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Pervinca Took · 11-21-2022, 09:18 AM

5. IMPETUOUSNESS?

NESS gives us the loch, (I hope - there are an awful lot of Scottish lochs!)

Ah, cat is PET, perhaps?

U You
O Owe
US Yourself - maybe literally, in text language, or You plus N for a consonant?

(I tried 'impatience' first).

GAMBITS are STRATEGIES, I believe, but sort of 'opening' strategies, which are often a bit of a gamble?

Hang on ...

Morgoth was Eru's gambit - and a risky one. And the Valar's, when they gave him a second chance?

Sauron was the Valar's - a second chance again?

Grond was Sauron's gambit?

Isengard (Tower) was Saruman's?

Impetuousness - Sauron's, counted on by Gandalf?

Abdication - not sure, if it isn't a Numenorean lying on his death bed. I think there are people in thd annals who 'refused the sceptre,' but you'd have had to accept it in the first place to abdicate, I think.

Balrog - Feanor's?

I'm sure GAMBIT was a late 70s/early 80s game show. It was also a film starring a very acrobatic Shirley MacLaine, (upside down, stealing a diamond, 'The Wrong Trousers' style, IIRC!)

(Edward VIII was not the first Duke Edward on Wikipedia - I went up a blind alley until it was clear it was about abdication - not used to hearing the former Duke of Windsor called that!)

11-21-2022, 09:18 AM	#12237
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	5. IMPETUOUSNESS? NESS gives us the loch, (I hope - there are an awful lot of Scottish lochs!) Ah, cat is PET, perhaps? U You O Owe US Yourself - maybe literally, in text language, or You plus N for a consonant? (I tried 'impatience' first). GAMBITS are STRATEGIES, I believe, but sort of 'opening' strategies, which are often a bit of a gamble? Hang on ... Morgoth was Eru's gambit - and a risky one. And the Valar's, when they gave him a second chance? Sauron was the Valar's - a second chance again? Grond was Sauron's gambit? Isengard (Tower) was Saruman's? Impetuousness - Sauron's, counted on by Gandalf? Abdication - not sure, if it isn't a Numenorean lying on his death bed. I think there are people in thd annals who 'refused the sceptre,' but you'd have had to accept it in the first place to abdicate, I think. Balrog - Feanor's? I'm sure GAMBIT was a late 70s/early 80s game show. It was also a film starring a very acrobatic Shirley MacLaine, (upside down, stealing a diamond, 'The Wrong Trousers' style, IIRC!) (Edward VIII was not the first Duke Edward on Wikipedia - I went up a blind alley until it was clear it was about abdication - not used to hearing the former Duke of Windsor called that!) __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 11-22-2022 at 08:07 AM.