Pop Culture Trivia 1: LOTR. -JHPS

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Across
  1. 3. First two words of the Ring inscription, in Black Speech
  2. 4. Used to stop or slow transformation into a wraith
  3. 14. These Nine hooded jerks were once men
  4. 15. Sauron called this arachnid monstrosity his "cat"
  5. 16. The Flame rekindled, Sauron's robber reborn
  6. 18. "[Its] gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth and flesh" -Saruman
  7. 20. The only weapon to ever pierce the Great Spider of Cirith Ungol
  8. 22. A crossbreed most foul, created in a mountain of fangs
  9. 24. The blade broken: ring-thief
  10. 27. Also known as the Morannon, constructed by the Dark Lord.
  11. 28. Origin of Aragorn's lineage
  12. 30. A heart most stout, and a stomach most prodigious
  13. 32. Bride of the Barrow-wight's Banisher
  14. 33. A very improper Hobbit family
  15. 37. "That still only counts as one!" -Gimli, after Legolas killed it
  16. 38. Frodo's parents died here, allegedly by foul play
  17. 40. Creatures who live in this dark forest wear four pairs of shoes
  18. 42. A cookfire here resulted in near-death for Frodo
  19. 44. Gandalf's favorite piece of jewelry
  20. 46. Durin's Bane
  21. 47. Frodo's alias
  22. 48. Grima, colloquially
Down
  1. 1. Smeagol's counterpart
  2. 2. Aragorn calls the ghost army by this title
  3. 5. The name Bree-folk knew Aragorn by
  4. 6. Per Gamgee, there's only one way to eat a brace of these
  5. 7. Brave, but not brave enough for the mines
  6. 8. This loveable shortstack is not to be tossed- I mean, trifled with
  7. 9. ______ is to Morgoth as Lucifer is to Satan
  8. 10. Defeated the Fellowship and forced them below
  9. 11. This iconic character was supposedly a representation of CS Lewis
  10. 12. Realm ruled by a specter that no man could touch
  11. 13. Father of the first Shire Hobbit to bear the Ring
  12. 17. Another name for the Gray Pilgrim, used in Gondor
  13. 19. It always "took" this fool forever to learn
  14. 21. Galadriel told Legolas to beware the call of these birds
  15. 23. Home of pirates and mercenaries, who were victims of hijacking by Aragorn
  16. 25. A corrupt member of the river-folk.
  17. 26. Chewy and tough, but "not bad" per Gamgee
  18. 29. A large barren plain just North of a haunted swamp
  19. 31. "I am no man"
  20. 32. The goblins simply called this great sword "Beater."
  21. 34. Employed two Hobbits. Ran a place that's like a dancing horse.
  22. 35. Catching one almost cost Gollum his life at Faramir's hand
  23. 36. What do Sauron, Saruman and Denethor all have in common?
  24. 39. A flower oft associated with Rohan's dead heroes
  25. 41. Tolkien's Archangels
  26. 43. The Ring killed this guy after he refused to destroy it
  27. 45. "A little late to be trimming the _____, don't you think?!" -Gandalf
  28. 46. This geriatric gave a gift worth his whole home country