“Oo, Those Awful Orcs” - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 10: Bonus 18

Description acceptable. This review claims that, in its “hypertrophic” subject, “the hero has no serious temptations; is lured by no insidious enchantments, perplexed by few problems.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name or describe this infamous review that speculates the British have a “lifelong appetite for juvenile trash.” This review disparages the more positive reaction of W. H. Auden.

ANSWER: “Oo, Those Awful Orcs” [or Edmund Wilson’s review of The Lord of the Rings; accept descriptions of Edmund Wilson’s takedown of J. R. R. Tolkien]

[10e] A hostile essay by Michael Moorcock compares Tolkien’s “conservative” vision to the world of this protagonist of another author’s stories. This trouserless title character lives in the Hundred Acre Wood.

ANSWER: Winnie-the-Pooh [or Pooh Bear; or Edward Bear; accept “Epic Pooh”] (A. A. Milne created Pooh.)

[10m] Tom Shippey’s The Road to Middle Earth bolstered Tolkien’s reputation by situating his fiction in this text-based discipline. Paul de Man wrote of a “return to” this discipline, of which Tolkien was a professor.

ANSWER: philology [accept philologist; accept “Return to Philology”; prompt on comparative linguistics; prompt on historical linguistics]

<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-10

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
25	16.00	100%	60%	0%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	Indiana	10	10	20	EM
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Tennessee A	10	0	10	E
BHSU	1000000 Delinquents	10	10	20	EM
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	20	EM
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Stanford B	10	10	20	EM
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	10	0	10	E
Habitat 67	Shipping Down from Ballston	10	0	10	E
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	10	10	20	EM
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	10	10	20	EM
Maybe Ever	Lex	10	10	20	EM
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	Execute Order 6 7	10	10	20	EM
No Country for Old Quizzers	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	10	0	10	E
Noah Sheidlower	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	10	20	EM
Northwestern	Invective Against Swans	10	0	10	E
Not Old! (Old)	Berkeley B	10	10	20	EM
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Chicago !A	10	0	10	E
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	You Don't Have the Cards	10	10	20	EM
Team 7	Team 8	10	0	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	0	10	E
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	10	0	10	E
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	WashU	10	10	20	EM
Untitled Keyal Team	NYU A	10	10	20	EM
Vacuous Tortoise	Dour Straits	10	10	20	EM
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	10	0	10	E
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	[Redacted]	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%