower that grows in Rohan.

Simpelmynde the white starshaped little flower that grew on the graves of the kings - also called 'Everwhite' eller 'Oilos' (from memory - so may be miss spelled) because it grew all year.

Close enough, Telchar! Great memory. Your description is exactly right.

I have the names and spellings as Evermind and Simbelmynë from LOTR. And I see from The Silmarillion that those names would translate to Oiolossë - "ever-snow-white".

Your turn!

+ it was the same flower that grew on Fingolfins grave...

An easy one:
Bregalad, the ent - which tree did he look like and what kind of tree did he have special care for?

Was he an elm? (or was that beechbone?)

- Cirdan / Maglor68

He sang to the rowan trees, is that the answer?

Hmmm I cant find the discription of him reffering to any tree - as I thought I could [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] But I allways saw him as a birch or a beech - still Turambar gets it for remembering the rowan trees which loss he morned

Which character(s) in LotR take a rest in a stand of bay trees, and where?

Frodo and Samvise in Ithilien

Yep ! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

what is the first 'growing' thing that is mentioned in LOTR (not including the foreword and prologue) ?

I'll take a stab at this and say 'potatoes'

Oh Telchar, you devious Dwarf!

It was Bilbo's cousins!

Maltagaerion gets it because this is a 'Natural History Quiz' which I judge to concern 'the plant-kingdom' and I did have the Gaffers potatoes in mind.

Still Lostgaeriel came up with a very brilliant and creative answer - I like that too [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Sorry for the delay guys, a massive load of overtime work was dumped on me hehe.

I'll give you guys an easy one: What did Sam plant in the Party Field?

the seed of a mallorn tree which Galadriel gave him in Lothlorien

Kudos! your turn Eowyn [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

What's the "favoured" orcish mode of transport? *apologies if that's ambiguous*

[ January 19, 2002: Message edited by: Eowyn of Ithilien ]

The "favoured" orcish mode of transport related to Natural History??? Trampling growing things? Guessing.

alllllright what animal are they known to have ridden on

Wolves!

Wolves! Or more specifically, Wargs.

lol yes [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I hope that counted as natural history; it was all I could think of at the time