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Originally Posted by Galadriel55
6 - perhaps TOWER, two...er?
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Yep! I was confused, so you should be too.
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
GAMBITS for the password?
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Correct! Very much just 'a word that fit the answers', I'm afraid.
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
4. BALROG.
BAL(L) + (E)ROG (Al Gore, a former Vice-President).
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Entirely right. (As a Maia, a balrog is still an angel!)
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
And I think 2 must be ABDICATION. AB(BA) + DICTION with an A in it but otherwise not mixed - so perhaps it's ABBA that's slightly mixed, before shortening.
King Edward abdicated and became a Duke.
I suppose Aragorn and many other Numenorean kings abdicated, too.
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And so is this. AB(B)A + diction, for the Duke of Windsor aka Edward VIII.
The abdication referred to here is not connected to a death (unlike, say, Aragorn's).
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
5. IMLACH? Has I'M and CA(T) and most of LOCH. Not sure about 'owe yourself a consonant,' though.
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I'm = I am, briefly; the cat is not brief, and the loch is not LOCH. This one is an English noun, derived from an adjective.
GROND - Not a ewe's namesake, the ground is missing you.
ABDICATION - A short Swedish band's slightly mixed diction, like Duke Edward.
MORGOTH - The darkest is mixed up - are Batman's city misspelled slightly?
BALROG - Forward the sphere, backward the VP, chop out the heart and find the angel.
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I - I am briefly a cat, you owe yourself a consonant, in the loch, quick!
TOWER - Second confused digit is confusing up here.
SAURON - A pair of vowels runs in confusion, comes second.
One to go! I'd love to know if anyone can spot the theme; this is a closed set, with only one debatable item excluded.
hS