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Head and tail of twenty-six return outlandish moon before one listens to strange bloody scene

Hello? oh... oh... oh...

Anyone here? ere... ere... ere...

*listens mournfully to the echo bouncing off the empty place*

Azanulbizar maybe? Spooky you posting as I pondered or were you stalking?... AZ head and tail of alphabet, anul is luna (forn for Moon) reversed then bizar is homophonous with bizarre and in all the sight of a battle?

Bingo! :D

It was a coincidence. Chance has brought us here, if chance you call it... :)

I was stumped for a while because at first I thought it was the AZ which was reversed so I was puzzling over the limited things beginning with ZA..:rolleyes: hmm and htat means I need to have a think... aiee

Queen's grandson is, I hear, but a page who manned the barricade.

A bit sneaky but I think it is ok......

Sneaky indeed. The only name I have so far is Merry - who manned the barricade that the hobbits put up and whose name sounds like Queen Mary's. But the grandson us totally off, and it's no crisp solution...

I think you are doing quite well. Wrong but quite well. I won't give you a clue yet because you aren't way off and when you get one of the elements I think it will take you instantly to the right person. which may be a clue in itself!

Do you need a bijou hint-ette?

I have had precious little time last week, and whatever results my queen searches gave me did not really fit. I'll work on it. I guess a hint would speed up the process...

I hear does not relate to the Queen's grandson, but to the sneaky middle element. Otherwise it is probably more straight forward than you think.

Hmm... Does it somehow translate to Harry Goatleaf? :confused: I can't explain the goat no matter how much I try.

It is . Harry is the Queen's grandson .... and page is a leaf....and surely Galadriel my sweet cub you remember about bloomers and flowers....:D

Oh! Good.

Yeah, I had the reasons for Harry and Leaf, but I still can't explain how you get "goat" from "but a". :rolleyes: Do enlighten me please, MummieMith! :)

I'll get a clue up before I go to sleep today.

Ohhhhhhhh welll remember how a bloomer is something that blooms ie a flower, and a flower something that flows so a river well but a sounds like butter and is something than butts....so a goat.

Oh I get it now!

Not only am I horrible at sounds-like guessing, but I'm also on the wrong side of the pond.

That's a nice one, Mith. A really nice one. :)



Place one in a pointless dance with deceased parent


This one should be fairly easy.

It isn't. Stilll puzzling.

Ok, I have no idea what I wrote up there. I think I remember the answer, but then it doesn't exactly match the question. The question is missing a part. *headdesk* Or I just can't remember the answer. *facepalm* But I don't think I could have used this question for anything else, really.

Well, should have been something like

Note to place one in a pointless dance with deceased parent

Hmm originally I thought the straight cle was place or deceased parent ~ and there are so many in ME but now I am not so sure. Dancing isn't my strongest suit but gather that when the right one is foundit has to lose N S W or E and gain an I? Hmm da capo...

Shot in the dark, Drogo?

No, not him.

Hint: the note is from the do-re-mi system.

Ah well I never learnt solfege bot I did watch the sound of music over Christmas. ?.pondering...

Ooooh is it Miriel? MI a name I call myseld, then a reel ia a dancr and you switch one -I- for an e forveast you get the most significant deceased parent innthe legendarium.

That's the one. Just about the only remarkable thing she's done in her life is give birth to Feanor, and then caused trouble by not coming back from the dead... ;)

She sewed nicely. Oh dear now I have to think of something.

Dear signora arranged brittle fragment to form heartless feature.

Caradhras

Cara is roughly Italian for 'dear' and the rest is an anagram of shard, the whole being heartlessly cruel.

Yes cara is Italian for dear when referencing a woman hence signora. So over to you Squatter.:cool:

It's been a while, but maybe I can still remember how to do this.

Climb with firearm against fishy pitch, delivering great city

I have no idea. Gundabad? Because it has "gun" in it and is the capital city of the goblins?

That's most of the answer. Are you sure you can't have a stab at guessing how I'm getting there?

Mount Gundabad? Mount means climb, gun is firearm, and I still don't know the rest of it.

A-Bad
A is a note
bad is fishy

But what of the D? You get dabad. I tried AD and DA, as well as scrambles of the whole thing, but I didn't come up with anything that made sense.

I'm wondering if there's
a specific clue about the D.

climb: Mount
Fire Arm: Gun
Fishy Pitch: Abad
great city: goblin city

I think the d sort of falls into place with the context of the rest
Great work on this one G55 :) I only guessed at the reasoning for the end bit so I hope it's right because Your answer makes sense with it.

Edit: Actually Fire Arm against fishy pitch fired upon; like Gunned? phoneticaly gund?

Fishy pitch is dab ad - a type of fish and a sales pitch. I was thinking of changing it to "fishy notice", but that would probably not have helped much. Anyway, all such mucking about aside, Galadriel has the floor.

Thanks, Squatter. Hopefully this one isn't too muddled.


Green land exiled lady in papers after messed up signal

Here's my guess:

Dell = a green land
A messed up signal = a code?
There was a code machine called the Enigma, and Elgar wrote the Enigma Variations. There is no apparent link between the machine and the composer but one of the Variations was called Nimrod.

So could the exiled lady be Nimrodel?

Even if right it still leaves me wondering about "in papers"...

No, not her.

The straight clue is either at the beginning or at the end. And what you said about the code is waaaaaaay too complicated and obscure. It's far simpler than that.

Messed up probably indicates an anagram and I suspect grren land is the s traight clue. But I keep thinking of Ossiriand which doesn't work...hmmm ponders