Ah well my norse mythology isnt as strong a suit as perhaps it should be for a keen Tolkienista. i was fiiddling around with a to g and indeed the solfege notes but I was still thinking Middle earth so..... I dont think a overall clue is needed
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Pomdering if Bronte country means Angria or Gondal. Or just Yorkshire!
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Ah-haaa - keep thinking that way and you'll get that one. :)
The clues copied to the new page - with those already solved: 1. Finance loses note for the father of a lord. 2. Palindromic hobbit mingled initially with Radagast, before meeting destruction at the place where his erstwhile comrade finally fell. 3. We hear anger and noise in the quiet place, but note the direction. 4. Stop around a while for an (arguably) unjust moniker. Oin (All-Father loses note for a debt-ridden dwarf (we hear)). Nobottle (Teetotal Shire village). 7. A hostelry from Brontë country, we hear, inspired an unfinished demise. |
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Not sure where the erstwhile comrade comes into this though unless it's a reference to the kinship of the Hobbits and Smeagol's people. |
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And now I am in sound alike mode, I will try Rath Dinen for 3 Wrath and din, Rath dinen means IIRC the Silent Street but I can't quite get the last clause to fit. |
4. Lathspell - halt mixed up and a spell (as in spell of bad weather) for a title that's not that false if you think about it.
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Sorry for the delay. I think the website was down for a short time, and then I was too busy to look in.
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Odo, as you rightly point out, is a palindromic hobbit name (the only other hobbit palindrome I know of is Bob, one of Barliman's assistants). You are correct about mingling this with Radagast's initial and joining it with "ruin." ERSTWHILE COMRADE / ODO: It was a different Odo that I had in mind. ;) - Orodruin was where FRODO finally fell to the power of the Ring. - ODO was the prototype of MERRY in the early drafts of LOTR, where FRODO was the prototype of PIPPIN. - So Frodo was the erstwhile comrade of Odo, either because Odo was the comrade of Bingo, the character who became Frodo, or because Odo was the comrade of Frodo, who started as Pippin but became the Frodo of the final, finished LOTR. Quote:
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Your answer is correct. Rath Dinen is the Silent Street, and hence the quiet place. "Rath" sounds like "wrath" and "din" is "noise." Then add a note - E - and a direction - N. Quote:
All of which gives us: FUNDIN - Finance loses note for the father of a lord. ORODRUIN - Palindromic hobbit mingled initially with Radagast, before meeting destruction at the place where his erstwhile comrade finally fell. RATH DINEN - We hear anger and noise in the quiet place, but note the direction. LATHSPELL - Stop around a while for an (arguably) unjust moniker. OIN - All-Father loses note for a debt-ridden dwarf (we hear). NOBOTTLE - Teetotal Shire village. GONDOLIN - A hostelry from Brontë country, we hear, inspired an unfinished demise. As I like composing cryptic clues, I actually have another couple of password puzzles all ready. Would you like me to post one of them, or would one of the winners like to do the next one? |
Great clues Pervinca. I am not sure what the etiquette is now since the password is now obvious but Galadriel who solved the last clue hasn'tclaimed it.
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That's what I was thinking. Will wait and see if Galadriel wants to post the next one before I post another one.
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And anyways I can't be trusted now to check regularly since my workload is growing taller by the hour... So I'm not going to come and claim anything. :) |
OK, would Ardent or Mithalwen like to post one? Either of them could well have got the password had I been able to log on yesterday and confirm their answers.
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I think it would have taken a while to get lathspell ..it was bugging me. but i could have a go because i should have time rather than because i feel entitled. I am happy to cede to Ardemy.
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Ah I should pay more attention I characteristically grasped the stick firmly by the wrong end and thought it wasn't quite the thing to say the pass word if you hadn't finished it ..in my defence I think the last time I was involved in the thread the setter had dislocated the password sneakily to the other end of the answer which confuzzled me to the point I couldn't get it even when there were all the answers... however as my mama used to say... it DOES help if you read the destructions.
