Tolkien's Letters - Page 15 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Firefoot · 05-02-2005, 04:11 PM

Nimrodel!

Seems there's more than one identity-confused Elf wandering around here!

NightKnight · 05-03-2005, 03:58 AM

Must be, eh? It's your turn, anyway.

Firefoot · 05-03-2005, 03:29 PM

Be hasty now, for there's something you don't see every day:

Lo, Hard Fast Ent.

piosenniel · 05-06-2005, 11:27 AM

Land of the Star, perhaps . . .

NightKnight · 05-13-2005, 12:16 PM

Firefoot?

piosenniel · 05-14-2005, 01:33 AM

I'll go ahead and pose an anagram. I can remove it if my previous solution was incorrect:

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Raise d' alarm!! Ring d' bells!!! It's NightKnight's birthday!

~*~ Pio

Firefoot · 05-14-2005, 06:29 AM

Sorry, I forgot about this game. You were correct, pio.

piosenniel · 05-15-2005, 10:43 PM

Bringing this forward:

Raise d' alarm!! Ring d' bells!!! It's NightKnight's birthday!

NightKnight · 05-16-2005, 06:17 AM

And the party's in Ramdal!

piosenniel · 05-16-2005, 09:49 AM

Exactly!

Carry on!

~*~ Pio

NightKnight · 05-17-2005, 12:23 PM

Thank you.

I think people wanting to be elves need to make elven ID.

piosenniel · 05-23-2005, 12:32 PM

Lake Evendim

~*~ Pio

NightKnight · 05-25-2005, 01:54 PM

Exactly! Your turn, pio.

piosenniel · 05-26-2005, 08:37 PM

Gazing with awe on the brightness of Goldberry's laundry, the wandering Ranger/Laundryman was moved to point out the line to his companions where the soft and fluffy and dazzling white towels hung . . .

Seen her towels, men?!

piosenniel · 06-03-2005, 01:55 AM

Hmmm . . . how about I give a hint.

Theoden's mother was often referred to in this manner.

~*~ Pio

Rimbaud · 06-03-2005, 03:08 AM

That'll be Morwen Steelsheen then, at a pinch.

piosenniel · 06-03-2005, 09:17 AM

Exactly! Take the helm, if you will . . .

~*~ Pio

Nilpaurion Felagund · 07-18-2005, 10:55 PM

The round pens.

Rimbaud · 09-22-2005, 05:01 AM

I think you are trying for the North Undeep, of which there is but one*. Or am I wrong?

~R

*There were two Undeeps, for sure, but only one that was North. T'other was the smaller, the South Undeep.

Nilpaurion Felagund · 09-28-2005, 07:36 PM

Yes, it was the North Undeeps.

Your thread.

Rimbaud · 09-29-2005, 04:48 AM

In the supermarkets of Middle Earth, war rages in the fizzy drink aisles. Indeed, rack foes have Lilt.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 09-29-2005, 12:29 PM

I have a sneaking suspicion that the answer you seek is Sickle of the Valar.

Rimbaud · 09-29-2005, 02:23 PM

Subtle in its attempts to avoid detection, your most surreptitious of suspicions is nevertheless in grave danger of vulgar discovery through this most brash and indeed brassy of vindications. The floor, sir, if I am not bestowing too great a gift, is yours!

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 09-29-2005, 03:23 PM

Unaccustomed as I am to allow myself the unprecedented vulgarity of an admission to having correctly divined the solution to so prettily puzzling a problem, I thought as much.

I shall endeavour, sir, to prove my humble self worthy of your princely, nay imperial, gift. Truly for such a floor as this have palaces been raised and myriad hovels razed.

Without further ado, then - and naturally with a less than hesitant address to brevity - I shall proceed to lay before this august assembly an aptly agreeable anagram.

An admirable admonition, this: Rein in grog fads

Rimbaud · 09-29-2005, 05:08 PM

Indeed, sir, what wonders you have raised from my most humble consideration. None other than the dread tower Orthanc, smooth-wrought and haughty, as it is encircled by the peculiarly non-traversable Ring of Isengard.

