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Old 07-14-2022, 03:24 PM   #12081
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Then 9 must be Thingol.
It is not.

Are you just guessing anyone connected with caves?

Edit: New page, I haven't done that for a while!

BELEG - Speaker of a spell: "Become a limb!"
OUTLAWS - The opposites of your wife's parents are wicked.
3. - A son named his father, but hesitated at the beginning of the world.
4. - A tasty king.
5. - Sounds grim, heir to the house.
6. - Before the road, a woman can go back and forth and seem fair.
7. - A confused alien with a Greek eye, and the first High King? I'm seeing red.
8. - In the shadows, hear me initially name my ideas for a villain.
9. - Muffin lost his tail, found a big stick, turned around and went down into a cave.
10. - Link up and profit in a break in the sun.
11. - A cat in eyeshadow definitely can't fly, but...
12. - The wretched band with an icy world covered in glitter.
13. - The Elvish fingermarks left by the childlike, or close enough for the youngest.
14. - Take a note at the top of the park, direct to the start of the word, and hide from him.

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Old 07-14-2022, 03:39 PM   #12082
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Yes. That, and the two answers we already have are both connected to Turin, as is Thingol. Plus, LOG backwards is in his name, which fits with the 'big stick' part.
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Old 07-14-2022, 03:44 PM   #12083
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Yes. That, and the two answers we already have are both connected to Turin, as is Thingol. Plus, LOG backwards is in his name, which fits with the 'big stick' part.
That is the correct interpretation of the big stick part, but this character has nothing to do with Turin.

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Old 07-14-2022, 03:49 PM   #12084
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Well, I cannot understand the Muffin part.
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Old 07-15-2022, 12:04 AM   #12085
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Just had a thought - it's not Muffin the Mule, is it?

Or maybe a near-synonym of muffin, like bun.

GOLLUM? MUL + LOG. Just noticed that he turns around. And he lives in a cave.

Before I noticed that he turns around, I found out that Tolkien created an early language called MAGOL, which was quite like Hungarian.
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Old 07-15-2022, 12:24 AM   #12086
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12. I am going to try RINGIL, Fingolfin's glittery sword.

'Wretched band' made me think of the One RING, so I went to look for things starting with RING and found out that RING actually means 'cold, icy.'

Unless it's RINGLO, the cold river. RINGIL has a stronger or known glittery connection, though, even though rivers can glitter when the sun shines on them.
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Old 07-15-2022, 04:00 AM   #12087
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Wonder if 6 is ANNATAR, because the pallindromic Anna cag go back and forth, and he did seem fair.
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Old 07-15-2022, 04:33 AM   #12088
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Just had a thought - it's not Muffin the Mule, is it?

Or maybe a near-synonym of muffin, like bun.

GOLLUM? MUL + LOG. Just noticed that he turns around. And he lives in a cave.

Before I noticed that he turns around, I found out that Tolkien created an early language called MAGOL, which was quite like Hungarian.
It is both Muffin the Mule and Gollum!

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12. I am going to try RINGIL, Fingolfin's glittery sword.

'Wretched band' made me think of the One RING, so I went to look for things starting with RING and found out that RING actually means 'cold, icy.'

Unless it's RINGLO, the cold river. RINGIL has a stronger or known glittery connection, though, even though rivers can glitter when the sun shines on them.
Neither of these; the band is not a ring.

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Wonder if 6 is ANNATAR, because the pallindromic Anna cag go back and forth, and he did seem fair.
This is right; 'road' = tar(mac).

BELEG - Speaker of a spell: "Become a limb!"
OUTLAWS - The opposites of your wife's parents are wicked.
3. - A son named his father, but hesitated at the beginning of the world.
4. - A tasty king.
5. - Sounds grim, heir to the house.
ANNATAR - Before the road, a woman can go back and forth and seem fair.
7. - A confused alien with a Greek eye, and the first High King? I'm seeing red.
8. - In the shadows, hear me initially name my ideas for a villain.
GOLLUM - Muffin lost his tail, found a big stick, turned around and went down into a cave.
10. - Link up and profit in a break in the sun.
11. - A cat in eyeshadow definitely can't fly, but...
12. - The wretched band with an icy world covered in glitter.
13. - The Elvish fingermarks left by the childlike, or close enough for the youngest.
14. - Take a note at the top of the park, direct to the start of the word, and hide from him.

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Old 07-15-2022, 04:44 AM   #12089
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7. It's something to do with 'something+Finwe', and if the alien is Mork, I am thinking of Morifinwe, aka Caranthir the Red.
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Old 07-15-2022, 05:15 AM   #12090
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Maybe 12 starts with GAURWAITH
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Old 07-15-2022, 06:01 AM   #12091
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7. It's something to do with 'something+Finwe', and if the alien is Mork, I am thinking of Morifinwe, aka Caranthir the Red.
It is a something-finwe (but frankly that's half the First Age), but the alien is not Mork, nor is there actually a "the alien". (But red is indeed a descriptor of the person.)

