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1. Sarn Athrad?
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I'll also go ahead and throw Maeglin for 2, because 'traitor'.
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Are not right, but,
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Or maybe Mim, if the clues 1 and 2 are a pair.
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has the correct traitor (but is not the answer).
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So I also read the first clue as likely relating to Mim. What other cursed hoards are there? There is the Doriath loot, but I don't think there's the last of a line involved. Smaug was the last great dragon, but I don't think his hoard was specifically cursed, no one laid a curse on it. I thought that Mim was the only one who fit the bill.
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As far as I know, he is.
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And therefore where would be in NARGOTHROND, while the second would be at AMON RUDH.
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These are the right locations, but not the right names.
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If 4 is a reference to Thingol's death by greedy / insulted Dwarves, then in DORIATH.
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That's the reference, but not where his death was
plotted.
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5 sounds like a reference to 4, but this really doesn't sound like Thingol. What it does sound like is the Dwarves of BELEGOST bearing away their fallen kind Azaghal during the Nirnaeth.
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Correct location (well done!), but again the wrong name.
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There is very much a Dwarven flavour to this, I think. I thought 3 would be DURIN, but I can't find mention of mist on his breath in Gimli's Durin song, and besides it doesn't have enough letters.
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Durin is the eldest here, but is not the answer.
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Then, when I first read "pit" my mind went to Tol-in-Gaurhoth. However, this is a Dwarven pit, in the Common speech - and therefore DWARROWDELF?
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Once again the right location - but not the right name. Who said Common speech? (Or in other words: all
what?)
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I am not the puzzle maker, but I think only the first two answers you gave are right, because the password won't make sense otherwise (unless Huey chose a nonsense password.)
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As if I would! (I totally would, by accident if nothing else.) But not on this occasion.
Because I'm being picky about precise names, I'll sum up the above hints:
1 - name for Nargothrond
2 - name for Amon Rudh
3 - something about Durin
4 - something about plotting Thingol's death
5 - name for Belegost
6 - name for Moria
hS