Sir, such is my unbounded honour at having so edifying an edifice entertain my capricious gift of floor, my nerveless frame shudders at the crass behaviour displayed by offering such a low gift again, so, may Jove and the Pemberton-Wolneys forgive me, but I must set my pickled grey matter to some great Scheme to foil any comfortable interpretation.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 09-30-2005, 12:54 PM

As I believe the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge once very aptly put it, "yes".

You have, sir, correctly divined the nub of my enciphered gist, which indeed concerns the setting for that glassy edifice which was home to such wisdom and folly. Pray conjure us a conundrum of cunning complexity.

Rimbaud · 10-11-2005, 07:49 AM

As a gentleman, sir, you will no doubt be pleasantly unaware of the Seething Underbelly of our great Town, where I hear in the area known as 'the Docks' (how earthy!) that there are wharf love rites sold.

Dare I presume upon you sir, in your capacity as a Man of the World, to conjure for us a solution to this Sordid Conundrum.

Rimbaud · 10-21-2005, 09:41 AM

Well anyone else can too, it's not that hard...

NightKnight · 10-26-2005, 10:23 AM

I find it pretty hard anyway, so a little hintssses might be welcome, if I may be so bold.

Rimbaud · 10-27-2005, 07:46 AM

Vertically challenged folks and where they live.

piosenniel · 10-31-2005, 12:51 PM

I'm stumped . . . but not without an answer, wrong as it might be:

As far as I can figure out - these are homeless Dwarves -- probably displaced since Beleriand sank; a lost clan - the Fardrivers. Modern day finds them living in France, in small trucks set low to the ground, selling garden statuary to elderly ladies of modest financial persuasion (the ladies, that is, not the Dwarves - they are quite wealthy, but hide it well)

My answer, therefore is:

~*~ L' Dwarves of the Loris ~*~

which is utterly in error, of course, but the best I could do at the moment . . .

~*~ Pio

Rimbaud · 11-01-2005, 03:51 AM

For goodness sake, I muttered. It's not that hard. Where's that piece of paper with my notes. Here we go. Right - d, w, a, r, v, e, s, o, f, t, h, e....

So far so good. What's wrong with these people? Um. Hang on. Not even I can make Iron Hills out of i,l,l,o,r,s. Hmm. I missed out a word. Simple mistake, no-one can blame me for that. Such a small word... In.

Ah. And an H.

Hmm. Back away slowly 'baud, the thread is pio's for treating this blunder with casual good humour...

*the whispers of the fleeing Rimbaud echo mournfully down the halls of shame*

Rimbaud · 11-16-2005, 10:46 AM

Come now, come now. A much missed poster, nay a billboard of such luminosity is he, reminded me that although my folly here has been great, the show must continue.

This humble warthog that I am would offer the thread out again, but instead I'll tender a morsel so tender that all will tender to tend to the tending of it.

On glueing the coloured seed to his shirt,the hobbit laughed in a merrisome way. For now, he had a pip pin. Answers in a post please.

Nilpaurion Felagund · 12-05-2005, 02:24 AM

Pippin, perchance?

Rimbaud · 12-05-2005, 05:14 AM

That's fast work, Nilp.

The thread is all yours, so please post something riotously difficult

Nilpaurion Felagund · 12-07-2005, 04:55 AM

Th' hard root on us!

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 12-07-2005, 12:38 PM

I wouldn't say that the North-South Road was a particularly hard route, although how it does as a root is anybody's guess.

Nilpaurion Felagund · 12-09-2005, 02:15 AM

Must have been an odd accent!

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 12-12-2005, 05:08 AM

Routed by divergent phonology: once more my nemesis strikes down one of my utterances.

Fortunately the solution to this puzzle should transcend dialect.

ed. hated drool

Nilpaurion Felagund · 01-12-2006, 08:08 PM

If you dare the peril of Dor Daedaloth, you need not a dialect. Or anything else, for that matter.

