Partings
1. What gift did Éowyn give to Merry to remember Dernhelm by as he prepared to leave Edoras?
AnswerA small silver horn engraved with horsemen.
2. Where did the ending of the Fellowship of the Ring occur?
AnswerAt the Treegarth of Orthanc; Isengard.
3. Where were Legolas and Gimli going and why?
AnswerTo Fangorn Forest; Legolas had agreed to go to the Glittering Caves at Helm's Deep if Gimli would go in turn to Fangorn Forest.
4. Who did the remaining members of the company encounter on the sixth day after leaving Aragorn?
AnswerSaruman and Wormtongue.
5. The hobbits and Gandalf reached Rivendell in time for what celebration?
AnswerBilbo's one hundred and twenty-ninth birthday.
6. Why did the hobbits have to keep repeating their stories to Bilbo?
AnswerHe kept falling asleep.
7. What parting gifts did Bilbo give to Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin as they prepared to leave Rivendell?
AnswerTo Frodo he regave the mithril-mail and Sting, and three books he had written; to Sam he gave a small bag of gold; to Merry and Pippin each he gave an elf-made pipe decorated with silver and pearl.
8. Gandalf wasn’t going to the Shire with the hobbits. Where was he going instead?
AnswerTo see Tom Bombadil.
9. When the hobbits got to the Brandywine Bridge they found a locked gate. Who opened the gate?
AnswerBill Ferny.
10. What did Merry order the gate-opener to do then?
AnswerTo leave the Shire and never return.