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Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-21-2005 03:09 PM

A well known piece of Hobbit wisdom...
 
Barehanding hot lanterns will burn you, use a Handl’ for High Lite

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-21-2005 10:48 PM

Eh, Ms. Sophia.
 
Harding of the Hill does not begin with G,which was the last letter of the previous puzzle. ;)

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-22-2005 12:24 AM

This thread is CURSED!
 
Well, you solved my anagram, such as it was....

I have such horrible trouble on this thread! :o

*bows and backs slowly away from the cursed thread*

Sophia

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-22-2005 12:43 AM

That's OK, Ms. Sophia.
 
Please don't leave the thread. We're already few as it is.

Gimli az ark.

Easy. :cool:

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-22-2005 01:03 AM

Well then, let's give it another go, shall we?
 
I believe it's Gamil Zirak, the master of Telchar.

Why all the Ms.-ing? Makes me feel like a grandmother and I'm only 22! :p

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-23-2005 10:01 PM

Allrighty then.
 
I'll drop the Ms.- part. I forgot I'm more than fifteen thousand years old. :smokin:

Your turn again. Confront the ancient curse, and you will be free of it. Take it from someone who knows. ;)

(Not me, of course! I asked Túrin, though. :D)

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-24-2005 03:36 AM

Perhaps I've done it right this time...
 
When asked why he continued fighting orcs after the third or fourth shot to the chest, Boromir replied:

War fan, okie?

Fingolfin II 01-24-2005 04:14 AM

Noble beasts.....
 
Kine of Araw.

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-24-2005 04:12 PM

Goodness you're quick. ;)
 
Proceed.

Fingolfin II 01-24-2005 06:59 PM

Cheers,

Heather swill.

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-24-2005 09:36 PM

And we get:
 
Weather Hills. :cool:

Fingolfin II 01-24-2005 10:38 PM

Nilpo has got it!

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-24-2005 10:43 PM

"Nilpo" sounds . . . elephantish.
 
I know nerds rant ECGs.

Yes, they actually do. I don't know why, though.

Fingolfin II 01-24-2005 11:22 PM

Hmm.......maybe I'll stick to Nil. Or 'paurion. Anyway,

Stewards' Reckoning

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-24-2005 11:30 PM

My tongue ain't working.
 
So I'll let my hand speak.

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Fingolfin II 01-25-2005 12:19 AM

Cheers. Unfortunately my computer (or my eyes) are on the blink and all I can see is one colour on the keyboard, including-

My green alt.

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-25-2005 02:22 AM

Goodness!
 
I suspect that Grima would try to blame it on old

Greymantle

Fingolfin II 01-25-2005 04:33 AM

I suspect that you're right :).

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-25-2005 04:24 PM

The drunken ravings of a medieval minstrel:

O Tune the Nile off to China!

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-25-2005 09:29 PM

Must be the same one who sung
 
Ecthelion of the Fountain had a very shiny nose. ;)

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-25-2005 10:33 PM

What an interesting picture... Rudolph the Balrog-Slayer.

You may proceed.

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-25-2005 10:40 PM

Thanks!
 
I once saw a poem with this correction:

Nori: Line Nine

That was the lamest one yet.

You mean not all are equally lame?

Fingolfin II 01-25-2005 11:11 PM

Nienor Niniel.

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-25-2005 11:25 PM

Wow.
 
So it is.

Your thread! :)

Fingolfin II 01-25-2005 11:42 PM

Cheers.

What Sam said about Mrs Maggot's eggs: 'All baad.'

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-25-2005 11:50 PM

Sounds more like what a herd of sheep said about
 
Labadal.

Fingolfin II 01-26-2005 01:58 AM

Hmm....how come I didn't think of that pun?
 
The floor is yours :).

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-27-2005 06:38 PM

Thanks muchly
 
Cheer for injured (intoxicated? :eek: ) deity:

Aleing Allah--A Cry!

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-27-2005 07:34 PM

"Blasphemy!"
 
Lalia Clayhanger cried.

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-27-2005 07:47 PM

heehee
 
Of course she did.

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-27-2005 08:23 PM

Well, then.
 
Aulë once offered to make:

Tinee sign for Vali.

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-28-2005 04:14 PM

Vali? More like chasm!
 
The signs must have read "Watch your step! Ravines of Teiglin!"

Nilpaurion Felagund 01-28-2005 08:51 PM

This is Alice Holly, posting for NF.
 
You really are a mind-reader. :)

You may continue with the next puzzle.

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 01-28-2005 09:29 PM

Alice, huh? Related to Tuor are we?
 
Pleased to make your acquaintance. ;)

Moving on:

How Scandanavian kidnappings get started: Hag hug Finn tot

Sophia

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 02-02-2005 01:57 AM

*nudges*
 
Don't want this to fall off the page. Anybody?

Nilpaurion Felagund 02-02-2005 07:26 PM

Ummm . . .
 
Hintses we need. Puzzle is too coplim . . . comli . . . colmip . . . hard!

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 02-02-2005 07:33 PM

Clever Nilp...
 
A hint I shall provide.

The answer is found in LOTR... more specifically it is found in a song.

:cool:

Sophia

piosenniel 02-05-2005 03:17 AM

Night of Naught

The darkness of the Shadowy Seas

:cool:

. . . Beneath the Moon and under star
he wandered far from northern strands,
bewildered on enchanted ways
beyond the days of mortal lands.
From gnashing of the Narrow Ice
where shadow lies on frozen hills,
from nether heats and burning waste
he turned in haste, and roving still
on starless waters far astray
at last he came to Night of Naught,
and passed, and never sight he saw
of shining shore nor light he sought . . .


--- from "Song of Eärendil"

Sophia the Thunder Mistress 02-05-2005 04:29 AM

That's the one Pio!
 
I'm flattered to see you here, since you seem only to show up when the anagram is sufficiently difficult. :)

The thread is yours.

Sophia

piosenniel 02-06-2005 09:48 PM

What shall we eat, says one Arthurian attercop to another . . .

Th' Pict or monk?


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