those two clues are a) Biblical and b) musical

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1. Arab handmaid ate Jewish pastry- the upset without 440 produced a fiend
2. Get out? Nein! He's backwards!
3. BEREN: Remember England; he was in there.
4. Bluetooth gets garbled after tea, so you'll have to unscramble him
5. MAEDHROS: He's like, "Crazy beach, crazy!"
6. MAGLOR: Glam rocker without even thinking- he was the first and might be the last
7. Key crew! Activity will reveal him
8. He's a dunce on one side

Challah and rugelach are Jewish pastries mentioned in the bible.

Bilhah was Rachel's handmaid.

You're at least heading in the right direction.......

And 440 seems to be A.

Hagar was Sarai's handmaid.

The biblical term often means concubine.

And 'pilegesh' is the Hebrew word for concubine.

Balcmeg does contain BAGEL, but I doubt CM satisfies the remaining clues....

Based on Pervinca's reasoning, Grishnakh?

Or Shagrat, whose name contains HAGAR.

DING DING DING!

HAGAR + KNISH - A

1. GRISHNAKH: Arab handmaid ate Jewish pastry- the upset without 440 produced a fiend
2. Get out? Nein! He's backwards!
3. BEREN: Remember England; he was in there.
4. Bluetooth gets garbled after tea, so you'll have to unscramble him
5. MAEDHROS: He's like, "Crazy beach, crazy!"
6. MAGLOR: Glam rocker without even thinking- he was the first and might be the last
7. Key crew! Activity will reveal him
8. He's a dunce on one side

FWIW, I believe to the best of my knowledge that these 8 individuals are the only characters in Tolkien who fit this pattern

I still don't see the theme. As far as I know, those four have nothing in common......

I'm intrigued by 440 ... it's 'page not found,' isn't it? How is it also A?

Maybe the password is Halfhand, or Hurthand. Because.....all of their hands were hurt or lost.....

440 is A in music terms.....

standard tuning A is 440 Hertz

BOOM goes the dynamite!

1. GRISHNAKH: Arab handmaid ate Jewish pastry- the upset without 440 produced a fiend
2. ???U???: Get out? Nein! He's backwards!
3. BEREN: Remember England; he was in there.
4. ???T???Bluetooth gets garbled after tea, so you'll have to unscramble him
5. MAEDHROS: He's like, "Crazy beach, crazy!"
6. MAGLOR: Glam rocker without even thinking- he was the first and might be the last
7. ???N???: Key crew! Activity will reveal him
8. ???D???: He's a dunce on one side

Is it that they lose a body part? Did Grishnakh end up losing his head?

Ah ... ok!

What does that mean....?

One of them has to be Frodo, then.

Nein is German for no. Isildur cut off Sauron's hand

2. Sauron?

Maybe another is Isildur ... he wrote that the Ring was so hot that he doubted he would ever be free of the pain of it.

And I think Gollum said 'O my poor hands!' when remembering his torture.

And Isildur cut off one of Sauron's fingers.

2 NO + RAUS, backwards

1. GRISHNAKH: Arab handmaid ate Jewish pastry- the upset without 440 produced a fiend (sword-hand pierced by an arrow)
2. SAURON: Get out? Nein! He's backwards! (dactylectomy by Isildur)
3. BEREN: Remember England; he was in there. (wolf with the munchies)
4. ???T???: Bluetooth gets garbled after tea, so you'll have to unscramble him
5. MAEDHROS: He's like, "Crazy beach, crazy!" (hand amputated by Fingon, *and* burned by a Silmaril)
6. MAGLOR: Glam rocker without even thinking- he was the first and might be the last (burned by a Silmaril)
7. ???N???: Key crew! Activity will reveal him
8. ???D???: He's a dunce on one side


It's also the case that all these characters were trying to obtain a Super Important Bit of Bling, but that class includes far more people

And 'Raus! means 'Get out!'

8. Isildur? (I as roman numeral for 1, IS for is)

7 must be either Dernhelm or Merry, who injured their hand fighting the Witch King. I believe that one of the essential crew activities is minding the helm.....


and 'DERN' sounds like 'TURN'.

'Dur' as a sarcastic thing to say, implying someone is stupid?

Sauron had the Bling already ... but not for long.

Merry and Eowyn had their arms injured, not their hands.

I don't know whether Silmarils count as blings.

What about Isildur?

The whole theme was inspired by a wisecrack I once read, and used as my sig line here for a while: "Tolkien's writing is concerned primarily with disputes over the ownership of jewelry, and the hand injuries that occur as a result."

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No, not Isildur

Morgoth's hands were also burned, and he fits w/bluetooth clue as well, but he was rejected as the solution for that clue.

Hey, that Iron Crown was one heck of a flashy fashion statement!

But....speaking of hurt hands, my own signature comes to mind... :cool:

Um, no. What the heck is a gorm?

How about Frodo as 8?

You're going to have to solve clues, not just toss names out!

Frodo ... frod means wise, but the O on the other side of the red D could mean ... nothing?