Vocab Chaps.1-2
Scone
What is a type of sweet bread?
Cleave
What is to to split or divide by cutting?
The thing that happens when trolls don't get underground before dawn
What is turning to stone or "the stuff of the mountains they are made of?"
Elves are known for this
What are Biter and Beater?
Hearth
What is the floor in front of a fireplace?
Repose
What is rest or sleep?
The name of the dwarves town and the name of the creature that destroys it
What are Dale and Smaug?
The name of the valley our travelers enter as they hear elf songs and giggles.
What is Rivendell?
The reason for Bilbo's fall
What is a goblin pulling Dori down from behind (as Dori was carrying Bilbo)?
Audacious
What is extremely bold, daring, or fearless?
Haughty
What is arrogant or snobbish?
Gloin's explanation of Gandalf's mark on Bilbo's door
What is Burglar wants a good job, plenty of Excitement and reasonable Reward?*
*you can say Expert Treasure Hunter instead of Burglar if you like
Names of two swords from the trolls with special rune markings decoded by Elrond
What are Glamdring and Orcrist?
Description of a goblin
What is rough, cruel, wicked, a tunneling creature who makes no beautiful things, eats ponies, and sings of beating people?
Plunder
What is stolen items?
Venerable
What is worthy of respect because of age or dignity?
What is a burrahobbit?
The 3 ways Elrond helps our travelers
What are: (1) interpreting runes/moon letters, (2) giving information that helps them arrive at the mountain's secret entrance (3) offering rest and a place to stay
The simile Tolkien uses to describe how well the goblins know their own passages.
What is "but the goblins knew their way, as well as you do to the nearest post-office?"
Prudent
What is sensible and wise?
Purloined
What is stole, took dishonestly (past tense of steal)?
What is hooting twice like a barn-owl and once like a screech-owl?
Durin's Day
What is the last moon of autumn that appears in the sky with the sun and the First day of Dwarves New Year?
One line from the goblins' songs as the travelers approach them
Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho,ho my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! More dare to shirts, While Goblins quaff and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!