Middle-earth
While Minas Tirith was the capital during the War of the Ring, this city was the original capital of Gondor that was largely abandoned after a devastating civil war and plague
Osgiliath
This alias is used by Frodo Baggins to conceal his identity while traveling
Mr. Underhill
Name the character that speaks this line of dialogue:
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might get swept off to."
Bilbo Baggins
The precious shirt given to Frodo by his uncle Bilbo is made of this lightweight, nearly indestructible metal
Mithril
While grading student exam papers, Tolkien famously wrote this line on a blank page from a student's paper
"In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit."
The Hobbits visit this hill featuring an ancient ruins, also called Weathertop
Amon Sûl
This is the name Aragorn takes as crowned King of Gondor and Arnor
Elessar
Name the character that speaks this line of dialogue:
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
Gimli
This elven dagger, carried by Bilbo and later by Frodo, is known by this name
Sting
These names given to two of Tolkien's characters are engraved on the joint gravestone of Tolkien and his wife Edith beneath their real names
Beren and Luthien
When the Fellowship reached Lothlórien, they rested beside this stream, named after certain elven woman
Nimrodel
Celebrimbor
This line appears in this book by J.R.R. Tolkien:
"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."
The Hobbit
Of the three elven rings of power, this one is kept by Elrond
Vilya
This 1916 battle heavily influenced Tolkien's depiction of the Dead Marshes
The Battle of the Somme
The Two Trees of Valinor gave light to the world before the creation of the Sun and the Moon
Telperion and Laurelin
This was the name of Treebeard's long lost wife
Fimbrethil (Wandlimb)
Name the character that speaks this line of dialogue:
"The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out."
Gildor
Walking staves made of this wood were given by Faramir to Frodo and Sam to help the Hobbits in their journey through the wild
Lebethron wood
In the 1950s, Sir Christopher Lee, who later played Saruman in the films by Peter Jackson, met Tolkien at this Oxford pub
The Eagle and Child
This major river of Middle-earth is fed by the Mitheithel (also known as the Hoarwell) and the Bruinen (Loudwater), before ultimately flowing into the sea
The Greyflood, or the Gwathló
This is the name of the Vala served by the Maia who originally steered the Sun acrosst he sky, Arien
Vána
Name the character that speaks this line of dialogue:
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
Haldir
This jewel was worn by Isildur when he was waylaid and ultimately killed by orcs, and it was not made invisible by the power of the One Ring when Isildur put it on to escape
The Elendilmir
As a young scholar, Tolkien collaborated with E.V. Gordon in translating and editing this Old English text in 1925
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight