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Old 05-20-2020, 09:59 AM   #9681
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MERRY?

He wrote 'Herblore of the Shire.'

I think I said 'merry' in the Bombadil quotation. 'Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow.'
Correct (and yes you did).

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Could 4 be KUDUK, Hobbitish for hobbit? Sounds a bit like 'cute duck' with the T sound missing from the heart of it.
Correct.

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Looking at those letters .....

... is the password SMOKING?
Yep! Very nicely done.

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In which case,

6. NICOTINE or NICOTIANA. Tolkien said the hobbits' pipeweed was probably a variant of this.
NICOTINA, specifically, as in 'Nic or Tina'. So yep.

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So I think the last one must be GALENAS, but let me work backwards and find out why ....

Well, 'Fourth Book of Mormon' in Google brings up GENESIS as a possible answer if that were a crossword clue. I was thinking of that fairly recent musical, although I haven't seen it.

Could GAL be the genderbend element, from, er ... GEN(T)???
Okay, you've got the right answer, at least... the fourth book in The Book of Mormon (the book, not the musical) is called Enos; genderbent, he would be Gal Enos. "O, no - a" makes the correction.

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1. Maybe SOUTHERN STAR? That's a brand of pipeweed from the Shire. Aragorn's new home us in the south of Middle-earth, in Minas Tirith, and seven stars are an emblem of Numenor?
Correct answer, as is the 'home' element. Aragorn presumably wore the Star of the Dunedain at some point (plus of course the Star of Elendil, though I don't think that was a badge).

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3. OLD TOBY. OLD = ancient, TOB(LERONE) is chocolate shaped as joined together prisms and Y ends the word 'lightly.'
And this is spot on.

SOUTHERN STAR - Aragorn's badge in his new home, a noted kind.
MERRY - The happy author.
OLD TOBY - Ancient, begin a prism of chocolate but end lightly, respected.
KUDUK - In the original, sounds like a cute duck with no heart.
5. I - Peruvian students' union? Only in the south!
NICOTINA - Nicole or Christina? Say it shortly noR in Latin.
GALENAS - In Gondor, genderbend the fourth Book of Mormon. Oh no, ahh!

Well, at least you didn't quite one-shot the puzzle...!

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