@@te9591 Based off me hearing his name in passing, and reading the books forever ago and not remembering him at all, I thought he was just a dude that sang songs.
@@Eidlones Tom Bombadil is a mirror that reveals the reader's true self. He is an enigma. A mystery Tolkien intentionally left behind in his tale for readers to mull over. I personally love the character, him and his wife Goldberry, but not every reader is fan.
I really wish people would ask Stephen Lord of the Rings questions that are about the movies/books instead of tertiary facts. I just want to watch him nerd out about it for 5-10 minutes.
Lmao, when Scott asks stephen what the fourth line of the second part of the silmarillion was he was actually able to work it out in his head, that man knows his Tolkien! haha
Hmmm, is Maglor? The one who threw his simaril into the sea? And Right?! I want real questions like, "How many times did Fingolfin wound Morgoth in the duel beneath Thangorodrim and overlooking what city was his tomb?" or "What Great Dragon did Turin defeat and with what sword did he do it with?" I hope the questions aren't given to him beforehand
The other one he had was a crap question too: "fourth line of the second part of the Silmarillion"? What about something actually interesting, like, "Whose skeleton do Aragorn and Co. find after passing through the door under Dwimorberg?"
Okay, here is your Lord of the Ring Question that will determine your true level of Tolkienry! Here it comes! Ready? "Which Lord of the Rings character from the movies is Snooki's favourite?"
Yes, it was, tangentially. The Beatles were superstars, Tolkien was still living & refused to sell the Beatles the rights. As much as I would have liked to see Beatles as LOTR, I can't say i blame Tolkien.
Utterly guessing, eh Stephen? That is literally the only way to play that game on the later questions. The utter randomness is sometimes completely astounding...
Second part? Meaning Valaquenta? Of course I had to look it up, but still wanted to post it. "Therefore Ilúvatar gave to their vision Being, and set it amid the Void, and the Secret Fire was sent to burn at the heart of the World; and it was called Eä."
One very simple response: Jack-in-the-box. The quiz game on Twitch. I would love, and I mean LOVE, Stephen Colbert to have his own , entirely based on LoTRs trivia.
That was a garbage question. I was really hoping someone would ask a real difficult Lord of the Rings question that involved the lore of Middle Earth. A question like, "How was the Middle Earth Universe created?" or "Who was the only person in Middle Earth History to ever steal back a Silmaril from Morgoth?" or "How many recorded marriages have there been between Men and Elves?" or "Why do Elves and Dwarves hate each other?" These kinds of questions are GOOD questions to ask Stephen Colbert.
But those aren't hard! 1) The song of Iluvatar, followed by the wars of the creation of Arda to actually fulfill the vision once the Ainur descended. 2) Beren 3) 3. Beren x Luthien, Earendil x Elwing, Arwen x Aragorn, 4) a fairly petty dispute over a piece of jewelry according to the Hobbit, which was augmented according to the Silmarillion by confirming that jewel was a Silmaril.
I clicked on this because of the LOTR trivia, right away, not even knowing who the guest was and originally not caring. But hey, that's the guy from HQ Trivia, that was a nice surprise (I've played only a few times so the name didn't really stick but I always liked him).
wow I can't believe HQ is that big. Pretty fascinating to see Scott on the show. And yeah, I've never won once. Only got to the last question once too. god damn american trivia
If you all are expecting a really die-hard Silmarillion question like ‘Name all of the Valar’. Really bad example (sorry). Then no, Scott just asks Stephen about The Lord of the Rings being casted with the stars as the Beatles.
Yeah I thought so too, and he said something about how more people join but the prize stays the same but the prize used to be 250 dollars and moves up all the time sooo....
0:52 ...thought of this concept several years ago... but the application was intended for instrumentalists to be able to play together from different places around the world in real time... 1:47
"Of old they were called in song Firinno, Olórin, and Aiwendil, but in the lore of the Eldar that is lost these names were changed, and they were called Mithrandir, Wisest of the Maiar; Olórin, who was a lover of the Eldar that remained, and Irmo in Valinor, Este in the land of Aman, and many other names; Aiwendil, the bird-lover, who was also a friend of the birds." "Valaquenta" of "The Silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The first section of The Silmarillion (not counting the foreward) is Ainulindale (the Music of the Ainur), so the second must be Valaquenta (the Powers of the World).
03:24 love the reference to the '95 movie Hackers... in case anyone was wondering when he said, "I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed..." is a quote from the poem, Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Though in Hackers I think they started with "angelheaded hipsters"... either way, its a cool thing to quote Ginsberg on the Late Show.
I feel kind of bad because the tech is pretty awesome. You can have multiple people in a room playing it and they’ll all be synced up. The live answers, all of that is pretty impressive.
