The Choices of Master Samwise Trivia Quiz

Answer: He cut off a claw on one of her feet.

"But almost before she was aware that a fury was upon her greater than any she had known in countless years, the shining sword bit upon her foot and shore away the claw." -LotR Collector's edition

Answer: She didn't have one.

"But Shelob was not as dragon's are, no softer spot had she save only her eyes. Knobbed and pitted with corruption was her age-old hide, but ever thickened from within with layer on layer of evil growth."

Answer: Galadriel

"...he fumbled in his breast with his left hand, and found what he sought: cold and hard and solid it seemed to his touch in a phantom world of horror, the Phial of Galadriel.
'Galadriel!' he said faintly..."

Answer: He shines the strengthened phial in her eyes so that she retreats to her caves.

"As is his indomitable spirit had set its potency in motion, the glass blazed suddenly like a white torch in his hand. It flamed like a star that leaping from the firmament sears the dark air with intolerable light. No such terror out of heaven had ever burned in Shelob's face before.

The beams of it entered into her wounded head and scored it with intolerable pain, and the dreadful infection of light spread from eye to eye. She fell back beating the air with her forelegs, her sight blasted by inner lightings, her mind in agony.

Then turning her maimed head away, she rolled aside and began to crawl, claw by claw, towards the opening in the dark cliff beyond."

Answer: the Phial of Galadriel, Sting, and the One Ring

"'If I'm to go on,' he said, 'then I must take your sword, by your leave Mr. Frodo, but I'll put this one to lie by you, as it lay by the old king in the barrow; and you've got your beautiful mithril coat from old Mr. Bilbo. And your star-glass, Mr. Frodo, you did lend it to me and I'll need it, for I'll always be in the dark now.'
And then he bent down his own neck and out the chain upon it, and at once his head was bowed to the ground with the weight of the Ring, as if a great stone had been strung on him."

Answer: To come back and find Frodo's body again.

"'And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Goodbye!'"

Answer: When he hears the orcs coming towards him from both sides after he has left Frodo.

"And then suddenly he heard cries and voices. Orc-voices. They were behind him and before him.
In a minute they would reach the top and be on him. He had taken too long to make up his mind, and now it was no good. How could he escape, or save himself, or save the Ring? The Ring. He was not aware of any thought or decision. He simply found himself drawing out the chain and taking the Ring in ihs hand. The head of the orc-company appeared in the Cleft right before him. Then he put it on."

Answer: Shagrat and Gorbag

"'Hola! Gorbag! What are you doing up here? Had enough of war already?'
'Orders, you lubber. And what are you doing, Shagrat? Tired of lurking up there? Thinking of coming down to fight?'
'Orders to you. I'm in command of this pass. So speak civil. What's your report?'"

Answer: A large elf warrior.

"'By all the signs, Captain Shagrat, I'd say there's a large warrior loose, Elf most likely, with an elf-sword anyway, and an axe as well maybe; and he's loose in your bounds, too, and you've never spotted him. Very funny indeed!' Gorbag spat. Sam smiled grimly at the description of himself."

Answer: Frodo was alive but taken by the enemy.

"The great doors slammed to. Boom. The bars of iron fell into place inside. Clang. The gate was shut. Sam hurled himself against the bolted brazen plates and fell senseless to the ground. He was out in the darkness. Frodo was alive but taken by the enemy."