Fair Friends of Fierce Foes
Who was:
1. An old man with bushy eyebrows, a pointed blue hat, long grey cloak, silver scarf, and long white beard?
Answer
Gandalf the Grey.
2. A huge man with a thick black beard and hair, great bare arms and legs of knotted muscle, wearing a wool tunic to his knees?
AnswerBeorn, the skin-changer.
3. Manlike, with bright blue eyes and a long brown beard, a red face creased with laugh lines, great yellow boots, and a blue coat?
AnswerTom Bombadil.
4. A tall man, dark haired and grey-eyed, with a stern face, wearing a collar of silver set with a single white stone and bearing a great horn tipped with silver?
AnswerBoromir.
5. Fourteen feet high with a tall head and almost no neck, large seven-toed feet, and a sweeping, bushy grey beard. Solemn eyes and a deep, deep voice?
AnswerFangorn.
6. A tall man bent with age, with long, braided white hair beneath a circlet of gold set with a single diamond, a snowy beard, and sharp eyes?
AnswerThéoden, son of Thengel.
7. A squat, gnarled man with a scraggly beard, short-legged, fat-armed, clad in grass around his waist?
AnswerGhân-buri-Ghân, headman of the Woses.