Already used?

Where?

Unless he's the I clue.

......

Are you pulling my leg or you really don't know? :eek:

Lomion is Eol, isn't it? Well, his wife and son are answers, but I don't see him.

... checks again ...

Oh. Maeglin.

To get it on this page.

Bump

Eriol as an oriel (window). :D

Nope. The synonym used in the clue is seldom used. You're the champion of this thread, surely it isn't this difficult.....

They're always easy if you know the answers!

And I wouldn't call myself a champion, let alone the. I find Nerwen and Huey's clues *really* hard, for starters.

It's an archaic synonym.

Yeah, but it's finding the letters. Also not easy when you don't know where in the name the O is!

Plus there aren't that many 'tasks' in Tolkien's works. Ringbearing for Frodo, reclaiming the Silmarils for Feanor & Sons, getting a Silmaril for Beren & Luthien ... but these are too long and aren't synonyms for anyone.

Let's see. 'Lookout' for Balin. Again, not a synonym.

Burglar/thief/thieving ... not anagrams of Bilbo/Baggins.

Then there's gardener for Sam and steward for many, and king for many, and landlord for Butterbur. But these are *professions* or positions, not individual tasks. Also, not character-synonyms.

Unless there was ever a king whose name was a synonym of 'monarch.'

What if I told you that the answer is in the post I just quoted?

Well, Barliman is an anagram of MAL BRAIN. But aside from not being a task, that's both cruel and a little unfair. :D

You listed other names too. Try one of those

If you still need a hint, then here it is:

yortsed rof mynonys ciahcra na si rof gnikool era uoy drow eht

Bilbo as Biblo (maybe writer?)

(Guessed without reading your hint).

No.

I was thinking of an anagram of slayer. (Now have read your hint).

But this would be slay. But more archaic than slay. I'll have another look.

If Denethor had a sideline as a pimp, he could be a HO-TENDER :smokin:

Well, if the name is one listed verbatim in your post, the only one whose task was to destroy anything was Frodo.

Fordo = Frodo.

Destroy the Ring.

To fordo ... like when Edmund was going to lie and say Cordelia 'fordid herself.'

Oh, heck. FORDO, as in FORDONE.

Nice one, Urwen

*slow clap*


MAEGLIN: A puzzle gains direction for him
EOWYN: A state abbreviation inside of a long period of time, for her
FARAMIR: Muddled distant reverse edge for him.
AREDHEL: Follow through, with a direction? She will not do this.
VANA: A vehicle, noted. She appears
FRODO: Muddle up his task to get his name.
IDRIL: Note Maltese money, returned. For her
I: Mix this compound for him
LALAITH: Greet the key for her
TAR MIRIEL: Rearrange a rodent containing lime for her
S: Mixed complex plant tissue, for him

1. VERY nice clue.

2. Impeccable taste in characters.

3. His task was, strictly speaking, to find the cracks of doom. But I'll let you off. :D

Thanks, but.....you still have two more to go. :smokin:

I'll help you out, because you deserve it.

1. Fire Maiden isn't the only CoH in the set
2. The last one is the first character I liked when I read Silmarillion for the first time.

So either a Vala / early Elf mention, or you really didn't like many characters on your first read? ;)

I know. I was just commending you for having Frodo as a favourite.

Now ... is the compound thing just a compound name? DAGNIR GLAURUNGA, maybe?

There is only one choice of character if it's a CofH and a male. Unless you mean just a character from that *book.*

I don't know if titanium + ruthenium + nitrogen is a real alloy, but it yields a rather radioactive TURIN

Given what havoc a *non*-radioactive Turin can wreak, I will go to sleep with that rather disturbing thought!

See you all tomorrow!

It's a compound name, and the compound is found in several food types (most notably in citrus fruits)

Oh, he was mentioned early all right. But he was also mentioned later. In fact, he was mentioned multiple times during the book, and was one of the prominent ringleaders (pun not intended) :p

C6H8O7?

(Citric acid).

c27h30o16

Citric acid! Ascorbic acid! Vitamin C!

I don't know what the answer is, I can't make anything of the above. I'm just shouting out things.

Edit: xed with the last clue and the last couple posts above it. Makes sense now...

MORMEGIL

has LIME
almost has MERGE
and MINGLE

Can anyone make something of this?

Is S TULKAS? (Stalk).

Can't account for the U, though.

c27h30o16

Pervinca, google the chemical formula Urwen posted. :)

Okay, c27h30o16 is something called "rutin," which "is the glycoside combining the flavonol quercetin and the disaccharide rutinose."

Yeah, because anyone could have guessed that.

Anyway, TURIN

OK, teh Interwebz sez that there are two kinds of "complex plant tissue," that is tissue made of different kinds of cells:

Xylem
Phloem

Problem is, neither has an S (and I'm pretty sure nobody in Tolkien has an X)

Yeah, have looked all through complex plant tissues on the interweb and found nothing that seemed to work.

Not mad rose + h ... MAEDHROS???

And not TULKAS??? (Stalk + unaccountable U).

Well, unless Urwen's done a complete 180 I can't see Maedhros being on the list of her "favourites".