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Anguirel · 03-04-2006, 05:36 AM

I like digamma myself.

Mithalwen · 03-04-2006, 05:48 AM

Maths?

I think I have told you enough to get you started....

Anguirel · 03-04-2006, 06:39 AM

Nah, not Maths, Greek...

Digamma is the reason lots of really really ancient Minoan Greek words end in inthos. I forget exactly how or why. It's pronounced something like a w.

Now I'm crawling back into the linguistic waste whence I came. But I hope my yogh contribution is of some help to a sharper aftercomer...

Morsul the Dark · 03-04-2006, 09:56 AM

aelithes

Quote:

I don't feel like I have an advantage, but with ash you might be talking about the Anglo-Saxon rune then? I think it's the ae, but I'm not sure.

so ae-

then serpent slithers....sooooo.............

aelithes

i know im wrong but its a try

Mithalwen · 03-05-2006, 11:50 AM

You are right though the rest of the clue was intended differently.

æ is indeed called ash and is just the most beautiful letter to my mind..like a little flower.

So we have ae

Lissom means much the same as lithe

and the initial letter of serpent is s

aelithes indeed.

Your go Morsul.

Oh Cailin - I am so sorry - I was on a library computer yesterday and somehow I didn't see your response else I would have acknowledged it ....... So while I guess Morsul has the turn you get a lot of Kudos

Morsul the Dark · 03-06-2006, 08:26 AM

The river angel from the mysterious date

Nilpaurion Felagund · 03-06-2006, 07:10 PM

Is this cryptic?

Mysterious date . . . last visit 1969?

anduin angel 44?

03-04-2006, 05:36 AM	#1
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	I like digamma myself. __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso

03-04-2006, 05:48 AM	#2
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Maths? I think I have told you enough to get you started.... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

03-04-2006, 06:39 AM	#3
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	Nah, not Maths, Greek... Digamma is the reason lots of really really ancient Minoan Greek words end in inthos. I forget exactly how or why. It's pronounced something like a w. Now I'm crawling back into the linguistic waste whence I came. But I hope my yogh contribution is of some help to a sharper aftercomer... __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso

03-05-2006, 11:50 AM	#5
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	A winner You are right though the rest of the clue was intended differently. æ is indeed called ash and is just the most beautiful letter to my mind..like a little flower. So we have ae Lissom means much the same as lithe and the initial letter of serpent is s aelithes indeed. Your go Morsul. Oh Cailin - I am so sorry - I was on a library computer yesterday and somehow I didn't see your response else I would have acknowledged it ....... So while I guess Morsul has the turn you get a lot of Kudos __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

03-06-2006, 08:26 AM	#6
Morsul the Dark Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 3,448	The river angel from the mysterious date __________________ Morsul the Resurrected

03-06-2006, 07:10 PM	#7
Nilpaurion Felagund Scion of The Faithful Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The brink, where hope and despair are akin. [The Philippines] Posts: 5,312	Is this cryptic? Mysterious date . . . last visit 1969? anduin angel 44? __________________ フェンリス鴨 (Fenrisu Kamo) The plot, cut, defeated. I intend to copy this sig forever - so far so good...

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