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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
Rage and Age?
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Spot on!
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
(Not counting all the Ages before the Two Trees in Valinor, of course!)
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I'm pretty sure I remember Tolkien asserting that the Ages of the World were getting shorter, which doesn't make sense with the tiny First Age (of the Sun). Given how consistent he was with that First, I think he saw everything up to the fall of Beleriand as the First Age (the Age of Melkor, if you like).
WORLD - What they sang about (in the vernacular)
RAGE - Many warriors had this; 3/4 is what there are 3/4 of
IRON - What manner of hell is this?
TREE - A lineage stretching from Tirion to Minas Tirith.
TONGUE - What we speak, and what by
EAST - Gondorians do not speak of its breath.
NAME - Everyone has one (or two... or more!)
STARLIGHT - What the first children saw by
YOKE - Between two horses, but write otherwise and it's golden treasure
MOUTH - Sauron has one of these; unlike most, he can send his away
BOOK - By another title, Sauron has six of these
ORE - A heart, a rise, a miner's prize
LAMP - Two once died, to be replaced by two and two again
SOUTH - Where the stars are strange
And that's that! The password goes to
Urwen, I believe.
Do you want me to tell you the theme, or do you want to try and figure it out?
hS