20 Questions on ME

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Urwen

You do realize you're giving away just what kind of questions we'd need to ask in the future?

I don't actually have an idea in mind yet; I want to know how broad the options are.

I once saw a similar Tolkien 20 Questions where the answer was 'the name "The Little Kingdom" as once used of Arda in the Silmarillion'. I'm assuming that's a step too far, but figured it was best to ask before potentially breaking the agreed-but-not-stated rules.

hS

[Huinesoron]

And I guess I can formalise this to save time:

If the answer to Urwen's question 'Worn by a commander?' is NO, then I would like to ask 'Is it Eowyn's armour?'.

hS

[Urwen]

Then think of something, because I have a feeling you'd get it.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Huinesoron

And I guess I can formalise this to save time:

If the answer to Urwen's question 'Worn by a commander?' is NO, then I would like to ask 'Is it Eowyn's armour?'.

hS

Yes to worn by a commander

[Urwen]

Worn by an evil character?

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Yes to worn by a commander

Hmm.

Commanders' armour:
-Aragorn's mail from Rohan.
-Forlong's mail
-Imrahil's armour
-Witch-King's mail
[-Denethor's armour]

I think we can mostly rule out Forlong - his armour is incidental - and Denethor - his status as a commander is titular at best.

The first ambiguous question was 'is it man-made', which was answered with a flat yes. So that points away from the Witch-King, whose armour was quite likely made by either Orcs or Sauron in person.

That leaves two, and of the two Aragorn is the most prominent, and may also account for the 'made me gasp' reaction (since I namedropped him as well). So:

Is it Aragorn's armour?

hS

[Urwen]

Why can't you be offline when I want you to be?

[Mithalwen]

No to evil character
No to Aragorn’s armour.
As to what you can choose well it does say in ME but I don’t see why languages or people should be excluded - not all things are tangible.

How obscure you make it rather depends on how much participation you want. I revived this to encourage participation rather than to point score on arcane knowledge and thought I had chosen a nice and fair thing but I might be wrong on that. However I will explain when it is nailed down if necessary.