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2: Glorfindel. FROG + LINDEN anagram
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3. Tuor, from TOUR?
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GALDOR: Behold, cross-dressing, an elf spins round!
GLORFINDEL: Amphibian hops around a Berlin street? See him change direction and turn! 3. He might drive around, alternatively. 4. You'll see his bonds, if you pluralise him. 5. He's Wise, but limited. Old, too. With a flair for light entertainment? Let this unfold! No to Tuor. No to Lords of Gondolin. Correct regarding Glorfindel, plus one of the N's changes to another L, for 'change direction.' Bill, please tell me the answer to your clue 4a, and was 'REB' a term for a Confederate soldier? It was an excellent first password. Themed ones aren't always easy to create, but they're fun.
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GALDOR: Behold, cross-dressing, an elf spins round!
GLORFINDEL: Amphibian hops around a Berlin street? See him change direction and turn! ???O???: He might drive around, alternatively. ???I???: You'll see his bonds, if you pluralise him. ???N???: He's Wise, but limited. Old, too. With a flair for light entertainment? Let this unfold! GLOIN it is!
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5. Huan?
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04-22-2019, 08:22 AM | #5128 |
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No. I left out a set of ??? by mistake.
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Then it must be the Council attendees, again.
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Yes, but with a slight difference.
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04-22-2019, 10:21 AM | #5131 |
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5: Gandalf. No wordgames, just straight definition: one of the Wise, limited in his powers as an Istar, definitely old, and makes entertainment with light (fireworks)
Council attendees with names beginning in G?
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04-22-2019, 10:24 AM | #5132 |
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Pervinca: yes, "Reb" was a term for a confederate rebel.
4a: HIRGON; gender-bend "Him gone" with poor spelling
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Not Gandalf; not G-initial names. (Love the interpretation of light entertainment, though!)
Thanks for the explanations!
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04-22-2019, 01:50 PM | #5134 |
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Members of the Council who are Elves?
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04-22-2019, 03:27 PM | #5135 |
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No.
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3: "alternatively" gets us back to or or nor, and inevitably around to Erestor again. But I don't see it, unless "drive" = STREET and one loses the extra T somehow.
Or, thin reed, "drive" = LED, which with NOR gives ELROND
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GALDOR: Behold, cross-dressing, an elf spins round!
GLORFINDEL: Amphibian hops around a Berlin street? See him change direction and turn! ERESTOR: He might drive around, alternatively. ???I???: You'll see his bonds, if you pluralise him. ???N???: He's Wise, but limited. Old, too. With a flair for light entertainment? Let this unfold! Very close. It's 'steer' for drive. Your guess and explanation for the last clue were so brilliant (whilst also fitting the clue pretty much perfectly) that I will give a further hint: the 'light entertainment' in the last clue refers to an entertainer who was part of a double-act that was huge in the UK, but possibly little known beyond these shores. I think it was you who gave me the idea for the theme of this password, from a comment you made on the theme of my last one.
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5: Elrond. Ernie Wise, of duo Morecambe and Wise, limited to ERN, + OLD
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GALDOR: Behold, cross-dressing, an elf spins round!
GLORFINDEL: Amphibian hops around a Berlin street? See him change direction and turn! ERESTOR: He might drive around, alternatively. BILBO: You'll see his bonds, if you pluralise him. ELROND: He's Wise, but limited. Old, too. With a flair for light entertainment? Let this unfold! THEME: PEOPLE PRESENT AT THE COUNCIL OF ELROND WHO DID NOT JOIN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING OR GO ON THE QUEST TO DESTROY THE RING. I would have saved this very similarly themed password for later, but my laptop is kaputt and I can't access its files yet to get at my stash of prepared passwords. Anyway, over to Urwen!
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Then, members of Council who weren't in the Fellowship?
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4. Bilbo?
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04-23-2019, 05:56 AM | #5142 |
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By elimination, 4 would have to be Bilbo, but I'm not seeing it yet. It could also be Baggins.
Elrond Erestor Glorfindel Bilbo Baggins Gloin Galdor IIRC, thats all the named attendees who didn't march off for Hollin.
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Well, 'Bilboes' is an anagram of 'lobbies', but I'm not sure how that's a synonym for 'bonds'. By way of politics, maybe - a politician is metaphorically bound to the lobbyists she listens to?
Of course, there's always 'barrels out of bond', and barrels are tied to the name Bilbo by Shakespearean reference - but Balfrog hasn't been around for quite some time, so we can probably rule that out. Is there a useful anagram of 'Bagginses' (which we all know to be the correct plural)? hS |
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Okay, if there were some mechanism there for substituting I for H, HOBBLES -> IOBBLES is an anagram for BILBOES.
Unless there's some connection between HOBBLES and HOBBITS? Bilbo "pluralized", could mean that.
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It is a word I first learned from Shakespeare, but from 'Hamlet' :-
'Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep. Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.' (Or something very similar to that). The bilboes were apparently fetters in the form of an iron bar that both feet were shackled to. Hamlet is referring to the mutineers of the ship he is on, lying below deck in irons. I meant literally 'in bonds.' Not like barrels before their release. And looking it up confirmed that bilboes only exist in the plural form. There is a single noun bilbo, but I think it means a sword.
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As you will see, I pressed Edit instead of Quote by accident, so am just copying my post again here.
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Here is another one with a theme.
1. A spun tree is followed by a pronoun and a backward element. She appears. 2. A cover and an element circulate for her 3. A broken rule surrounds a pronoun for her 4. A product of a storm circulates for her 5. An article, a color, and a dark goddess. Put them together for her. 6. An alloy, abbreviated. An avian extremity. She appears.
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1. MELIAN.
ELM (spun) + I + Na backwards.
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4. RIAN.
(From 'rain.')
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Right
MELIAN: A spun tree is followed by a pronoun and a backward element. She appears.
2. A cover and an element circulate for her 3. A broken rule surrounds a pronoun for her RIAN: A product of a storm circulates for her 5. An article, a color, and a dark goddess. Put them together for her. 6. An alloy, abbreviated. An avian extremity. She appears.
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5. A + red + hel.
Aredhel.
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Password: MIRIEL?
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MELIAN: A spun tree is followed by a pronoun and a backward element. She appears.
I???: A cover and an element circulate for her ???R???: A broken rule surrounds a pronoun for her RIAN: A product of a storm circulates for her AREDHEL: An article, a color, and a dark goddess. Put them together for her. ???L???: An alloy, abbreviated. An avian extremity. She appears.
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Unfortunate mothers? Died young themselves or lost a child?
B(ee) end an allo = Belladonna?
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Wrong on both counts.
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Belladonna is wrong as well?
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2. Idril. LID plus Ir(idium)
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Ohhhh yes! I had convinced myself there was an Isilde, and there isn't.
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Queens and princesses of the first age?
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6. Elwing. El(ectrum) plus WING
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