It's more about the Beatles than anything else. It's like asking - "Which Chinese outlet sells LOTR knock-offs on 34th street?" ... just because the words LOTR were thrown in doesn't make it about LOTR.
My goal is to someday ask Stephen "So, what do YOU think Tom Bombadil is?"
Isn't he a sort of an immortal traveling spirit?
@@te9591 he is middle earth
@@te9591 Based off me hearing his name in passing, and reading the books forever ago and not remembering him at all, I thought he was just a dude that sang songs.
@@Eidlones Tom Bombadil is a mirror that reveals the reader's true self. He is an enigma. A mystery Tolkien intentionally left behind in his tale for readers to mull over. I personally love the character, him and his wife Goldberry, but not every reader is fan.
I want to ask him what he thinks happened to the entwives
5:31 - 5:37 the part when Stephen was trying to recall the fourth line of the second part of The Silmarillion.
*the part when Stephen most likely succeeded in recalling the fourth line of the second part of the Silmarillion 😝
I really wish people would ask Stephen Lord of the Rings questions that are about the movies/books instead of tertiary facts. I just want to watch him nerd out about it for 5-10 minutes.
agree. that was stupid.
I'd watch him nerd out on Tolkien for hours on end
I won HQ last night. $0.12! Dinner is on me!!
Caviar and lobster bisque please
lol!
congratulations!
now you can tell your boss how you really feel
AWildBard LOL
I got 13 cents! xD My first time ever winning HQ too. And I almost qualified for Jeopardy..
Lmao, when Scott asks stephen what the fourth line of the second part of the silmarillion was he was actually able to work it out in his head, that man knows his Tolkien! haha
I wanted to hear a real question like, "Who was the last surviving son of Feanor?" or something.
Hmmm, is Maglor? The one who threw his simaril into the sea?
And Right?! I want real questions like, "How many times did Fingolfin wound Morgoth in the duel beneath Thangorodrim and overlooking what city was his tomb?" or "What Great Dragon did Turin defeat and with what sword did he do it with?"
I hope the questions aren't given to him beforehand
@@aguy2162 He wounded morgoth twice and the dragon was Glaurung
@@johnnydoe7616
No. He hit him seven times and after he struggled he stabbed Morgoths foot.
the actual question asking starts at 5:09
you're welcome
PS it's a bullshit question not LOTR trivia
It is utterly amazing that the man that was in my phone is now in my computer.
I can't seem to figure out how he got from one to the other
Agreed, I haven't seen something this incredibly ground breaking since man first flew.
He just zoomed up into the sky and back down into your screen!
How can he be on your computer? He's in my phone rn..
That's good.
The sheer disappointment on Stephen’s face upon not getting a real LOTR question
By far the most disappointing LotR trivia question Stephen could have received.
not even LOTR, more Beatles related
Ditto, more of a Beatles fan here, but I guessed Sam as well. Paul could be Frodo, John would be Aragorn, George would be Gandalf.
The other one he had was a crap question too: "fourth line of the second part of the Silmarillion"?
What about something actually interesting, like, "Whose skeleton do Aragorn and Co. find after passing through the door under Dwimorberg?"
@@forestshepherd253 Randy Newman's.
@ajs1031 Yup, same here :)
They keep giving him these allegedly LotR or Tolkien trivia questions that have nothing to do with the actual content of the books.
I like how genuinly happy he seems when he gets it right.
That was a terrible LOTR question. More Beatles trivia really.
you could see Stephen not being happy even though he was right. But it hadn't much to do with LotR and he had to guess and that's not his style
I feel like he was pretty close at reciting the fourth line of the Silmarillion
well they wanted to make LOTR
That was really sweet he bought those cards for Stephen.
Okay, here is your Lord of the Ring Question that will determine your true level of Tolkienry! Here it comes! Ready?
"Which Lord of the Rings character from the movies is Snooki's favourite?"
Coos Oorlog
Gollum?
hmmm... Hagrid? no I mean Loial. ... :-/
"Zooming up into the sky' cannot be 'the internet, because as we all know, the Internets are a series of tubes.
Holy shit you’ve commented over 1000 times on this channel
"Yep middle earth canon. Ok, when the Beatles"- let me stop you right there boo
Thank you, LSSC, for starting to show entire guest segments.
let’s get down to the nitty gritty
let's get this show on the road
qumero numero uno!
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
@Nerdd011
Georgia, geeooooooorgiiaaaaaa
I'm a simple man, I see lord of the rings quiz asked to Stephen , I click like
The you realize it's not even a LotR question and you unlike.
