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Firefoot · 01-29-2005, 07:48 AM

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8. Take the year Frodo was born. Add that number to the year a certain Took went off on a journey, never to return. From that, subtract the year (not in Shire-reckoning) when the Oldbucks came to occupy Buckland. Add the year in which Tobold Hornblower plants the first pipeweed in the Shire. Subtract the date (of the day, not month) that comes after Lithe. Keep that year. Take the third month that has no holidays. The day is the number of Shirriffs per Farthing times the number of hobbit branches times the number of Elf-towers that could be seen on the Tower Hills in the western marches of the Shire. What happened on this monumental date?

01-29-2005, 07:48 AM	#34
Firefoot Illusionary Holbytla Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 7,547	Sophia - 5 Lindo - 2.5 8. Take the year Frodo was born. Add that number to the year a certain Took went off on a journey, never to return. From that, subtract the year (not in Shire-reckoning) when the Oldbucks came to occupy Buckland. Add the year in which Tobold Hornblower plants the first pipeweed in the Shire. Subtract the date (of the day, not month) that comes after Lithe. Keep that year. Take the third month that has no holidays. The day is the number of Shirriffs per Farthing times the number of hobbit branches times the number of Elf-towers that could be seen on the Tower Hills in the western marches of the Shire. What happened on this monumental date?