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Maybe 12 starts with GAURWAITH
It does not.

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7. Greek word for 'eye' is Mati, so then this is Maedhros?
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And 3 is then Curufin, because he technically did name his father, as they have the same name.
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7. Greek word for 'eye' is Mati, so then this is Maedhros?
Okay, right character, wrong name. I didn't know that Greek - I was making a cross-lingual pun on i grec. And since you'd get it as soon as you remembered the -finwe, I'll just fill in alien > alyen > Nelyafinwe on your behalf.

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And 3 is then Curufin, because he technically did name his father, as they have the same name.
It is not. Also, you want the father's name, as used by the son (once).

BELEG - Speaker of a spell: "Become a limb!"
OUTLAWS - The opposites of your wife's parents are wicked.
3. - A son named his father, but hesitated at the beginning of the world.
4. - A tasty king.
5. - Sounds grim, heir to the house.
ANNATAR - Before the road, a woman can go back and forth and seem fair.
NELYAFINWE - A confused alien with a Greek eye, and the first High King? I'm seeing red.
8. - In the shadows, hear me initially name my ideas for a villain.
GOLLUM - Muffin lost his tail, found a big stick, turned around and went down into a cave.
10. - Link up and profit in a break in the sun.
11. - A cat in eyeshadow definitely can't fly, but...
12. - The wretched band with an icy world covered in glitter.
13. - The Elvish fingermarks left by the childlike, or close enough for the youngest.
14. - Take a note at the top of the park, direct to the start of the word, and hide from him.

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Old 07-15-2022, 08:34 AM   #12095
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It is not. Also, you want the father's name, as used by the son (once).

Something is nagging on my brain now that I read this...something important, but I can't remember what exactly...
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Something is nagging on my brain now that I read this...something important, but I can't remember what exactly...
It is possible you will kick yourself over this one. It's definitely a question for you.

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Eureka!

It's Umarth, isn't it?

Hesitation = Um
World = Earth

Um + (E)arth = Umarth
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And password could be BOUND AND GAGGED
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8. Dark/darkness/dark lord.
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And password could be BOUND AND GAGGED
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8. Dark/darkness/dark lord.
Pervinca - you are brilliant. I couldn't figure out to do with the letters. But it's ENEMY - N. M. I. (well... it's eeeee if you say it in French...)
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Pervinca - you are brilliant. I couldn't figure out to do with the letters. But it's ENEMY - N. M. I. (well... it's eeeee if you say it in French...)
I'm afraid I'm not, at all. I just saw Urwen's guessing of the password, took the initial from her, then saw 'shadows.' And I'm not convinced I'm right even then!

Is the tasty king NOM? (Finrod).
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Is thd tasty king NOM? (Finrod).
Nooo..... Hui, this is next level passwording and punning... And I mean that as the highest possible compliment. It is bloody ridiculous, and I absolutely love it. But OMG tasty Nom - well, the werewolf must have thought so... Oh my gosh...



ETA: for #8, is it possible it's a combo of the two elements? Shadows + enemy = DARK FOE, aka Morgoth.

ETA #2: for 13, going purely by letter and theme, I would hazard Ernil i Pheriannath as the youngest.
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Old 07-16-2022, 03:22 AM   #12103
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Eureka!

It's Umarth, isn't it?

Hesitation = Um
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Um + (E)arth = Umarth
Yes, precisely.

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And password could be BOUND AND GAGGED
It is, and if memory serves it's all Pervinca's fault.


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Pervinca - you are brilliant. I couldn't figure out to do with the letters. But it's ENEMY - N. M. I. (well... it's eeeee if you say it in French...)
Correct, #8 is DARK NMI.

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Nooo..... Hui, this is next level passwording and punning... And I mean that as the highest possible compliment. It is bloody ridiculous, and I absolutely love it. But OMG tasty Nom - well, the werewolf must have thought so... Oh my gosh...
Nom nom nom the wise!

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ETA #2: for 13, going purely by letter and theme, I would hazard Ernil i Pheriannath as the youngest.
"Prints of the Halflings", but in Elvish.

So after all that, let's see what we got!

