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Originally Posted by Urwen
I had hoped this would be solved today for ~reasons~... *disappointed*
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I mean, it's Christmas Day, you'll be lucky to get anyone on at all...
... but I did Christmas on the 23rd, so:
#7: I looked at 'endegar' (END + RAGE backwards), and the Gateway suggested
ENDERI... which is END + IRE. They're the intercalary days of the Elven/Numenorean calendar.
So immediately we're looking at days and seasons, and possibly just at intercalary days. Let's have a looksee...
#3 suggests
RINGDAY (band + time), which is indeed a Telcontarian feast-day (enjoy it!). Could be CORMARE instead.
#6: 'shortly, like this usually is' suggests one of the leap-months. Since the Enderi have already been used...
LITHE is lit+he, and is not only usually 3 days rather than 4, but also short for 'Lithedays'.
__R__LE... okay, I have a theory, let's test it.
... yep. #4:
YESTARE is 'ye (olde) stare', and is the first intercalary day in the New Reckoning. That means I'm going to guess the password as:
FORYULE, a spelling of the Shire name for December (roughly).
I'm not sure about the other three... #5 should logically be
URIME or
URUI, as the only calendar word starting with U (it's August), but I can't make it fit the clue.
Still, at least I've tried! A very fine Yule to all.
hS