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October 3, 2008

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WHAT I LEARNED THIS WEEK: I'm not the Lord of the Rings expert I thought I was

2:46 PM on Fri Oct 03, 2008

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I missed 6 too. Freda was related to Bilbo somehow. Frodo’s aunt or something. I could look it up in... more »

I must have read The Lord of the Rings a dozen times by now. My dad, God rest his soul, gave me The Hobbit when I was in 5th or 6th grade. I met my first boyfriend thanks to the fact we were both reading The Fellowship of the Ring in 8th grade. Throughout high school and college I read and reread the trilogy, usually starting around September 22 (Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday). But apparently I haven’t read it enough, because I was still tripped up by this quiz, which is reprinted from The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes. See how well you do—I got two of them wrong.

IKEA Product—or Lord of the Rings Character?

1. Faramir
2. Freden
3. Grundtal
4. Boromir
5. Molger
6. Galdor
7. Freda

8. Agerum
9. Babord
10. Frodo
11. Grima
12. Akerum
13. Brunkrissia
14. Sultan Hogbo

Answers after the jump:

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