Not Hini or anything like it. You're overthinking. Look at the theme and the previous clues, work with the straight clue.
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I'm actually wondering at HOBBITS, since they were seen as myths by the Men of the southern realms, and are repeatedly referred to as children. But I can't make it fit the cryptic even slightly.
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I was trying Pheriannath without success, but maybe HOLBYTLAN (which I had forgotten) has the elements required.
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Indeed so!
1. MEWLIP: Feline noise on half-mouth in slimy swamp. 2. ENYD: Hear they eat backwards, but they prefer drink. 3. OLIPHAUNT: Hangout after one cut off trampled tramper. 4. HOLBYTLA: Children stop in the entrance suddenly, confused. Back over to you! |
OK then.
1. Butterflies? Confused heroine finds direction twice, and she's radiant. 2. He appears to die, classically perturbed. 3. A troubled sound of pain gives him away. 4. Mutilate, seize ring, but lose an article? Such chaos! Is he really that violent, or just very powerful? 5. Find him in a rotating sauna. |
3. ARGON, an anagram of groan?
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Right method, wrong guy. Try a different synonym (and maybe slightly less intense pain).
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NÁMO ("Moan"), then?
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Correct.
1. Butterflies? Confused heroine finds direction twice, and she's radiant.
2. He appears to die, classically perturbed. NAMO: A troubled sound of pain gives him away. 4. Mutilate, seize ring, but lose an article? Such chaos! Is he really that violent, or just very powerful? 5. Find him in a rotating sauna. |
Ok, poorly reasoned guess that 5 is SAURON, based on the fact that you can find all the letters in the last two words of the clue.
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Not Sauron. You need a synonym.
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Pssst ... as I wouldn't want those in the UK to be at an unfair advantage, you might want to Google 'Butterflies' ....
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ARIEN -radiant being Sun Maia and anagram of Ria with initials of North and East. Ria was heroine of the wonderful Seventies tragi-comedy series Butterflies the theme song of which I now have as an earworm
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It's Mithalwen! :)
ARIEN: Butterflies? Confused heroine finds direction twice, and she's radiant. 2. He appears to die, classically perturbed. NAMO: A troubled sound of pain gives him away. 4. Mutilate, seize ring, but lose an article? Such chaos! Is he really that violent, or just very powerful? 5. Find him in a rotating sauna. Indeed so. Late 70's and early 80's British sitcom starring Wendy Craig as Ria, the heroine, and Geoffrey Palmer as her husband. I looked it up and I think it ran from 1978 to 1982. (I have the earworm, too). Regarding the earworm, apparently the theme tune was originally a Dolly Parton song. |
I'm really bad with anagrams... :-/
A bad guess for #4: if you mutilate 'grab band', you get 'ANGBAND', which is the home of someone both violent and powerful. ... wait, hang on. Is the password AINUR? And if so, is #2 IRMO, as an anagram of the Latin word mori, which I'm pretty sure is related to death? ... right, so #4 starts with MAUL, claims an O, loses the A, and is then scrambled to make ULMO. hS |
ARIEN: Butterflies? Confused heroine finds direction twice, and she's radiant.
IRMO: He appears to die, classically perturbed. NAMO: A troubled sound of pain gives him away. ULMO: Mutilate, seize ring, but lose an article? Such chaos! Is he really that violent, or just very powerful? R: Find him in a rotating sauna. Yes. 'Classically' to indicate the Latin, and 'mori' I believe literally means 'to die' in 'pro patria mori.' Well done! I'm rather fond of clue 5. :) |
... ROMESTAMO is an anagram of 'steam room', isn't it? :D
I was pretty sure there were only two Ainur with R- names (the other being Radagast), but I couldn't find the clue in either of them until now. I'm properly impressed you spotted that! (And bonus points for using the Blue Wizards, of course.) hS |
ARIEN: Butterflies? Confused heroine finds direction twice, and she's radiant.
IRMO: He appears to die, classically perturbed. NAMO: A troubled sound of pain gives him away. ULMO: Mutilate, seize ring, but lose an article? Such chaos! Is he really that violent, or just very powerful? ROMESTAMO: Find him in a rotating sauna. I did think of using Ungoliant for the U clue, but I think I read somewhere that she might not have been an Ainu/Maia. Well done all, and especially Huinesoron! Over to you. :) |
I think Ungoliant was one of those features Tolkien never really integrated into the later conception of Middle-earth: she was first written as a primordial nature spirit, but didn't make the transition to Maiadom well.
Anyway! 1. - The darkness a pig had within. 2. - How can it be both bald and straight of hair? A nigh-insurmountable problem. 3. - You speak not truth, in truth! An elvish insult cut short. 4. - Binding the triple element within. 5. - The slave tumbles, black-winged but doubly deprived. 6. - ... or old women, it falls. Enjoy! hS |
4. - Binding the triple element within.
Might this relate to the Release from Bondage (Lay of LEITHIAN)?
Three elements plus in, perhaps? Ti, H, Al? |
No -- but some of those thoughts are along the right track. :)
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Maybe the theme is linguistic elements and the binding clue is linked to 'krimpatul' from 'Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.'
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Some of those thoughts are also on the right track. :D
('Some' should probably not be assumed to be plural here, though it could be; it means 'one or more'.) hS |
6. Possible connection to sharku or Sharkey = old man?
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That thought, however, is not. :(
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4. ANGAINOR?
Na + Ag + In (within) + O. There's a spare R, but .... |
I'm afraid not.
'Element' is singular. hS |
Burzum for the darkness clue. The sound of 'boar' for the pig. :D
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Clever, but no.
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Well, 5 seems to indicate Nazgul, deprived of ring and then of life. But the wings would seem to refer to its steed (the fell beast).
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Snaga means slave. There might be a way to get to Ancalagon ... losing 2 letters isn't a problem ... but there's a lot to add.
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No correct answers have been said. Nerwen is sort of poking in the right dorection, though.
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I'm afraid so. I might have missed one, but I don't think anyone has said a word which answers any of the clues yet.
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'Binding the triple' ... I can't think of a triumvirate, but I wonder if this could refer to the binding of three kindreds in blood in a child of mixed union. I think Dior is the first of these, but Elrond and even Eldarion (just) qualify.
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Whole elements tend to be long, and don't do well tripled. Unless it's not the element that is repeated thrice - but what then, "the" ? Thethethe. No one speaks with so many H's. Tripling is easier with single letter elements. There are a bunch of words that contain three Ns, for instance, but they don't make sense with the rest of the clue. |
The only other thing I had up my sleeve for 'binding' was HITHLAIN. It has Al and most of within, but ....
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