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Bêthberry · 05-07-2004, 01:42 PM

Well, Esty, I guess I was simply too cryptic.

Leaf by Niggle I would say, and Smith of Wootton Major, to be more plain about it.

Edit: shame about the Sniggle. Must have been thinking of Nmith.

Estelyn Telcontar · 05-07-2004, 02:00 PM

Right answer, Bêthberry - nothing to niggle at! Your turn...

Bêthberry · 05-08-2004, 01:49 PM

Right, then, Estelyn, here's my go at it.

Tolkien praised one of his illustrators very highly. He said that the pictures "are more than illustrations; they are a collateral theme."

Of whom was he speaking?

Son of Númenor · 05-08-2004, 01:55 PM

Might it be Pauline Baynes?

Bêthberry · 05-08-2004, 08:11 PM

It might indeed, Son of Númenor. Your go. And welcome to this thread.

Son of Númenor · 05-08-2004, 08:29 PM

Which Lord of the Rings character's name was not-so-subtly derived from the name of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's real-life neighbours in Sarehole?

Bêthberry · 05-08-2004, 09:50 PM

Well now, there was apparently an old farmer who had chased young Ronald for picking mushrooms à la Farmer Maggot, but I think he has come down to us known only by the moniker of "the Black Orgre." And the miller's son was nicknamed "The White Ogre" but again, we lack an historical name.

Yet there was a Birmingham man who invented a surgical bandaid (plaster?) which became known as "gamgee-tissue", derived from his name, Dr. Gamgee. In the Warwickshire dialect 'gamgee' meant cotton wool. And that's how he came to be named, our Sam, I am suggesting.

05-07-2004, 01:42 PM	#1
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	Well, Esty, I guess I was simply too cryptic. Leaf by Niggle I would say, and Smith of Wootton Major, to be more plain about it. Edit: shame about the Sniggle. Must have been thinking of Nmith. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away. Last edited by Bêthberry; 05-07-2004 at 01:48 PM.

05-07-2004, 02:00 PM	#2
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Right answer, Bêthberry - nothing to niggle at! Your turn... __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

05-08-2004, 01:49 PM	#3
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	worth a thousand words Right, then, Estelyn, here's my go at it. Tolkien praised one of his illustrators very highly. He said that the pictures "are more than illustrations; they are a collateral theme." Of whom was he speaking? __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

05-08-2004, 01:55 PM	#4
Son of Númenor A Shade of Westernesse Join Date: May 2004 Location: The last wave over Atalantë Posts: 515	:) Might it be Pauline Baynes? __________________ "This miserable drizzling afternoon I have been reading up old military lecture-notes again:- and getting bored with them after an hour and a half. I have done some touches to my nonsense fairy language - to its improvement."

05-08-2004, 08:11 PM	#5
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	It might indeed, Son of Númenor. Your go. And welcome to this thread. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

05-08-2004, 08:29 PM	#6
Son of Númenor A Shade of Westernesse Join Date: May 2004 Location: The last wave over Atalantë Posts: 515	Merry Wollstonecraft? Charles Arwen? Tolkien's neighbour.... Which Lord of the Rings character's name was not-so-subtly derived from the name of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's real-life neighbours in Sarehole? __________________ "This miserable drizzling afternoon I have been reading up old military lecture-notes again:- and getting bored with them after an hour and a half. I have done some touches to my nonsense fairy language - to its improvement."

05-08-2004, 09:50 PM	#7
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	Frankly, there's no Mr. Shankley Well now, there was apparently an old farmer who had chased young Ronald for picking mushrooms à la Farmer Maggot, but I think he has come down to us known only by the moniker of "the Black Orgre." And the miller's son was nicknamed "The White Ogre" but again, we lack an historical name. Yet there was a Birmingham man who invented a surgical bandaid (plaster?) which became known as "gamgee-tissue", derived from his name, Dr. Gamgee. In the Warwickshire dialect 'gamgee' meant cotton wool. And that's how he came to be named, our Sam, I am suggesting. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.