05-03-2005, 03:58 AM	#562
NightKnight Lost among the Stars Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hiding in Childhood (Sweden) Posts: 2,690	Must be, eh? It's your turn, anyway. __________________ There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who can't.

05-06-2005, 11:27 AM	#564
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Land of the Star, perhaps . . . __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

05-13-2005, 12:16 PM	#565
NightKnight Lost among the Stars Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hiding in Childhood (Sweden) Posts: 2,690	*Bump* Firefoot? __________________ There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who can't.

05-14-2005, 01:33 AM	#566
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	I'll go ahead and pose an anagram. I can remove it if my previous solution was incorrect: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raise d' alarm!! Ring d' bells!!! It's NightKnight's birthday! ~*~ Pio __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

05-15-2005, 10:43 PM	#568
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Bringing this forward: Raise d' alarm!! Ring d' bells!!! It's NightKnight's birthday! __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

05-02-2005, 04:11 PM	#561
Firefoot Illusionary Holbytla Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 7,547	Nimrodel! Seems there's more than one identity-confused Elf wandering around here!

05-03-2005, 03:29 PM	#563
Firefoot Illusionary Holbytla Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 7,547	Be hasty now, for there's something you don't see every day: Lo, Hard Fast Ent.

05-14-2005, 06:29 AM	#567
Firefoot Illusionary Holbytla Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 7,547	Sorry, I forgot about this game. You were correct, pio.

05-16-2005, 06:17 AM	#569
NightKnight Lost among the Stars Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hiding in Childhood (Sweden) Posts: 2,690	And the party's in Ramdal! __________________ There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who can't.

05-16-2005, 09:49 AM	#570
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Exactly! Carry on! ~*~ Pio __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

05-17-2005, 12:23 PM	#571
NightKnight Lost among the Stars Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hiding in Childhood (Sweden) Posts: 2,690	Thank you. I think people wanting to be elves need to make elven ID. __________________ There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who can't.

05-23-2005, 12:32 PM	#572
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Lake Evendim ~*~ Pio __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

05-25-2005, 01:54 PM	#573
NightKnight Lost among the Stars Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hiding in Childhood (Sweden) Posts: 2,690	Exactly! Your turn, pio. __________________ There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who can't.

05-26-2005, 08:37 PM	#574
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Gazing with awe on the brightness of Goldberry's laundry, the wandering Ranger/Laundryman was moved to point out the line to his companions where the soft and fluffy and dazzling white towels hung . . . Seen her towels, men?! __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

06-03-2005, 01:55 AM	#575
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Hmmm . . . how about I give a hint. Theoden's mother was often referred to in this manner. ~*~ Pio __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

06-03-2005, 03:08 AM	#576
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	That'll be Morwen Steelsheen then, at a pinch. __________________ And all the rest is literature

06-03-2005, 09:17 AM	#577
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Exactly! Take the helm, if you will . . . ~*~ Pio __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

07-18-2005, 10:55 PM	#578
Nilpaurion Felagund Scion of The Faithful Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The brink, where hope and despair are akin. [The Philippines] Posts: 5,312	Taking the metaphorical helm . . . The round pens. __________________ フェンリス鴨 (Fenrisu Kamo) The plot, cut, defeated. I intend to copy this sig forever - so far so good...

09-22-2005, 05:01 AM	#579
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	I think you are trying for the North Undeep, of which there is but one. Or am I wrong? ~R There were two Undeeps, for sure, but only one that was North. T'other was the smaller, the South Undeep. __________________ And all the rest is literature

09-28-2005, 07:36 PM	#580
Nilpaurion Felagund Scion of The Faithful Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The brink, where hope and despair are akin. [The Philippines] Posts: 5,312	Sorry for the delay. Yes, it was the North Undeeps. Your thread. __________________ フェンリス鴨 (Fenrisu Kamo) The plot, cut, defeated. I intend to copy this sig forever - so far so good...

