LOTR #23 - The White Tree of Gondor
N 59° 2 __(a)__ . __(b)__ __(c)__ __(d)__
How many White Trees was there over the ages? __(a)__
The White Tree appears as a motif upon Gondor's flag. How many stars are also on the flag? __(b)__
The Second White Tree was planted in Minas Arnor but died during the Great Plague in __(c)__ (Use the last number only!)
The Third White Tree lasted until this year of the Third Age__(d)__ (Use the second number only)
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E 17° 4 __(e)__ . __(f)__ __(g)__ __(h)__
Change the mising words into numbers (ie: Frodo = 5)
‘Verily this is a sapling of the line of Nimloth the fair; and that was a seedling of Galathilion, and that a fruit of Telperion of many names, Eldest of __(e)__. Who shall say how it comes here in the appointed hour? But this is an ancient hallow, and ere the kings failed or the Tree withered in the court, a __(g)__ must have been set here. For it is said that, though the fruit of the Tree comes seldom to ripeness, yet the life within may then lie sleeping through many long years, and none can foretell the time in which it will awake. __(f)__ this. For if ever a fruit ripens, it should be planted, lest the line die out of the world. Here it has lain hidden on the mountain, even as the rade of Elendil lay hidden in the wastes of the North. Yet the line of Nimloth is older __(h)__ than your line, King Elessar.’
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The White Tree of Gondor stood as a symbol of Gondor in the Court of the Fountain in Minas Tirith (as well as Minas Ithil). The White Tree also appears as a motif upon Gondor's flag.
The first White Tree of Gondor came from a fruit that Isildur, at great personal risk, managed to steal from Nimloth the Fair, the White Tree of Númenor, before that one was destroyed at Sauron's insistence. He suffered many wounds at this mission, and he came near death, but when the first leaf opened in the spring, Isildur was healed of his wounds.
This sapling was brought to Middle-earth on Isildur's ship, and it was eventually planted in Minas Ithil before the house of Isildur. But when Sauron returned to Middle-earth, he launched a sudden attack that captured Minas Ithil, and he destroyed the White Tree. Isildur escaped taking with him again a sapling.
When Aragorn became king he discovered (with Gandalf's help) a sapling of the White Tree upon the slopes of Mindolluin, high above the city, which he reverently planted in its rightful place.
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