Trivia Thread!

[Erestor Arcamen]

So again, we may seem to have some similarities, as you are also a drinker of Teas.

We must be cautious, lest the gossips talk.

Well if I ever decide to throw a TTF tea party, I'll know who to invite first

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Thanks for the clarification of your home! So, does Treebeard still see well? Hath he passed?

 

[Ent]

Thanks for the clarification of your home! So, does Treebeard still see well? Hath he passed?

I cannot say.
As the Ages have gone on, even those trees which had already become sleepy in his time, and the Ents who were becoming again positively tree-ish, continued in their digressions.
There became little need for both of us to be in the same area any more.
And with the wars of men ever going on, and the rape of the lands always in progress, the forests became ever smaller and more disconnected.

He it was that chose to move on, saying he would seek out whether there was another area that might have some need of an Ent.
(It took him a VERY long time to say all this, but I dared not interrupt him to help him to his conclusion before he had even finished his preamble. He deserved (and deserves) much respect.)

Thus I do fear (though without absolute certainty) I am the last of the Ents.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Sad indeed. Glad that one Enting is left, even if not youthful but quite well-aged.

 

[Ent]

Sad indeed. Glad that one Enting is left, even if not youthful but quite well-aged.

He was around longer than all the others (save me) who dealt with Isengard in young Saruman's time...though all were younger than he! Sadder yet, and long in the telling, are the tales of each of those as they determined one by one to abandon all concern for the forests of Middle-earth.

The proliferation of Man, in his wanton disregard for all living things, coupled with the continued inability to locate any Entwives, finally took its toll.

But even now, I try not to speak of him in 'past tense' as I cannot truly be sure. Pleasant it would be to see him again, and hear his deep rumble trying to encourage and care for the forests in the midst of Man's destructions.

But... such is life. I remember his instruction well: the one above all. "Let's not be hasty." And that applies to everything. Thus I remain.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

That last word, not being hasty-- you do very well in that I must say, Enting.

 

[Starbrow]

More tea trivia:
Tea bags were invented in 1908 in the United States by Thomas Sullivan. He created small silk bags to give samples of tea to his customers. Some of them thought that the bags were supposed to be put directly in the tea pot, like a metal infuser, rather than emptied out. Thus, the tea bag was created by accident!

Read more: https://www.teaanswers.com/tea-facts-trivia/#ixzz7dgvWkbzP
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Can I get an invitation to the TTF tea party? I'm a big tea drinker and I hate coffee.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Ooh! I want an invite too! I drink a lot of tea.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

More tea trivia:
Tea bags were invented in 1908 in the United States by Thomas Sullivan. He created small silk bags to give samples of tea to his customers. Some of them thought that the bags were supposed to be put directly in the tea pot, like a metal infuser, rather than emptied out. Thus, the tea bag was created by accident!

Read more: https://www.teaanswers.com/tea-facts-trivia/#ixzz7dgvWkbzP
Follow us: @TeaAnswers on Twitter

Can I get an invitation to the TTF tea party? I'm a big tea drinker and I hate coffee.

Of course! You and @Elbereth Vala Varda are more than welcome!

Drinking tea is less likely to produce a ‘caffeine crash’ than drinking coffee. This is because the high levels of antioxidants in tea slow the absorption of caffeine, which results in a gentler increase of caffeine in your system and a longer period of alertness with no crash at the end.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Did not know the science-- but knew that it was that way. Thanks for the enlightenment. It is the right thread, after all.

 

[Eljorahir]

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.’"
........................... Sherlock Holmes

"But the Solar System!", I protest!

 

[Berzelmayr]

Trivia from the movie "The Hunt for Red October":

Despite some speculation, the fact that the political officer aboard Red October was named Putin is most probably a coincidence. Russian President Vladimir Putin was a former KGB agent. At the time this story is set, the real-life Putin would have been a low-ranking agent not known to the general Russian public, let alone to Americans.

More: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv

 

[Ent]

Trivia: I enjoyed Clancy's early books, but by the time he got to "Cardinal of the Kremlin" they were just ponderous and boring. Haven't read any since.
(I think maybe they started paying him by the page or word or something... but the result was concrete tomes fit for tying to the feet of somebody the mob wanted to drown.)

Other than that I think his stuff is fine.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln --"

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Neptune has only completed one orbit around the Sun since its discovery. Neptune takes a whopping 165 years to complete one full orbit around the Sun. Since it was discovered in 1846, Neptune only recently finished its first full post-discovery orbit in 2011.

Demoted planet Pluto has yet to match this – it is not even close to completing one full, 248-year orbit since its discovery in 1930.

 

[Olorgando]

Demoted planet Pluto has yet to match this – it is not even close to completing one full, 248-year orbit since its discovery in 1930.

Hmmm. that pretty much the age that a Dwarf reached on average if not dying prematurely due to warfare - but astronomy from underground?

 

[Ent]

There are 5 primary contributors to tree death.
- Adverse Environment.
- Harmful insects and Disease
- Catastrophic Events
- Old Age
- Timber Harvests

Hanging around here I'm already experiencing the first 4. Perhaps I should run before #5 sets in. 😁

 

[Olorgando]

There are 5 primary contributors to tree death.
- Adverse Environment.
- Harmful insects and Disease
- Catastrophic Events
- Old Age
- Timber Harvests

Hanging around here I'm already experiencing the first 4. Perhaps I should run before #5 sets in. 😁

Something that you, as an Ent(ing), are at least able to do, in contrast to trees.
But considering what the Ents did to the stone walls surrounding Isengard, you should be able to crumple any annoying harvester like tinfoil ...

 

[Ent]

stone walls

Well.. it's much harder to get a good grip on iron and steel, than on stone... and I can't send my little roots and shoots into it to break it apart as we did with Isengard. (Saruman had the technology... he just lacked foresight.)

And, I am alone. The rest of the Ents have gone to tree or passed, and the Hourns went to sleep long ago.
Thus, if surrounded by steel and iron beasts, the flames come next.

My shepherding is done. Better to seek out a new patch of forest than to remain.

 

[Berzelmayr]

from Pinocchio (1940):
According to sequence director Jack Kinney, Christian Rub (the voice of Geppetto) was a Nazi sympathizer who drove the animation crew crazy with his ramblings about the glories of Adolf Hitler. They eventually got even with him when they did the live-action shooting for the scene with Geppetto fishing from inside Monstro the whale. They put Rub on a makeshift stage where he pretended to fish while the stage was jostled by some grips who "rocked the boat" to give the desired effect and effectively "giving Rub a ride he never forgot".