D: A magic one to meet a giant, but muddled, and a dwarf’s property?
ITHILIEN: Clematis, myrtle, irises, anemones and thyme grow here.
(purple)
FRUIT (ORANGES): They’re discoloured, in Errantry – but use a generic term.
(yellow)
FINDUILAS'S CLOAK: A gift to a lady in convalescence.
(blue)
E: Used for a sea-lover’s arrows – but prepared like a sheep?
RAIN-CURTAIN: It seems to jump state to shining glass, both in a dream and a real, final vision.
(silver)
EGLANTINE: At mete wel y-taught was she with-alle. She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle.
(pink)
NIPHREDIL: A bloom to greet a princess.
(white)
THINGOL: Dull of raiment, and a lord of dull people? Hardly!
(grey)
SIGNATURES: Seven required on Shire wills.
(red)
HOLDWINE'S SCAR: A mark left by orcish first-aid.
(brown)
AMETHYST: A Hornblower, and a Wesleyan? But not strange, we hear.
(mauve)
DWIMORDENE: Land a confused broad around a London suburb, via the bank?
(golden)
EMERALD: It shines upon a mariner’s breast.
(green)
SKIN: Frodo’s - aflame? In a tower?
(scarlet)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kath
And then this...
...is from the Canterbury Tales and apparently refers to Eglantine (a nun). The only Eglantine I know is the one Angela Lansbury plays in Bedknobs and Broomsticks but I'm going to assume that is it also a colour?!
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More than a nun! (In a sense).
A Prioress!
'And she was cleped Madam Eglantyne,' from the same part of the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. I guess it would be the name she chose upon taking the veil, and as it's a rose, it goes with the other aspects of her that Chaucer presents as being pretty, flirtatious and self-indulgent rather than holy, such as having a handsome wimple, immaculate table manners (the quotation I used shows a part of these), and feeding dainty food to her little dog (when her spending should have been focused on the poor).
Eglantine Took, (née Banks), is Pippin's mother.
Eglantine is a wild rose, and they are (or can be) PINK.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kath
Is the S skin? From when 'it looked to Sam as if he was clothed in flame' in the tower of Cirith Ungol?
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Indeed - the precise shade of red that Tolkien uses being
scarlet.
Two clues left to solve ... each linked to a different shade/colour.
