Riddles in the Downs

[Huinesoron]

brb, checking The Children of Hurin.

Hmm, okay. I'm going to guess you are Anglachel/Gurthang. There's some nice translated names in the riddle - I spotted "strong" for Beleg and "place of shadows" for Taur-nu-Fuin. I had to look up "twilight" for Nan Elmoth, and can't make "place of light" fit anything specific for Doriath.

The thing I was checking was what actually happened to ol'Blacksword. The riddle made me wonder if it had gone into the river somehow, but shattering counts as "died at the riverside". "Swallowed by the tide" I guess means... blood and/or despair?

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[Urwen]

Your explanation is correct.

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Urwen

Your explanation is correct.

Awesome. This one's been percolating in my mind for a week or two:

At the first we stood high on the slopes,
Watching waiting as the wanderer climbed.
One of us watched the dance in the dark,
Held the haggard hero lest he fall.
And one strode swift through gentle hills,
Great gait drawing the gaze of passer-by.
But at the last we fell, frail and weak:
The master may have mourned us, if he learned.

"Not very good, perhaps, but to the point," as Bilbo says (that's not a clue).

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[Urwen]

That makes me think of paired things, and my first instinct says the Towers of the Teeth.

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Urwen

That makes me think of paired things, and my first instinct says the Towers of the Teeth.

Not the Towers of the Teeth, and I wouldn't get too hung up on "paired" if I were you.

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[Mithadan]

The watchers of the gate of Cirith Ungol?

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Mithadan

The watchers of the gate of Cirith Ungol?

Also no. The speakers were never in Mordor.

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