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- MIDDLE EARTH QUIZ
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- 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
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