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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
MERRY?
He wrote 'Herblore of the Shire.'
I think I said 'merry' in the Bombadil quotation. 'Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow.'
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Correct (and yes you did).
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
Could 4 be KUDUK, Hobbitish for hobbit? Sounds a bit like 'cute duck' with the T sound missing from the heart of it.
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Correct.
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
Looking at those letters .....
... is the password SMOKING?
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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.
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NICOTINA, specifically, as in 'Nic or Tina'. So yep.
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
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)???
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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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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
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?
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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.'
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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...!
hS