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   Troels Forchhammer wrote:   
      
   > Mineral kingdom   
      
   Just for fun I have made a list of 62 inorganic objects in Tolkien's   
   Middle Earth. This list is merely for the edification of observers   
   and participants in this round of Twenty Questions, but I am not asking   
   if the Target Object is listed, as this may be against the Game Rules   
   (which are, as yet, mostly unwritten). Troels of course is free   
   to comment on the list or remain silent.   
      
   Alert readers will immediately note that there are actually 63 items   
   in the list. That is because #4 is story-external but exists by   
   inference, having been discussed at some length on this forum. It's my   
   belief that they are the Rings forged for and offered to the Ents,   
   and they don't appear in the story because the Ents, not being hasty   
   folk, were still considering, well into the Fourth Age, whether   
   to accept them.   
      
   An item consisting of a group of objects is understood to mean either   
   the whole group or one member of the group. A special Unwritten Rule   
   applies to the case where an object may be part of an object,   
   such as #24. Also it is arguable that #36 is identical with #53,   
   but I will leave this to The Wise to determine.   
      
   1. The One   
   2. The Three (or stones set therein such as the one Sam didn't see)   
   3. The Five   
   4. The Seven   
   5. The Nine   
   6. The pre-Great-Ring essays in the craft   
   7. The Arkenstone   
   8. Bilbo's Mithril corslet   
   9. Mount Doom (all mineral, isn't it?)   
   10. Sting   
   11. Glamdring ("Foe-hammer") aka Beater   
   12. Orcrist ("Goblin-cleaver") aka Biter   
   13. Gimli's axe-blade   
   14. The orc's iron collar which notched the above   
   15. Herugrim, Théoden's ancient blade   
   16. Narsil, reforged as Andúril ("Flame of the West")   
   17. Eomer's sword, which he lay at King Theodden's feet   
   18. Frodo's barrow blade, broken telekinetically by Nazgul   
   19. Sam's barrow blade   
   20. Merry's barrow blade, evaported by wounding Nazgul   
   21. Eowyn's sword, evaporated by decapitating Nazgul   
   22. Pippin's barrow blade, the "Troll's Bane"   
   23. The mirror of Galadriel   
   24. The Morgul Knife (or broken tip) that hurt Frodo at Weathertop   
   25. Grima's hidden knife used to kill Saruman   
   26. Sam's shears   
   27. The 12 silver pennies Bill Ferney charged for Bill the pony   
   28. One of the pennies Bilbo gave away before the Party   
   29. The treasure that Bilbo brought home from Erebor   
   30. The Palantir at Orthanc   
   31. The Palantir at Minas Tirith   
   32. The Palantir at Minas Ithil (aka Mias Morgul)   
   33. The imperishable crystal into which Gimli intended to set   
        Galadriel's hair   
   34. The stone floor of the house at Crickhollow   
   35. Tom Bombadil's threshold   
   36. The pinnacle of stone in Frodo's dream in Tom's house   
   37. One of the Standing Stones in the Barrow Downs   
   38. The stone at Weathertop that bore the 'G' rune   
   39. The beryl, or Elf-stone that Glorfindel left on the bridge   
   40. The Witch-King's iron crown   
   41. One of the watery horses with frothing manes in the Bruinen flood   
   42. The noon-bell that rang during the Council of Elrond   
   43. The stone that Boromir cast into the Moria gate pond   
   44. The stone that Pippin cast into the chasm in Moria   
   45. The slab of white stone in the Chamber of Mazarbul   
   46. The Bridge of Khazad-dûm   
   47. The Balrog's blade like a stabbing tongue of fire   
   48. The water in the Pool of Mirrormere   
   49. Haldir's lamp used up a tree to check on Frodo and Sam   
   50. Denethor's stone chair   
   51. Grond, the Enemy's battering ram   
   52. King Elessar's crown   
   53. Orthanc   
   54. The Watchers in Cirith Ungol   
   55. The iron doors of the Black Gate   
   56. Frodo's phial of Eärendil's starlight   
   57. The Brandywine Bridge gate key that Bill Ferny flung at Merry   
   58. The sturdy old gaffer's hedge clippers (in Scouring)   
   59. The helmet used to wash away Grima's expectorate   
   60. Sandyman's original millstone   
   61. Lotho's new millstone, wheels or outlandish contraptions   
   62. Aragorn's Green Stone   
   63. Pippin's Elven-cloak broach dropped while captive   
      
   SQ   
      
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