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[Pervinca Took]

DAIN: Me, subjectively, plus him ... for him .... (Well, in a roundabout sort of way).
WILDERLAND: The prairies!
ARKENSTONE: It’s Undomiel’s monument, with a slight modification.
RIVENDELL: Tear demon, causing dental loss, left all around the refuge.
EVIF (FIRTREES): Retreat a step too far, to place of near-immolation? It’s just a number.
EGG: Answer this hider of gold.
SMAUG: Such a self-satisfied villain. Barely perturbed!

THEME: 'THE HOBBIT'

As Huinesoron has just said, e'en verily is it so,
But salute we now Formendacil - for lo! It is his go!

[Formendacil]

Have to finish actually making one... I post here to be accountable that I shall do it!

[Formendacil]

1. But one or two letters of separation keep this genus from the Dark Lord.
2. "Is me?" quoth Pandora.
3. Too dignified to be cut down to a palatal nasal epithet.
4. On a western beach we sup.
5. Stronger as jumbled iron.
6. Too wayward a king.
7. Pickle and a non-kosher delicacy.
8. "Not a game" of chance.
9. Patron of a most singular Eorling.


Took me look enough! This is my first puzzle, so... I apologise if it is either too off-the-wall or accidentally brushes against the unspoken but traditional bounds.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

Took me look enough! This is my first puzzle, so... I apologise if it is either too off-the-wall or accidentally brushes against the unspoken but traditional bounds.

Well without first puzzles we tend to fall prey to group dynamics and really narrow the scope of questions. I say it's a good thing if this falls outside the usual style, it adds variety.

A couple guesses:

5. Nori?
6. Telcontar?

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Well without first puzzles we tend to fall prey to group dynamics and really narrow the scope of questions. I say it's a good thing if this falls outside the usual style, it adds variety.

A couple guesses:

5. Nori?
6. Telcontar?

No on both--though the thinking behind Nori is probably right.

[Nerwen]

"Estel", then?

Edit: I mean for #5- anagram of "steel".

[Formendacil]

1. But one or two letters of separation keep this genus from the Dark Lord.
2. "Is me?" quoth Pandora.
3. Too dignified to be cut down to a palatal nasal epithet.
4. On a western beach we sup.
ESTEL Stronger as jumbled iron.
6. Too wayward a king.
7. Pickle and a non-kosher delicacy.
8. "Not a game" of chance.
9. Patron of a most singular Eorling.

[Pervinca Took]

That's a good one! I was thinking of steel, because I believe it's iron sort of jumbled with some air to make it more durable, but I didn't realise it was an anagram of Estel.

[Pervinca Took]

Is 2 something to do with misery, as that is what Pandora unleashed from the box, and the first four letters of it are an anagram of 'is me?"

Are we looking for the elvish for misery, or something?

[Pervinca Took]

7 suggests pork, which could be an accompaniment to pickle, and might work if the theme were flotsam and jetsam.

Otherwise, pickle could mean FIX, a favourite word of Sam's. Or perhaps it is an anagram indicator.

I can't think of any actual pickles mentioned in the books.

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

Is 2 something to do with misery, as that is what Pandora unleashed from the box, and the first four letters of it are an anagram of 'is me?"

Are we looking for the elvish for misery, or something?

There's no connection in my mind to misery in this answer, though fertile minds can probably dredge up some connection if they try hard enough. It'd be a red herring to bark at, though.

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

7 suggests pork, which could be an accompaniment to pickle, and might work if the theme were flotsam and jetsam.

Otherwise, pickle could mean FIX, a favourite word of Sam's. Or perhaps it is an anagram indicator.

I can't think of any actual pickles mentioned in the books.

You're on the right track with pickles and pork, but flotsam and jetsam is not the theme, nor is FIX the answer. It's not an anagram either.

[Formendacil]

1. But one or two letters of separation keep this genus from the Dark Lord.
2. "Is me?" quoth Pandora.
NOLDOR Too dignified to be cut down to a palatal nasal epithet.
4. On a western beach we sup.
ESTEL Stronger as jumbled iron.
6. Too wayward a king.
7. Pickle and a non-kosher delicacy.
8. "Not a game" of chance.
9. Patron of a most singular Eorling.

[Pervinca Took]

4. Don't know about sup, but the SOLOSIMPE pipe on the western beach of Eldamar.

And I think Limpe (found in the word) is a kind of mead.

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

4. Don't know about sup, but the SOLOSIMPE pipe on the western beach of Eldamar.

And I think Limpe (found in the word) is a kind of mead.

Alas, no.

[Formendacil]

Indeed it is!


1. But one or two letters of separation keep this genus from the Dark Lord.
2. "Is me?" quoth Pandora.
NOLDOR Too dignified to be cut down to a palatal nasal epithet.
4. On a western beach we sup.
ESTEL Stronger as jumbled iron.
RANA Too wayward a king.
7. Pickle and a non-kosher delicacy.
8. "Not a game" of chance.
9. Patron of a most singular Eorling.

[Galadriel55]

A wild tangent but can the non-kosher delicacy somehow become beacon through bacon? Though still no ideas for pickle.