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[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

6. Giants or stone-giants? Gandalf says he might enlist the help of a more or less decent giant to refill a chasm or something, while they are crossing the Misty Mountains en route to Erebor.

Correct! I think it's to block the Goblin Gate, though I wouldn't swear to it.

1. I save a third of a dwarf for last; seek me at the meeting of man and Eru.
2. Backwards we fall, the headless onion and I; are we an ogre or ent we?
3. Wearyhearted, I splash through the water with the Mariner, second in line.
4. But for my sword, you might think me an aged woman; I am not a number.
5. From paved road and shortened speech, I build and become white.
6. STONE GIANTS - We're tall and we rock! And some of us are more or less decent.

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

Damn! And after I'd found 'drain' in Aerandir as well as 'aer.'

meeting of man and Eru

Manure!

Well, it's well-known that M-e both needed and had it:

AULE: Nonetheless, they will have need of wood.
YAVANNA: And manure.

How else would their lettuces grow?

Love it. Not right, but love it.

hS

[Pervinca Took]

No cucumbers were there to match those of Ingwe in the Days of the Trees, for they were fertilised by the magical Dung of Araw's Kine.

I think 2 is ONODRIM, except the onion is tailless rather than headless. Is the are we / ent we saying include I'M?

I tried to find the singular of Onodrim ... would it be onod?

(Although knowing tricksy Huinesoron, it's probably a shallot or something, not 'onion' at all).

[Huinesoron]

You're very close to the right answer on multiple fronts, but it's not Onodrim or Onod (I think that is the singular, yes). Onion is neither onion nor shallot, but another synonym, or rather descriptor (and does need to be headless). You're right that there is a somewhat loose Entish connection.

hS

[Pervinca Took]

Originally Posted by Huinesoron

You're very close to the right answer on multiple fronts, but it's not Onodrim or Onod (I think that is the singular, yes). Onion is neither onion nor shallot, but another synonym, or rather descriptor (and does need to be headless). You're right that there is a somewhat loose Entish connection.

hS

Well, I've tried, but neither bulb nor vegetable nor allium cepa are very helpful.

Huorn or troll/olog seem the likeliest answers, but I cannot find the elements to build them from.

[Huinesoron]

Actually, one of those is extremely helpful.

Try putting them in the sentence.

hS

[Nerwen]

Allium, minus the first syllable and backwards = Muil, as in the Emyn Muil- but I can't account for the rest of it.

[Pervinca Took]

hS said put it in a sentence.

'The mule and I' might work if M-e had any centaurs!

And it sounds like Mjolnir, but isn't that Norse?

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Allium, minus the first syllable and backwards = Muil, as in the Emyn Muil- but I can't account for the rest of it.

Ah, are we going back to the idea of Sam tying his rope around an elderly Entwife?

Allium will not help you. And to the previous post, neither Huorn nor any form of troll are correct.

The pre-semicolon part of the clue is cryptic; the latter part is... kind of straight.

hS