1. Three directions to hills
2. One of those mixed in no ion star here
3.
ORODRUIN Ring's endpoint
4.
RANA Numenorian port without men - O! - receives one wanderer.
5.
BERYL Small fruit switches direction in stone.
Very much correct! I'm not too certain about beryl in our modern world, but in ME is is an elf-stone, one of which Strider found when he went to scout the bridge - a message from Glorfindel.
As for the remaining 2 clues, both have been attempted in the right direction, just not taken far enough.