BELEG - Speaker of a spell: "Become a limb!"
OUTLAWS - The opposites of your wife's parents are wicked.
UMARTH - A son named his father, but hesitated at the beginning of the world.
NOM - A tasty king.
5. D - Sounds grim, heir to the house.
ANNATAR - Before the road, a woman can go back and forth and seem fair.
NELYAFINWE - A confused alien with a Greek eye, and the first High King? I'm seeing red.
DARK ENEMY - In the shadows, hear me initially name my ideas for a villain.
GOLLUM - Muffin lost his tail, found a big stick, turned around and went down into a cave.
10. A - Link up and profit in a break in the sun.
11. G - A cat in eyeshadow definitely can't fly, but...
12. G - The wretched band with an icy world covered in glitter.
ERNIL I PHERIANNATH - The Elvish fingermarks left by the childlike, or close enough for the youngest.
14. D - Take a note at the top of the park, direct to the start of the word, and hide from him.

All answers come in pairs; I'll dig out the quotes when we finish, but:

Beleg - Outlaws
Umarth (Hurin) - ???
Nom (nomnom) - Annatar (Thu/Gorthaur/Sauron)
Nelyafinwe (Maedhros) - Dark Enemy (Morgoth)
Gollum - ???
Ernil i Pheriannath (Pippin) - ???
??? - ???

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5 could be Daur, which sounds like 'dour'.
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That would make Grishnakh and Gorbag contenders as hobbit-binders. Frodo was only bound in the earlier drafts, but I'm taking 'Bound and Gagged' as a metaphorical expression for 'captured.'
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11. Is Gothmog (GOTH+MOG)
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Gollum was bound by ANBORN, (perhaps), but he was bound AND gagged by ARAGORN.

Both have ANOR for sun.
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Of course! A moggy in Goth eye-shadow.
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I am convinced that "icy world" is Hoth, which offers words like GAURHOTH and GLAMHOTH. I am betting on the latter, as Pippin's capturers, and very glam with glitter. But why wretched? Or is this specifically regarding Ugluk&co, who met a sour end?
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Wretched band of orcs, who end up dead.
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Old 07-18-2022, 04:28 AM   #12111
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Huey seems to have disappeared...
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Old 07-18-2022, 04:40 AM   #12112
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Huey seems to have disappeared...
A man's allowed to disappear for a couple days. Now, if he pulls a Gandalf and disappears for a couple years, now that would something.
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Old 07-18-2022, 07:29 AM   #12113
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The question is, who beginning with D captured Frodo?

Damrod guarded him awhile, along with Mablung, but does the name work?

DAUR *has* to be right - it fits the clue so well.
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Old 07-18-2022, 07:37 AM   #12114
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5 could be Daur, which sounds like 'dour'.
Correct. The "House" is Bag-End.

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That would make Grishnakh and Gorbag contenders as hobbit-binders. Frodo was only bound in the earlier drafts, but I'm taking 'Bound and Gagged' as a metaphorical expression for 'captured.'
Well, 'gagged' is for the words, but 'bound' is 100% literal. (Also neither of those are in the password.)

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11. Is Gothmog (GOTH+MOG)
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Of course! A moggy in Goth eye-shadow.
Ugh... "meow", I suppose, if you insist. But also yes.

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Gollum was bound by ANBORN, (perhaps), but he was bound AND gagged by ARAGORN.

Both have ANOR for sun.
It is neither of these. But that A is indeed a binder, not a bindee.

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I am convinced that "icy world" is Hoth, which offers words like GAURHOTH and GLAMHOTH. I am betting on the latter, as Pippin's capturers, and very glam with glitter. But why wretched? Or is this specifically regarding Ugluk&co, who met a sour end?
Glam Rock Hoth it is, and as Pervinca says...

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Wretched band of orcs, who end up dead.
All Orcs are wretched. ^_^ Nothing deeper to it, it's just the straight clue.

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Huey seems to have disappeared...
Weekend. But it's quite fun to know that 48 hours without my presence is too much to bear!

BELEG - Speaker of a spell: "Become a limb!"
OUTLAWS - The opposites of your wife's parents are wicked.
UMARTH - A son named his father, but hesitated at the beginning of the world.
NOM - A tasty king.
DAUR - Sounds grim, heir to the house.
ANNATAR - Before the road, a woman can go back and forth and seem fair.
NELYAFINWE - A confused alien with a Greek eye, and the first High King? I'm seeing red.
DARK ENEMY - In the shadows, hear me initially name my ideas for a villain.
GOLLUM - Muffin lost his tail, found a big stick, turned around and went down into a cave.
10. A - Link up and profit in a break in the sun.
GOTHMOG - A cat in eyeshadow definitely can't fly, but...
GLAMHOTH - The wretched band with an icy world covered in glitter.
ERNIL I PHERIANNATH - The Elvish fingermarks left by the childlike, or close enough for the youngest.
14. D - Take a note at the top of the park, direct to the start of the word, and hide from him.

Beleg & Outlaws
Umarth (Hurin) - Gothmog
Nom (nomnom) - Annatar (Thu/Gorthaur/Sauron)
Nelyafinwe (Maedhros) - Dark Enemy (Morgoth)
Gollum - Daur (Frodo)
Ernil i Pheriannath (Pippin) - Glamhoth (Orcs)
??? - ???

