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

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

Sweet!! This was a lot of fun!!

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

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

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.

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

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

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).

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

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

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.)

It's official. Jake is the comedian on deck

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

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

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.

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.

Cosmere Jeopardy would be brutal!

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

Daniel we 100 percent need a first law jeopardy

This was pretty cool. You should do Stormlight next

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

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

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.

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 wanna see Discworld Jeopardy.

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.

This was great Do more!

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.

This was so cool, well done Mr Goblin and everyone

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 played along with you guys, it was fun!

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

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

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

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

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

ASOIAF jeopardy would be great.

This one was just awesome 🙂🙂

Love this. Would love more jeopardy nerdom.

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

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

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

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).

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. 😔

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

We need a Dresden files version of this

Lmao Jake just saying whatever.

A Dresden Files version would be so much fun!

I loved this

Dammmnnn I'm setting notifications on.

Ok now we desperately need one for the Wheel of Time

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

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

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

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

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!

Obviously you gotta do Stormlight Jeopardy!

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

I can't give but just one like, but count it as a hundred, anyway. Amazing video, LotR and laughs, what else could I ask for? Long life to you, mellon of mine.

i have no idea how much Tekking knows about Lord of the Rings but something tells me he would know the geography question

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

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

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

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

Gaffer is generally a of endearment for a boss or someone so with boss like status. My granddad (from Yorkshire, England) used to use it to describe me and him, ie. Big gaffer (him) and little gaffer (me) when we were doing a job. I don't know if this is just a term used in certain areas of the UK but it's also used in sports like cricket and rugby to describe coaches/managers. I've always assume Sam is using it to describe either his father/grandfather as a term of endearment but also respect.

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

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.

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

Cool video

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

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.

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

The most precious thing in this video is rebecca

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

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

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

Rebecca bossed that. I’m a $200 level player. Good theme bro. Stormlight one please. Peace

Man carrying things has a Stephen king kind of chaos vibe

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

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

That was great

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

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

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

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.

6:02 - that's from the Book of Lost Tales. Not LoTR at all. It's BTW a paraphrase of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet 'what is Tybalt? More than Prince of Cats'

Haha. Why is Quinn even there . Classic.

Wait WHAT!