Yes, it was, tangentially. The Beatles were superstars, Tolkien was still living & refused to sell the Beatles the rights. As much as I would have liked to see Beatles as LOTR, I can't say i blame Tolkien.
No it was Beatles trivia. Which guy might have played some character if some movie might have been made but wasn't has nothing to do with LotR.
it was both a Beatles and a LOTR question Kang
If that counts as LotR trivia, then so does "what is Bob Dole's favorite LotR book?" and a bunch of other irrelevant shit.
I would of have enjoyed a full HQ game of LOTR for Colbert and not just one question.
Bird's nest soup crew.
2QS that's going to haunt me for the rest of my life
Ayyyyyyyyeeeee
I got that right...still lost
Utterly guessing, eh Stephen? That is literally the only way to play that game on the later questions. The utter randomness is sometimes completely astounding...
He matches the couch perfectly
5 years later and Stephen doesn't have an app and airplanes are falling apart midair 🤣
I'VE NEVER SEEN SCOTT's LEGS BEFORE
Diesel the mystery has been solved
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Second part? Meaning Valaquenta?
Of course I had to look it up, but still wanted to post it.
"Therefore Ilúvatar gave to their vision Being, and set it amid the Void, and the Secret Fire was sent to burn at the heart of the World; and it was called Eä."
"We all live in a scary tavern inn, a scary tavern inn..."
"Calm down, Sam. We're waiting for Gandalf. We're not staying."
I was hoping for more trivia.
Scott Rogowsky is so bright...yes sometimes annoying, but great at improvisation and random knowledge.
One very simple response: Jack-in-the-box. The quiz game on Twitch. I would love, and I mean LOVE, Stephen Colbert to have his own , entirely based on LoTRs trivia.
The way Colbert said "it gets zoomed up into the sky?" 🤣🤣
Thanks for the 13 cents last night!
That was a garbage question. I was really hoping someone would ask a real difficult Lord of the Rings question that involved the lore of Middle Earth. A question like, "How was the Middle Earth Universe created?" or "Who was the only person in Middle Earth History to ever steal back a Silmaril from Morgoth?" or "How many recorded marriages have there been between Men and Elves?" or "Why do Elves and Dwarves hate each other?"
These kinds of questions are GOOD questions to ask Stephen Colbert.
But those aren't hard! 1) The song of Iluvatar, followed by the wars of the creation of Arda to actually fulfill the vision once the Ainur descended. 2) Beren 3) 3. Beren x Luthien, Earendil x Elwing, Arwen x Aragorn, 4) a fairly petty dispute over a piece of jewelry according to the Hobbit, which was augmented according to the Silmarillion by confirming that jewel was a Silmaril.
Adam Bierstedt yeah... They aren't hard for a select few people like you and me....
@@adambierstedt920 3), you forgot Tuor and Idril
Trivia is at 5:05
The neatly trimmed beard and the studio makeup makes him look a tinsy bit like a ventriloquist dummy.
He wears a TON of eyeliner
5:01 they actually ask him LOTR trivia
Well - not really, was more Beatles trivia.
Or 5:50 . The end, of course. And yeah, way more Beatles related. 😁
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Thanks
not all heroes wear capes
No wonder Tolkien nixed it.. Ringo as the the most important character? RINGO?
Meh, they'd probably just dub in another artist for the hard parts.
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Sméagol was the most important character.
Hey it's that hotty Scotty! Love how you're blowing up, getting the good gigs, went to the Super Bowl. Congrats man!!!
LOTR Trivia At 4:59
2:35 wrong answer. Santos Dumont made the first self propelling plane.
The wrong brothers built a sling shot plane.
Helgali ora ora, temos um BR na plateia kkk
You’re right, though, o mérito é nosso 😬
LOTR questions are at 5:39.
This guy sounds insane
dude sounds like he has been shoveling cocaine for weeks
@@jwb4291
Lol that's the first thing I thought when I saw him walk out.
@@jwb4291 yeah, seems like a total legend
Scott!!! Loved you threw in an allen ginsberg howl reference.
I clicked on this because of the LOTR trivia, right away, not even knowing who the guest was and originally not caring. But hey, that's the guy from HQ Trivia, that was a nice surprise (I've played only a few times so the name didn't really stick but I always liked him).
3:25 that Ginsberg reference, tho. so smooth, and nobody in the audience seemed to even notice.
The QUIZDADY him self!!
wow I can't believe HQ is that big. Pretty fascinating to see Scott on the show. And yeah, I've never won once. Only got to the last question once too. god damn american trivia
Came for the trivia. Stayed for the They Might Be Giants reference! Wow! Was not expecting that.
If you all are expecting a really die-hard Silmarillion question like ‘Name all of the Valar’. Really bad example (sorry). Then no, Scott just asks Stephen about The Lord of the Rings being casted with the stars as the Beatles.
