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Pervinca Took · 05-05-2019, 01:23 PM

Already used?

Where?

Unless he's the I clue.

Urwen · 05-05-2019, 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

Already used?

Where?

Unless he's the I clue.

......

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

Pervinca Took · 05-05-2019, 02:00 PM

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

... checks again ...

Oh. Maeglin.

Pervinca Took · 05-05-2019, 02:13 PM

To get it on this page.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen

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
O: 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

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 04:27 AM

Bump

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 01:21 PM

Eriol as an oriel (window).

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 01:31 PM

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

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 01:37 PM

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.

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 01:54 PM

It's an archaic synonym.

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 02:35 PM

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.'

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

Yeah, but it's finding the letters. Also not easy whdn 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 ... 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,* 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?

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 02:55 PM

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

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

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

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

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 03:04 PM

Bilbo as Biblo (maybe writer?)

(Guessed without reading your hint).

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 03:04 PM

No.

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 03:06 PM

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.

William Cloud Hicklin · 05-07-2019, 03:08 PM

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

William Cloud Hicklin · 05-07-2019, 03:19 PM

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

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 03:20 PM

Fordo = Frodo.

Destroy the Ring.

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

William Cloud Hicklin · 05-07-2019, 03:21 PM

Oh, heck. FORDO, as in FORDONE.

Nice one, Urwen

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 03:23 PM

*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

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 03:25 PM

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.

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

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.

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

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.

Galadriel55 · 05-07-2019, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen

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?

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen

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

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.*

William Cloud Hicklin · 05-07-2019, 03:52 PM

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

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 04:01 PM

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

See you all tomorrow!

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 04:02 PM

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

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

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

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)

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 04:05 PM

C6H8O7?

(Citric acid).

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pervinca took

c6h8o7?

(citric acid).

c27h30o16

Galadriel55 · 05-07-2019, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen

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

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...

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 04:17 PM

MORMEGIL

has LIME
almost has MERGE
and MINGLE

Can anyone make something of this?

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 04:25 PM

Is S TULKAS? (Stalk).

Can't account for the U, though.

Urwen · 05-07-2019, 04:27 PM

c27h30o16

Galadriel55 · 05-07-2019, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

Can anyone make something of this?

Pervinca, google the chemical formula Urwen posted.

William Cloud Hicklin · 05-07-2019, 06:48 PM

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

William Cloud Hicklin · 05-07-2019, 06:54 PM

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)

Pervinca Took · 05-07-2019, 08:19 PM

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).

Nerwen · 05-07-2019, 09:54 PM

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

05-05-2019, 01:23 PM	#5281
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Already used? Where? Unless he's the I clue. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

05-05-2019, 02:00 PM	#5283
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Lomion is Eol, isn't it? Well, his wife and son are answers, but I don't see him. ... checks again ... Oh. Maeglin. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 05-05-2019 at 02:12 PM.

05-07-2019, 04:27 AM	#5285
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,388	Bump __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

05-07-2019, 01:21 PM	#5286
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Eriol as an oriel (window). __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

05-07-2019, 01:31 PM	#5287
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,388	Nope. The synonym used in the clue is seldom used. You're the champion of this thread, surely it isn't this difficult..... __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

05-07-2019, 01:37 PM	#5288
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	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. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

05-07-2019, 01:54 PM	#5289
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,388	It's an archaic synonym. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

05-07-2019, 02:35 PM	#5290
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	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.' __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 05-07-2019 at 02:41 PM.

05-07-2019, 02:55 PM	#5292
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Well, Barliman is an anagram of MAL BRAIN. But aside from not being a task, that's both cruel and a little unfair. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

05-07-2019, 03:04 PM	#5294
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Bilbo as Biblo (maybe writer?) (Guessed without reading your hint). __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

05-07-2019, 03:04 PM	#5295
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,388	No. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

05-07-2019, 03:06 PM	#5296
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	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. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

05-07-2019, 03:08 PM	#5297
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,322	If Denethor had a sideline as a pimp, he could be a HO-TENDER __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it. Last edited by William Cloud Hicklin; 05-07-2019 at 03:20 PM.

05-07-2019, 03:19 PM	#5298
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,322	Well, if the name is one listed verbatim in your post, the only one whose task was to destroy anything was Frodo. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

05-07-2019, 03:20 PM	#5299
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Fordo = Frodo. Destroy the Ring. To fordo ... like when Edmund was going to lie and say Cordelia 'fordid herself.' __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 05-07-2019 at 03:23 PM.

05-07-2019, 03:21 PM	#5300
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,322	Oh, heck. FORDO, as in FORDONE. Nice one, Urwen __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

05-07-2019, 03:23 PM	#5301
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,388	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 __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

05-07-2019, 03:25 PM	#5302
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	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. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 05-07-2019 at 03:30 PM.

05-07-2019, 03:52 PM	#5306
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,322	I don't know if titanium + ruthenium + nitrogen is a real alloy, but it yields a rather radioactive TURIN __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

05-07-2019, 04:01 PM	#5307
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Given what havoc a non-radioactive Turin can wreak, I will go to sleep with that rather disturbing thought! See you all tomorrow! __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

05-07-2019, 04:02 PM	#5308
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,388	It's a compound name, and the compound is found in several food types (most notably in citrus fruits) __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

05-07-2019, 04:05 PM	#5310
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	C6H8O7? (Citric acid). __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

05-07-2019, 04:17 PM	#5313
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	MORMEGIL has LIME almost has MERGE and MINGLE Can anyone make something of this? __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

05-07-2019, 04:25 PM	#5314
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Is S TULKAS? (Stalk). Can't account for the U, though. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

05-07-2019, 04:27 PM	#5315
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,388	c27h30o16 __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

05-07-2019, 06:48 PM	#5317
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,322	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 __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

05-07-2019, 06:54 PM	#5318
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,322	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) __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

05-07-2019, 08:19 PM	#5319
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	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). __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 05-07-2019 at 08:27 PM.

05-07-2019, 09:54 PM	#5320
Nerwen Wisest of the Noldor Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ Posts: 6,694	Well, unless Urwen's done a complete 180 I can't see Maedhros being on the list of her "favourites". __________________ "Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo.