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Originally Posted by mormegil
I guess the Ring Bearers.
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As you said, it's not.
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Originally Posted by Urwen
Elfs?
Or maybe Orcs...it all fits, except maybe the third line...but it only has one letter that is the same, not two.
Or maybe cats, though I don't know how cats can hold anyone..
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No to any of those.
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Originally Posted by mormegil
At the first we stood high on the slopes,
-No real idea where to start here except that there is a 'we' so it's clearly multiple individuals or things.
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Correct, at least in that line.
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Originally Posted by mormegil
Watching waiting as the wanderer climbed.
-Wanderer makes me think of Gandalf or Aragorn but it could be a host of people from the Silmarillion
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This reference is to a work even older than the first
Silmarillion.
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Originally Posted by mormegil
One of us watched the dance in the dark,
-I can't recall if there's a 'dance' with Gollum or another in the dark, so it could mean combat. This makes me think of Gandalf fighting the Balrog
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The dance is literal, and doesn't involve Gollum, Gandalf, or Balrogs.
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Originally Posted by mormegil
Held the haggard hero lest he fall.
-First thought is Samwise holding Frodo, but in looking at previous I can make the argument of Gandalf again, however it's 'we' not I...so?
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None of those.
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Originally Posted by mormegil
And one strode swift through gentle hills,
-No real clue on this one
Great gait drawing the gaze of passer-by.
-Same, no idea
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This one may not actually have existed; we only hear about it second-hand, though the Fellowship member speaking about it certainly believed it.
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Originally Posted by mormegil
But at the last we fell, frail and weak:
-This one gives me pause, because what other plural failed other than all the ringbearers which it isn't that answer? The 9 kings of old failed and became wraiths...but the other clues don't hold up to that.
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I'm being a bit cheeky with this couplet. I will also note that I didn't say
failed, and
fell is more literal than you'd think.
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Originally Posted by mormegil
The master may have mourned us, if he learned.
-This one, led me first to think of Frodo and Gollum but I think there's more to it. The Master ring is the only other thing that makes sense. If it failed after the master wouldn't have learned it makes me think that maybe it's....
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"If" is me speaking; I don't know if the master heard what happened to the "speakers" (the timeline isn't entirely clear to me), but he would definitely have mourned.
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Originally Posted by mormegil
The 3 elven rings?
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It is not.
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Originally Posted by Urwen
It can't be those, unless I misinterpreted Huey entirely and 'right length' doesn't mean a number of letters...
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You're correct: the answer is a three-letter word, + "s" for the plural.
None of the couplets are spoken by the same individuals, and only the "speaker" in the third couplet might have actually been able to speak. If it existed.
hS