Prologue

Questions

1. Whose history is in the Red Book of Westmarch?

2. Who wrote the Red Book of Westmarch?

3. What did Gandalf the Grey go in search of, and whom did he escape from?

4. Where did Bilbo get lost?

5. What were the terms of the riddle challenge?

Answers

1. The history of the hobbits

2. Bilbo Baggins

3. He went off in search of a lost treasure and escaped from Orcs.

4. Under the Misty Mountains?

5. Bilbo ran into a miserable creature named Gollum in the mines. Gollum told Bilbo that if he could answer his riddle, Gollum would help him out of the mines, but if Bilbo could not answer the riddle, Gollum would get to eat Bilbo and kill him.