Cryptic Clues - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Pervinca Took · 01-19-2014, 06:58 PM

I've just noticed that TOL GALEN is an anagram of LONG TALE. Was this anyone's final destination?

Edit: Having looked it up, it's the Green Isle where Beren and Luthien end their mortal days (which of course has another name meaning the Land of the Dead that Live) ... so their final destination within the Circles of the World. I knew the name well, but couldn't remember what it referred to.

I hadn't looked at this clue for ages, but I think when I first tried it I was expecting it to be an elvish name for one of the tales, as when I tried using "final destination" as the straight part of the clue I was thinking of fairly obvious final destinations like Orodruin, Tol Eressea and Erebor, and I couldn't get them by shuffling "long tale" or anything meaning "long tale."

01-19-2014, 06:58 PM	#11
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	I've just noticed that TOL GALEN is an anagram of LONG TALE. Was this anyone's final destination? Edit: Having looked it up, it's the Green Isle where Beren and Luthien end their mortal days (which of course has another name meaning the Land of the Dead that Live) ... so their final destination within the Circles of the World. I knew the name well, but couldn't remember what it referred to. I hadn't looked at this clue for ages, but I think when I first tried it I was expecting it to be an elvish name for one of the tales, as when I tried using "final destination" as the straight part of the clue I was thinking of fairly obvious final destinations like Orodruin, Tol Eressea and Erebor, and I couldn't get them by shuffling "long tale" or anything meaning "long tale." __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 01-19-2014 at 07:15 PM.