LORD OF THE RINGS JEOPARDY! 

I missed my own premier LOL! I had a call run late.

When daniel said we were doing trivia about Peter Jackson's best movie I figured he meant the 2005 cinema classic "King Kong." Otherwise I would've been SO prepared.

Let's do a Dune one. I shall be redeemed!

Rebecca knowing almost everything but then missing out on the meme lmao.

It seems very fitting that RF Kuang would take out all the most valuable questions to destroy her opponents' chances of winning.

Daniel: I am a strict host Also Daniel: I will also take Little Stoner Dudes

Sweet!! This was a lot of fun!!

I didnt think I was that much of a LOTR nerd, but jesus I know almost all of these.

Can't wait to see R. Kuang in another video! She's the type of person I aspire to be :)

Daniel just casually playing LOTR jeopardy with an award winning author.

Seeing Quinn here was unexpected, but at the same time a pleasant surprise. He’s gonna have his graphic novel released next year, so a shoutout to him!

I was going to get to the Poppy War soon, but knowing she's a huge Tolkien nerd too I feel like I have to read it next.

This was awesome! Would love love love to see some Wheel of Time jeopardy in the future!

I'm with Rebecca on "Durin's Bane" answer - wasn't Gothmog, from the first age the only named Balrog?

Rebecca looked thoroughly disappointed in her competition.

The word “gaffer” is a contraction of “godfather” with its vowels influenced by the word “grandfather”. It’s generally used outside of Britain to mean “old man”. The informal British usage roughly refers to the leader of a team, a boss, foreman or coach. The word can also refer to a sailor or (in coastal maritime regions) a baby who resides in a house. The feminine version of the word is “gammer” which roughly means “old woman”. It’s also important to note that the word “gaffer” in English also independently refers to the head lighting tech on a movie set or a glassblower. These meanings of the word “gaffer” are etymologically derived from the word “gaff” meaning “hook” or “to hook” (it can be either a noun or a verb) and the ‘-er’ suffix which is added to a verb to make it into a noun denoting a person or thing which performs that action.

The word “hithlain” means “mist thread” in Sindarin. We unfortunately don’t know what exactly it is based on the text of the The Lord of the Rings as Haldir tells Sam he doesn’t have time to explain how it’s made and what it’s made of. An early draft though, which is now collected in the seventh volume of the History of Middle Earth entitled The Treason of Isengard, states that Hithlain is made of fibers from the bark of the mallorn tree. This may or may not have been the final intention of Tolkien as he discarded this statement before the final published draft.

Torech Ungol and Cirith Ungol are different. Cirith Ungol is the entire pass into Mordor, while Torech Ungol is specifically Shelob's Lair within Cirith Ungol. Also if we're being very specific, the 'Dwarven home' that was called a mine would be Khazad-dûm rather than Moria, since it was only called Moria after it had ceased to be their home. Also Harad is almost certainly larger than Rhovanion going by Tolkien's Ambarkanta Map V published in The Shaping of Middle-earth, though that's also going off of regions known to us as readers. Harad is really just a general term for the land south of Gondor, and is probably split up into smaller regions we don't know about (just as 'the Westlands' refers to all of western Middle-earth and Rhûn to the East).

It'd be amazing just to see Colbert ok this kinda thing atleast once 😂😂

The fact that there exists a video series were Nux Taku and Rebecca Kuang are both participants is insane

While Gwaihir is the greatest (fastest and strongest) eagle in the third age, the only ever official king of the eagles was thorondor

Cirith Ungol was the pass through the mountains near Shelob's Lair. I didn't even know Shelob's Lair had a name other than Shelob's Lair.

Old gaffer = corruption of "grandfather". There's a mention somewhere of "gaffers and gammers", as well. (Thus, Sam's "Gaffer" was not actually *his* gaffer; it's just that "the Gaffer" was his dad.)

Cosmere Jeopardy would be brutal!

"You should never step between a Nazgul and his lunch - they're very hungry." *cuts to Burger King commercial*

Daniel we 100 percent need a first law jeopardy

I wanna see Discworld Jeopardy.

It's official. Jake is the comedian on deck

This was pretty cool. You should do Stormlight next

Question 18 was a weird question, but I enjoyed this. The Book of Lost Tales is criminally under read. And so is The Lord of the Rings from the sound of it. Haha.

Also on the white tree question my mind jumped to nimloth as a symbol of Númenor

11:55 - It's actually Udun. A deep enclosed deepness before the entrance to Mordor

Speaking off the top of my head here, but didn't Aragorn also have a brooch given to him by Galadriel? That used to belong to Galadriel's daughter, Celebrian?? Also that question about the evil cat was SO hard, as I think the only place it's mentioned is in Book of Lost Tales pt. 2. And Tolkien really hated cats. I think the only two times he mentions them in his works that I know of depict them as evil. He liked dogs though, what with Huan.

How do you get Rebecca Kuang to just casually join a Lotr Jeopardy video???

I think I've watched first 10 seconds of this like thousand times. Rebecca's reaction to Jake's words is so priceless and gleeful.

ASOIAF jeopardy would be great.

The ring is definetly adressed... In The Two Towers, Grima talks about it to Sauroman...

A lot of these questions I knew from playing the Lord of the Rings card game.

