[Galadriel55]

I have been working long, and not without
a good result, which I was keen to share
with you, my Password fellows. Yes, the clues
did not with scarlet mark the letters first,
but they were good clues, and I promise you
the password was not worse off for some shifts -
quite an enjoyable affair. Alas!
A sudden gust of wind had blown across
my writing desk - or maybe I just sneezed,
but, ‘f it’s the case, it was a mighty sneeze! -
and all the notes to all the clues were swept
in utter disarray from desk to floor.
From this horrific mess you must remake
of order semblance, and before you solve
the clues, you must assemble them yourselves
in proper order. Know, that every clue
contains two halves, two terms which must be joined
to see the hint in full, and only then,
together, they will point you in the way
of the solution to the clue, which lies
in what they have in common. Now, the clues
are six in total, making that twelve halves.
So let us see, what have we in this mix?


A girl and boy with ire danced around, but who is this? A girl… and yet a boy?

An evil elbow, in confusion’s rush, has lost its finish, hearing itself shushed.

Decrepit elder, senior, but mark: this one’s not senile, nor yet weak.

And yet another senior we see: mature, aged, venerable, elderly.

Among them giants, dragons fire-breathing, but also very ordinary beasts. Their owner is not haggard - or is he?

An adjective which means to say “debarred”...

...And yet another, to describe a whacker.

Hold fast: a tooth, lupine - all with an insect.

Erased? Not quite, but close enough to see.

I cannot say his name, but you’ll know him.

A royal hero from the other side exchanged directions for a single note, as well as half a dozen extra feet.

The other other side’s best friend, howbeit, took note, and more than one direction took - alas, becoming evil in the process.


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To clarify the instructions to this madness: each “halfling” clue describes a word or concept, like normal password clues would. Those come in pairs, and once you match them up I will put them in the right position on the password itself. You use the pairs to find a single word, and that word is the final answer to the clue and will contain the password letter. The red letters are not always at the start of the word. The answers to the clues may be unusual in more than one way, but I have made no effort to try to make them tricky - they should be fairly straightforward to compensate for all the rest.


With that, I wish you all the best of luck
in reconstructing concepts from this mess.
But why the verse? The inspiration came
from one work, titled “Script of Leithian” -
this really has no bearing on the clues
except to make more difficult my life,
for, as the best of playwrights will decree:
iambic your pentameter must be.