What's up H-Cuties
That card was probably the consolation prize too!
Is it me or is Stephen being kind of rude to the guy?
It was funny up until the "rinky-dink" 5k remark. That was a little bit cruel.
Thank you! I was thinking the same thing!
Yeah I thought so too, and he said something about how more people join but the prize stays the same but the prize used to be 250 dollars and moves up all the time sooo....
Why so mean Stephen? Come on.. be cool with ur guests.. we love u n we notice when things r off...
it's just you guys.
Our boy Scott is moving up in the world!
Is he the guy who rides the subway with these fictitious books with the interesting titles?
tagosadilim yes it is
0:52 ...thought of this concept several years ago... but the application was intended for instrumentalists to be able to play together from different places around the world in real time... 1:47
That was a refreshing interview :) Nice guy.
Loved the Ginsberg reference.
Scott Rogowsky is a REAL PERSON?!
"serving dada" sounds like a euphemism for something
LETS GET DOWN TO THE NITTY GRITTY, LETS GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD
"Of old they were called in song Firinno, Olórin, and Aiwendil, but in the lore of the Eldar that is lost these names were changed, and they were called Mithrandir, Wisest of the Maiar; Olórin, who was a lover of the Eldar that remained, and Irmo in Valinor, Este in the land of Aman, and many other names; Aiwendil, the bird-lover, who was also a friend of the birds." "Valaquenta" of "The Silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Stephen...is a little rude in the interview I feel
@Kristian Berg Doesn't give him a reason to he rude. lol
The only time I watch these clips.
"I did shehecheyanu in the green room" lmaoooo
The first section of The Silmarillion (not counting the foreward) is Ainulindale (the Music of the Ainur), so the second must be Valaquenta (the Powers of the World).
There's something about this guy that my gut says "Nope."
LOL We are like the Wright brothers - "We are changing the world with this live streaming mobile game" rofl
The real innovation that changed the world is the internet or cell phones, not some shitty triva game.
I mean... This guy has heard of online gaming right? "Live streaming" interactive games have been around for like 20 years.
Shit, anyone remember 1 Vs 100 on Xbox Live? It was a live game with a host and everything.
I mean with the crazy stuff this guy is saying, it's almost like he could be a comedian.
Gotta love Scott
John was Gollum and Paul Frodo. How befitting. 😂
4:58 trivia begins
lets get down to the nitty gritty quemero número uno
I'm sure someone's CGI'ing up a Beatles - Lord of the Rings movie as I type this. Can't wait to see it.
03:24 love the reference to the '95 movie Hackers... in case anyone was wondering when he said, "I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed..." is a quote from the poem, Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Though in Hackers I think they started with "angelheaded hipsters"... either way, its a cool thing to quote Ginsberg on the Late Show.
Like the Wright brothers? Are they catapulting the questions? I'd like to watch _that._
It’s been five years and Colbert doesn’t have an app
Crazy to think an app got him here, congrats to him and the team
Wow... it's my first time seeing Scott outside of a green screen while breaking the 4th wall. lol
Came for the lotr trivia, stayed for the tmbg reference
Lol I don’t think my hometown of Kitty Hawk has ever been mentioned on a late night show. 😂
Paul McCartney must be raging they didn't get that deal over the line.
I feel kind of bad because the tech is pretty awesome. You can have multiple people in a room playing it and they’ll all be synced up. The live answers, all of that is pretty impressive.
The LOTR trivia was actually about the Beatles? What a huge reason to never play this game. Thanks for the heads up.
Creator's Remorse isn't it trivia for both LOTR and the Beatles
It's more about the Beatles than anything else. It's like asking - "Which Chinese outlet sells LOTR knock-offs on 34th street?" ... just because the words LOTR were thrown in doesn't make it about LOTR.
5:33 Stephen's wheels turning LOL
I love that Allen Ginsberg reference
This dude looks to Steven Colbert what Borat looks to Sacha Baron Cohen.
Well, Facebook just launched a gameshow platform to compete with HQ, so Scott might end up moving to LA after all
You rich bastard! Lol 1:24
loved the ginsberg reference
Wow. On point
Smooth Allen Ginsberg reference there Rogowsky
I get that the guest is saying some weird things but Stephen could be a little less obnoxious and patronizing
#FreeScott
We already had this show a few years ago in germany... it got canceled very fast
Tom Bombadil
You can skip the first 5 min.
Ringo is definitely a Sam Hahaha!
2:46 the guy touches him and Stephen wipes his sleeve. Baha!
I've read almost everything Tolkien ever wrote, but all I can see is that suit blending into the couch... 😵😵😵