Browsing the internet, I found the following test (original page:
http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/test.htm). Now is your change to find out if you are a real Tolkien scholar! (To those who don't want to be one, it's just a funny test)
Beginning Questions
1. Just exactly what
was the nature of the friendship between Gimli and Legolas?
Legolas hate Gimli, he bring Gimli on a boat just to kill him for killing more orcs than him. Dwarves can't swim IMHO, and Gimli always wear an armor. An armor would make him unable to swim even if he could. The perfect murder, because he could call it an accident and there would be none to said somwhat else.
2. If Aragorn had the option, would he have ditched the Fellowship for a date with Pamela Anderson?
Arwen > Pamela Anderson
3. Why didn't Gandalf just blow up the armies that got in his way, if he was so powerful?
He can't show his true nature, nor his full powers.
4. How many times is the word "passed" used in LotR? (No peeking!)
No way i'll check it
5. What exactly was in
lembas? (Hint: in
Letters #210, JRRT says quite explicitly that lembas is
not a "food concentrate".)
Magic, maybe?
6. Why didn't the hobbits in the Shire rise against Sharkey and his men sooner? (Were Frodo, Sam and the lads a cut above hobbitdom and thus extraordinary?)
Because they are a bunch of lazy hobbits, it took a group of adventurers to wake them up.
7. If Aragorn truly spent uncounted years as a lone Ranger, then where the hell is Tonto? And why doesn't he wear that mask?
Tonto?
8. If Frodo hung the Ring on a chain, why didn't the
chain turn invisible?
Because it's only activated when there is a bearer. A chain hasn't any will or soul to be corrupted.
9. When Isildur had control of the One Ring, why didn't he use it to command the Ringwraiths? Or the Elven-rings? Or the Dwarven-rings? He could have ruled the whole of Middle-earth with that Ring, yet he decided instead to just write a couple of letters and then go for an unfortunate swim. What's his problem, anyway? Was he stupid?
He couldn't even wear it for the first time because it was too hot. He used it just before getting killed, showing that he knew it would make him invisible. Maybe he just doesn't know about his other powers or how to use them. Remember that not every ring-owner could use its full powers. Frodo could not give orders to the nazgùls even wearing the Ring.
10. When Legolas introduces Gimli to Treebeard, Gimli bows low and his axe falls to the ground. Treebeard notices this, but merely comments "Hoom! A Dwarf and an axe-bearer!" rather than smash Gimli to Play-Doh™. Doubtless you've heard of the poem, "Woodsman, Spare That Tree!"; did Tolkien have plans to write another version, titled "Tree, Spare That Woodsman!"?
wat
11. Why is the tale of Beren and Luthien subtitled "Release from Bondage", when we never even
once get to see her tied up? (And I was
really hoping, too.)
12. And if, as is likely, a bacterium had landed on the inner surface of the Ring, would the Ring corrupt it into an evil bacterium? Would it be invisible to other bacteria? Would its' life stretch out and become an unending weariness? Would it use its' increased strength and stature to rule over other bacteria? Would it fight to keep other bacteria from adhering to the Ring? Would it still evolve genetically, or would it instead become a Bacteria-wraith?
A bacteria has no will.
Advanced Questions
13. When the Dwarves of beautiful Khazad-Dum built their Western door, why did they allow it to be inscribed with the insulting name of "Moria" ("Black Pit"), a name that would only be earned long years afterwards?
Maybe Gandalf translated it to the "current" name? Good question indeed.
14. Reconcile Tom Bombadil's statement that he is "Eldest" with Gandalf's statement that Fangorn is "the oldest of all living things". Extra Credit: suggest a valid date of birth for each of them. Document your answers.
MAybe Bombadil is NOT a living thing in the way Fangorn is. Remember that also Gandalf is probably elder than Fangorn, but he's a Maia so not exactly a "living being" as Fangorn is.
15. Aragorn states (
Two Towers, p. 18 hardback) that Sauron never uses the name "Sauron", nor does he "permit it to be spelt or spoken". Reconcile this text with the text of
Return of the King, p. 164 hardback, where the Lieutenant of Barad-Dur clearly states, "I am the Mouth of Sauron".
Maybe he's allowed to use its name just with "foreigners", for diplomacy issues.
16. Though Moria is, by rightful ownership, Dain's, Balin nonetheless referred to himself as "Lord of Moria". Helm's Deep is clearly the property of the Rohirrim, being part of lands granted to them by Gondor long years ago, yet in
Return of the King p. 360 hardback Gimli declares himself "Lord of the Glittering Caves". Explain the laws and history pertaining to Dwarven property rights, and how those differed from the customs of Elves and Men. For full credit your answer must also reconcile Dwarven property laws with the generous nature of Aule, the Dwarves' creator.
Dwarves i think can claims new lands and declare themselves "king" of them, but IMHO all of them would always be under the "true King"'s authority.
Gimli became lord of the CAVES, unused by the Rohirrim nor the Gondorians.
17. How would the history of Middle-earth have differed if Sauron had returned to Aman and received the judgement of Manwe at the end of the First Age, rather than remaining in Middle-Earth (
Silmarillion p. 285 hardback)? Describe resultant cultural differences which would have taken place in the Second, Third and Fourth Ages. Special emphasis should be given to the cultures of the Grey Havens, Numenor (including the Dunedain and the Black Numenoreans), the Rohirrim, the Dunlendings and others descending from the peoples of the White Mountains, the Ents, the peoples of Khand, the Orcs (particularly those tribes living in the Grey, Misty and Ash Mountains and the Mountains of Shadow), the Elven peoples of Gil-Galad (include Elrond and the likelihood of Rivendell's being constructed), the Hobbits (beginning from when they were living in the Vales of Anduin), and the Haradrim (both Near and Far Harad must be covered for full credit). Also speculate on the differences in culture which would take place in Aman as Sauron describes his experience with evil to the Valar, Maiar, and Eldar living there. On
Silmarillion p. 65, it states that "Manwe was free from evil and could not comprehend it"; would he gain an understanding of evil from the experiences of Sauron? Be prepared to defend your answer.
Impossible to answer.