Ardent, forgive me, I was typing late at night on a grey Kindle screen and am in total denial that I may need specs. :o OK well I shall try to post ASAP.. |
I thought the same, Mithalwen - I had guessed the Dwarrow one, but I thought we weren't allowed to say it until all the clues were solved. (Then Nerwen posted it and I read the first page again).
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Again typing on kindle so while I will try hard to avoid typos....
1 Glimmer fractures around a sigh for lethal epesse. 2 Numenorean declares himself a blade. 3 Heart breaks and loses direction. No good follows here. 4 Dour and doomed standardbearer. 5 Highelven nightingale 6 I host Gail at place with broken spanner. 7 Elder Nan to Celebrimbor at least 8 Sounds like a cursed wand ranging in Ithilien |
8. Damrod - a Ranger of Ithilien - damn + rod?
3. A ford and town named Tharbad? |
Both correct. Well done.
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5. Tinuviel?
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Sorry no...
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I thought that one sounded deceptively easy! :) (Unless it's Luthien).
1 Glimmer fractures around a sigh for lethal epesse. 2 Numenorean declares himself a blade. Tharbad - Heart breaks and loses direction. No good follows here. 4 Dour and doomed standardbearer. 5 Highelven nightingale 6 I host Gail at place with broken spanner. 7 Elder Nan to Celebrimbor at least Damrod - Sounds like a cursed wand ranging in Ithilien Without looking at family trees, I'm going to guess that Nerdanel was one of Celebrimbor's grandmothers. And thinking about it, I think he is the son of one of Feanor's sons - Celegorm, I think. Nerdanel is an anagram of Elder Nan - very clever! |
Giggles.... it might be even easier..
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5. Lomelindi?
4. Halbarad? I'm not in a very cryptic mood, evidently. |
Luthien? (I added it in an edit). (And Nerdanel for No. 7).
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Again both correct. This may ne done very quickly
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Both of Galadriel's, or both of mine? (Or both of both of us?) ;)
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Sorry cross posted with Pervinca. Lomelind quenya for Nightingale is correct though I suppose since Thingol did go to Valinor Luthien could be regarded as high elven but a bit of a technicality IMO
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OK - so was Nerdanel correct?
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Nerdanel which wasnt thee last time i looked is correct. Seems I tried too hard not to be obscure but momentum is fun too...
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The key is to make the first one hard, I think. Which I think you've done quite successfully.
I wonder if it's Mithlond? 1 Glimmer fractures around a sigh for lethal epesse. 2 Numenorean declares himself a blade. Tharbad - Heart breaks and loses direction. No good follows here. Halbarad - Dour and doomed standardbearer. Lomelind - Highelven nightingale 6 I host Gail at place with broken spanner. Nerdanel - Elder Nan to Celebrimbor at least Damrod - Sounds like a cursed wand ranging in Ithilien 6. Osgiliath? |
I dont think any are particularly hard but when you get to the point of needing certain letters..
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Yep anagram of the city where the bridge was broken...couldnt resist one of my punny clues
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Yes it is Mithlond and are you editing a lot oar am i really unobservant?
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Yes, I have been editing rather than double-posting - I added Osgiliath after Mithlond.
1 Glimmer fractures around a sigh for lethal epesse. 2 Numenorean declares himself a blade. Tharbad - Heart breaks and loses direction. No good follows here. Halbarad - Dour and doomed standardbearer. Lomelind - Highelven nightingale Osgiliath - I host Gail at place with broken spanner. Nerdanel - Elder Nan to Celebrimbor at least Damrod - Sounds like a cursed wand ranging in Ithilien |
Ah the kindle browser doesnt show edits... i just thought I was losing the plot
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Oh, I see ... actually I hadn't realised that you could also type/webbrowse/post on a Kindle. I just have a sort of Kindle package on my computer, downloaded for things that you can only get on Kindle.
2. Imrazôr? |
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imrazor is correct |
1. Mormegil, the Black Sword?
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Indeed..all done and dusted in three hours . Could be a record..
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