Quip of the Rings

December 9, 2021 7:41 PM

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the theatrical release of The Fellowship of the Ring, and I am putting together a custom Lord of the Rings themed Quiplash game to play with friends. Looking for ideas for Quiplash prompts for this purpose.

Quiplash 2 allows players to create their own prompts for a custom Quiplash game, and I thought it would be a fun way to celebrate. However, I'm much better at coming up with quips than prompts, so any suggestions are appreciated.

I looked at sample Quiplash prompts and tried to model mine on their structure. Here are some examples of what I have so far:

The 10th member of the Fellowship
The name of a cooking show hosted by Samwise Gamgee
The worst thing to hear Frodo say on arrival at Mount Doom
___ could have destroyed the One Ring simply with a cutting remark

All ideas welcome, the sillier and more ridiculous the better.

posted by panther of the pyrenees to Media & Arts (9 answers total)

What the ring was really whispering to Boromir
How Frodo tells Merry and Pippin apart
What is Gimli hiding under that beard
How did Merry and Pippin pass the time while waiting for Frodo to wake up in Rivendell
How does Legolas manage his hair care while questing
Where does Gandalf go when he disappears
What else did that Ent draught do to the hobbits
How Eowyn was (almost) caught out on the way to Gondor
What did Gimli really want to show Legolas in the glittering caves
What was Pippin planning to do with that Palantir
How did Merry and Pippin pass the time during the entmoot
posted by buildmyworld at 7:53 PM on December 9, 2021

What comes between second breakfast and elevenses?
Legolas, what do your elf eyes see?
What goes with "man flesh"?
Deep in the archives of Minas Tirith, Gandalf found this
Nobody ___s a dwarf!
The dwarves of Moria found their riches not in silver or in gold but...
Why did they really cut Tom Bombadil from the movies?
"_____, or There and Back Again"
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 8:08 PM on December 9, 2021

"Looks like meat's back on the menu boys", but what else is good at the restaurants of Mordor?
posted by crocomancer at 2:00 AM on December 10, 2021 [1 favorite]

In a related vein, what are some names of restaurants in Mordor?
posted by quinndexter at 5:11 AM on December 10, 2021

The Entwives aren’t missing, they’re just _________.

Things Sauron wishes he *hadn’t* seen with his fiery eye.

Elves won’t admit that ____________ is the secret ingredient in lembas bread.

Arwen knew Aragorn was a keeper when he __________ on their first date.

The blue wizards were fired for ___________ while on duty.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:56 AM on December 10, 2021

Before he came back as the White, he considered being Gandalf the ___________.

The real reason Wormtongue got his nickname:

Before making orcs, Saruman practiced by making __________.

Before the hobbits showed up at the Prancing Pony, Strider had been looking forward to a night of _______.

This is how the Witch-King of Angmar relaxes after a long day:
posted by solotoro at 10:42 AM on December 10, 2021

Seven Stars, Seven Stones and One White Tree. Oh, and ______ .
posted by sourcequench at 12:01 PM on December 10, 2021

My Quiplash 3 implementation of this idea, plagiarized heavily from this thread:

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(I know the original poster asked for QL2. I choose 3 for the third-round structure and the somewhat more robust mod tools.)

Notes:

• I've included material from the movie trilogy, the main text of the literary trilogy, and The Hobbit (book not movies). Nothing from appendices, Silmarillion or supplementary texts.
• The prompts in and of themselves are SFW, though some are likely to inspire NSFW answers depending on your group.
• A lot of the prompts I added to get to a full 64 were just deadly-serious Tolkien quotes with a word or phrase replaced with a blank. I expect these will work with my regular play group; YMMV.
• In QL3, to play a custom game created by someone else, start as though you're going to play a regular game. Once the VIP is logged in, on the browser screen where they choose an avatar, there will be an episode button at the bottom. That will take you to a place where you can enter the code above. You cannot get there from the "make your own" button on the game launch screen.

posted by sourcequench at 10:07 AM on December 11, 2021

Response by poster: Thank you all, some of these made me laugh out loud!
posted by panther of the pyrenees at 1:05 PM on December 12, 2021