I haven't watched Jeopardy in some time now, but I'm pretty sure the answers need to be in a question form to count

We need a Dresden files version of this

Ok now we desperately need one for the Wheel of Time

Good thing Tim (HelloFutureMe) is in a different time zone, I feel like he'd have given Rebecca a run for her money. Plus he's mad competitive, would have been fun

Man Carrying Thing going, "that was 100 it was so hard" at the very beginning was a mood.

I love how comfortable Daniel is at ribbing jake and he takes it well - that’s some pretty wholesome content right there

A Dresden Files version would be so much fun!

Lmao Jake just saying whatever.

This was absolutely great to watch. More please!!!

Hey I got most of those :) Well played Rebecca!! Good effort Jake

I'm assuming this just didn't get enough views but I hope you make more of these it was a lot of fun to watch.

Since you showed his face, it would be cool as hell and hilarious to have Stephen Colbert on something like this lol. Also please invite Jake and Quinn again to do this but with Dune or broader classic SF. 🙏 Also no fair giving the eagle question to R.F. Kuang when she didn't say Thorondor but not giving the answer to Quinn when he got it so close. 😔

I'd love to do this as a participant for The Night Angel Series, or anything from Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman. Almost on book 5 of the Lightbringer, or I'd do the same there.

I'm here from the manga side of things so it's really fun seeing how your normal fans must feel watching the one piece videos lol

I honestly never finished the books exactly. I read most of it but skipped the majority of Sam and frodo's story .

Fun fact, was reading a copy of the silmarillion or the solo Turin book, and there was a line in Christopher’s notes saying telvido was originaly just Sauron chilling as a cat, but changed before the book was actually published

Dune Jeopardy please! Even if it's just for the Kwisatz Haderach questions.

Nerdy smart, accomplished author, and amazingly beautiful; Rebecca is a real triple threat!

Gimli would have never called it “the mines of Moria” Moria means “black pit” and at the time he thought his cousin Balin was ruling there. He would have called it Khazad Dum!

I didn't know Rebecca Kuang, but I guess I'm reading The Poppy War now.

Never thought the day would come when I would compare Rebecca kuang to Tekking 101but here we are

I didnt know this was poppy war's author until you said it 🤣 such a nice person

I completely forgot Rebecca was the author of the Poppy War until Daniel mentioned it again

Durin’s Bane is just one name given that particular Balrog. Most of the Maiar have multiple names and most of those were given to them by non-Ainur. Even Gothmog has other names (Kalimbo, Kosomot and Kosmoko; with the first of these meaning “savage, barbarian, monster” in Qenya and the last two both meaning “war-hate” in Qenya).

wheel of time, dresden files, & malazan jeopardy's please!

Can you do more of these? It was fun to follow along myself with the quiz and see how many I knew.

Man I hope we see Colbert on this in the future.

Did this just disappear for half a year and return now 👀I'm not complaining I totally thought this was just gone forever

Wait WHAT!

wow Rebecca is so much younger than i expected, apparently she released Poppy War when she was only 21

I’m a fan of all of them and I don’t know who to root for.

rebecca did better than i expected and jake did worse than i expected

I think I could beat anyone at this game, I’m pretty confident in my lotr lore knowledge! I didn’t miss a single one lol Would be cool to play with other Tolkien junkies, I wonder if there’s a way we could set up an online version of this game open to anyone who wants to play. That would be super cool. I’ll have to look into such a thing to see how it could be done lol

Obviously you gotta do Stormlight Jeopardy!

I mean… I guess a lot of people have done it, but obviously WoT jeopardy

I don't know whether to love myself or hate myself that I shouted all the (right) answers outloud to myself. 😬😬

Dammmnnn I'm setting notifications on.

The most precious thing in this video is rebecca

This was great Do more!

This one was just awesome 🙂🙂

R F KUANG??!?!?!?! HOW?????? WTF. I am shooketh. HOW DID NO ONE KNOW THAT LAST ONE?!?!??!

Was morgoth in the lord of the rings if so i dont remember them talking about his cat

I just saw RFK in the thumbnail and clicked. I'm currently reading her Poppy War trilogy and it's great. Coming from someone who doesn't read a lot.

Jake 🍻

"I so clearly remember that scene where..." fails to remember the scene correctly 😂 No hate, it was just funny

I’m not sure if it’s sad or cool that I got all of the questions correct.

next one should be eragon lore. movie and book because it would be so funny. maybe have maddie in it?

Gaffer is an English term for "Boss"

I could have sworn you said "Rogue Onion," for the largest region of Middle Earth...which, come to think of it would be a great band name.

I played along with you guys, it was fun!

I loved this

lol this wasn't even fair -- Rebecca came out swinging

Bro I wanna partake in the Lord of the Rings stuff. Okay Daniel. I will become popular, just to partake...or something.

I do enjoy seeing Jake fail dramatically over and over again, it’s cathartic

Damn you guys. I got all the quotes right but like none of the other hard ones lol

I love that REBECCA KUANG is here. HOLY SHIT.

Man carrying things has a Stephen king kind of chaos vibe

Hithlain was a strong fibre made from the inner bark of mallorn trees

Is there a favored person to win or will this be a close match?

In twentieth century British slang a gaffer is a boss, a foreman or head gardener or floor manager or such. Basically the boss immediately over the workers. You don’t hear it used so much these days.

Love this. Would love more jeopardy nerdom.

What about a Silmarillion one?