Two to go, and by chance they're a pair! One is an English name, one isn't.

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Old 07-18-2022, 07:46 AM   #12115
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Hang on ... is A ANGAINOR?

ANOR + GAIN, making Melkor the bindEE.*

* Who, to fit the clue, we must call the (D)ARK (L)ORD.

I had forgotten about Frodo (or rather Sam, on Frodo's orders) tying up Gollum.
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Old 07-19-2022, 02:53 AM   #12116
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Hang on ... is A ANGAINOR?

ANOR + GAIN, making Melkor the bindEE.*

* Who, to fit the clue, we must call the (D)ARK (L)ORD.

I had forgotten about Frodo (or rather Sam, on Frodo's orders) tying up Gollum.
Oh yeah, Melkor swings both ways. ^_~ I know it meant repeating a character, but I figured it was acceptable under the circumstances. An(gain)or and the Park Word it is.

BELEG - Speaker of a spell: "Become a limb!"
OUTLAWS - The opposites of your wife's parents are wicked.
UMARTH - A son named his father, but hesitated at the beginning of the world.
NOM - A tasty king.
DAUR - Sounds grim, heir to the house.
ANNATAR - Before the road, a woman can go back and forth and seem fair.
NELYAFINWE - A confused alien with a Greek eye, and the first High King? I'm seeing red.
DARK ENEMY - In the shadows, hear me initially name my ideas for a villain.
GOLLUM - Muffin lost his tail, found a big stick, turned around and went down into a cave.
ANGAINOR - Link up and profit in a break in the sun.
GOTHMOG - A cat in eyeshadow definitely can't fly, but...
GLAMHOTH - The wretched band with an icy world covered in glitter.
ERNIL I PHERIANNATH - The Elvish fingermarks left by the childlike, or close enough for the youngest.
DARK LORD - Take a note at the top of the park, direct to the start of the word, and hide from him.

So there it is - the Bondage in Middle-earth password, as requested. Everyone say thank you to our participating couples (and, er, multiples?):
  • Beleg & Outlaws: "Then he bade them tie Beleg to a tree outside the cave; and when he was hard bound hand and foot they questioned him." [Unfinished Tales]
  • Umarth (Hurin) & Gothmog: "Then Gothmog bound him and dragged him to Angband with mockery." [Silmarillion]
  • Nom (nomnom) & Annatar (Sauron): "Lo! sudden there was rending sound / of chains that parted and unwound, / of meshes broken. Forth there leaped / upon the wolvish thing that crept / in shadow faithful Felagund..." [Lay of Leithian]
  • Nelyafinwe (Maedhros) & Dark Enemy (Morgoth): "Morgoth took Maedhros and hung him from the face of a precipice upon Thangorodrim, and he was caught to the rock by the wrist of his right hand in a band of steel."
  • Gollum & Daur (Frodo): "`All we need is something to keep a hold on him,' said Frodo. '... Tie one end to his ankle, and keep a grip on the other end.'" [Two Towers]
  • Ernil i Pheriannath (Pippin) & Glamhoth (Orcs): "For the moment Pippin was unwatched. His legs were securely bound, but his arms were only tied about the wrists, and his hands were in front of him." [Two Towers]
  • Dark Lord (Melkor) & Angainor: "Melkor took refuge in the uttermost pit. Then Tulkas stood forth as champion of the Valar and wrestled with him, and cast him upon his face; and he was bound with the chain Angainor that Aulė had wrought, and led captive..." [Silmarillion]

Over to Urwen!

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Old 07-19-2022, 05:37 AM   #12117
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Excellent password. Finding pairs was a nice extra.

Even if we didn't get Gimli's apocryphal tying up of Legolas.
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Excellent password. Finding pairs was a nice extra.

Even if we didn't get Gimli's apocryphal tying up of Legolas.
I was leaving that one for you.

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Old 07-19-2022, 02:52 PM   #12119
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Gah! When Dark Enemy first popped up, I thought it was referring to Morgoth and the Angainor - but then assumed I was just wrong about that pair when he was paired up with Maedhros, and just never returned to it.

I loved that password, Hui. It is creative and hilarious. It's amazing that you managed to find so many first letter clues too. It's actually quite remarkable how many people were bound at one point or another (as to who bound Frodo - Shelob did, I kept trying to force her into the password too!), and, ME kinkiness aside, it's such a ridiculously wonderful theme, and so well done. I still can't get over Nomnomnom. Tasty Elvses!
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Old 07-19-2022, 03:18 PM   #12120
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Let me use this space to ask someone, anyone, to continue the other games, such as the Riddles in the Downs, Bad Guy Trivia or Family Tree Trivia? Please?
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