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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
Is 13 TREES - Telperion and Laurelin, 'replaced' once to my knowledge by unmagical versions - were they 'replaced' again? (Very weighty inverted commas).
I know we've had TREE already, but there could be a cunning plan to have another, unexpected, arboreous clue! 
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It is not, but you're sort of in the right concept-space. How were the Two Trees replaced?
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
More treeishness:
2. - Many warriors had this; 3/4 is what there are 3/4 of
HELM. 75% of warriors had one.
3/4 of HELM is ELM.
3/4 of the Ents in the battle at Helm's Deep were spirits who had taken the bodies of ELMS as opposed to other trees.
I tried ….
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o.O Er... no. Though you're entirely right that the first 3/4 indicates that the clause is providing three quarters of the word for you.
I struggled a bit with this one; if it's any help, I
wanted to name Feanor and Turin as relevant warriors, but wasn't sure they were really useful.
hS