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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Turin do to Brandir upon hearing that Niniel was Nienor and has killed herself?

2. What is done with the Three rings?

3. What does Morwen send with the messengers that Thingol later sends to fetch her and her new daughter?

4. What was it that caused Turambar to faint and look as if he were dead next to Glaurung?

5. Why does Brandir pass his title of Lord to Turambar?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Wainriders behavior once they believed they might be winning the war.

2. How did Turin react after the death of Sareos?

3. What does Brandir do with his title of Lord and why?

4. What makes the History of Galadriel and Celeborn and of Amroth King of Lorien so full of inconsistencies?

5. Describe Halifirien.

6. What does Glaurung tell Nienor before he dies?

7. Why is Thorin Oakenshield planning to kill Smaug?

8. What becomes of Amroth and Nimrodel?

9. Why did Turin not seek out his mother and sister after he left Thingol's court and the death of Sareos?

10. How do the people of Numenor travel and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Brandir gives council that, if heeded, would have benefited both Turin and Nienor although Brandir was working for his own benefit.

1) Was Brandir a good leader?

2) Was Brandir's request for Nienor to was good council considering his motives? why?

3) Was Brandir's decision to follow Nienor into the woods right or wrong? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Mim kept his word to the outlaws and helped them regardless of the fact that they had killed his son.

What does it say about Mim that he kept his word after such a heartbreak? Did Androg take Mim's curse seriously or not? Why was Mim able to keep his word?

Essay Topic 3

In the tale of Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner's Wife why could Erendis forgive Aldarion the first time he left for sea but not the second time?

Why did Erendis agree to send their daughter but refuse to come herself? Why did Aldarion not go and ask Erendis himself for her to come back if he had wanted her to come back like he said?

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