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MIDDLE EARTH QUIZ
Sent in by: Henry Newcomb
1931 Farm Rd.
Lake Forest,IL 60045
(Revised for C-64 by Donna K. Woody)
Graphic borrowed from Doodle!
[PREFACE:] The first of three LORD OF
THE RINGS movies will be released
soon. From the promotions, trailers,
and photos on the Web, it looks like
the filmmakers are getting it right.
So it is time for us old Tolkien fans
to bone up on the lore.
'Middle Earth Quiz' is a short
quiz designed to test your knowledge
of Tolkien's Middle Earth. The quiz
has 32 questions and you can add many
more. Educators can adapt it to more
scholarly subject matter. All of the
questions are multiple choice and you
can always exit the program by press-
ing the 'X' key. Hope you enjoy it!!
[POSTFACE:] I happened on this great
little quiz on LOADSTAR #2 while
copying back issues for Michel Gaudet.
(That's "MICHAEL" with a French
spelling -- a monicker misshap Mike
has loathed and laughed about his
whole life.)
A media tie-in is always great. From
what I have seen so far, TLOTR will be
a definitive translation to the
screen. My one hope is that the Holly
Movie Theatre's renovation will be
complete in time for the premier.
(Yes! Holly, a town of 1,000 souls,
has its own movie theatre. When the
movie house became commercially
unprofitable, the town bought the
building and volunteers handle the
tickets and popcorn. Last year,
someone learned that a theatre in
Pueblo was being completely redone.
Holly was able to get all the used
stuff -- a quartz-halogen "pancake"
projector, surround sound, and new
seats -- at a bargain price. The
renovation has taken much longer than
expected, but on the "Coming Soon"
sign out front, we now have a LOTR
poster. Hope springs eternal!!)
I read The Trilogy in 1969 in five
days, and have been back to Middle
Earth several times since. It seems
somewhat weird that computers and
"swords and sorcery" have been linked
since the earliest days of personal
computing. Then again, code writers
are the last living "sourcerers" in
the world!
If you have read this far without
pressing the <R> key, you need to do
so now! By the way -- does anyone out
there know J. R. R. Tolkien's full
name? No fair looking. And, No -- this
is not a contest. (Too easy to look!)
DMM