09-29-2005, 04:48 AM	#581
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	In the supermarkets of Middle Earth, war rages in the fizzy drink aisles. Indeed, rack foes have Lilt. __________________ And all the rest is literature

09-29-2005, 12:29 PM	#582
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	Only to be reconciled by stargazing I have a sneaking suspicion that the answer you seek is Sickle of the Valar. __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

09-29-2005, 02:23 PM	#583
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	Subtle in its attempts to avoid detection, your most surreptitious of suspicions is nevertheless in grave danger of vulgar discovery through this most brash and indeed brassy of vindications. The floor, sir, if I am not bestowing too great a gift, is yours! __________________ And all the rest is literature

09-29-2005, 03:23 PM	#584
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	A poser with a paucity of preamble Unaccustomed as I am to allow myself the unprecedented vulgarity of an admission to having correctly divined the solution to so prettily puzzling a problem, I thought as much. I shall endeavour, sir, to prove my humble self worthy of your princely, nay imperial, gift. Truly for such a floor as this have palaces been raised and myriad hovels razed. Without further ado, then - and naturally with a less than hesitant address to brevity - I shall proceed to lay before this august assembly an aptly agreeable anagram. An admirable admonition, this: Rein in grog fads __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

09-29-2005, 05:08 PM	#585
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	Indeed, sir, what wonders you have raised from my most humble consideration. None other than the dread tower Orthanc, smooth-wrought and haughty, as it is encircled by the peculiarly non-traversable Ring of Isengard. Sir, such is my unbounded honour at having so edifying an edifice entertain my capricious gift of floor, my nerveless frame shudders at the crass behaviour displayed by offering such a low gift again, so, may Jove and the Pemberton-Wolneys forgive me, but I must set my pickled grey matter to some great Scheme to foil any comfortable interpretation. __________________ And all the rest is literature

09-30-2005, 12:54 PM	#586
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	Verb sap, but I have need of many As I believe the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge once very aptly put it, "yes". You have, sir, correctly divined the nub of my enciphered gist, which indeed concerns the setting for that glassy edifice which was home to such wisdom and folly. Pray conjure us a conundrum of cunning complexity. __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

10-11-2005, 07:49 AM	#587
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	Sapping verbs make the wise words weep As a gentleman, sir, you will no doubt be pleasantly unaware of the Seething Underbelly of our great Town, where I hear in the area known as 'the Docks' (how earthy!) that there are wharf love rites sold. Dare I presume upon you sir, in your capacity as a Man of the World, to conjure for us a solution to this Sordid Conundrum. __________________ And all the rest is literature

10-21-2005, 09:41 AM	#588
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	Well anyone else can too, it's not that hard... __________________ And all the rest is literature

10-26-2005, 10:23 AM	#589
NightKnight Lost among the Stars Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hiding in Childhood (Sweden) Posts: 2,690	I find it pretty hard anyway, so a little hintssses might be welcome, if I may be so bold. __________________ There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who can't.

10-27-2005, 07:46 AM	#590
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	How's this? Vertically challenged folks and where they live. __________________ And all the rest is literature

10-31-2005, 12:51 PM	#591
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	I'm stumped . . . but not without an answer, wrong as it might be: As far as I can figure out - these are homeless Dwarves -- probably displaced since Beleriand sank; a lost clan - the Fardrivers. Modern day finds them living in France, in small trucks set low to the ground, selling garden statuary to elderly ladies of modest financial persuasion (the ladies, that is, not the Dwarves - they are quite wealthy, but hide it well) My answer, therefore is: ~~ L' Dwarves of the Loris ~~ which is utterly in error, of course, but the best I could do at the moment . . . ~*~ Pio __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

11-01-2005, 03:51 AM	#592
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	Mea culpa For goodness sake, I muttered. It's not that hard. Where's that piece of paper with my notes. Here we go. Right - d, w, a, r, v, e, s, o, f, t, h, e.... So far so good. What's wrong with these people? Um. Hang on. Not even I can make Iron Hills out of i,l,l,o,r,s. Hmm. I missed out a word. Simple mistake, no-one can blame me for that. Such a small word... In. Ah. And an H. Hmm. Back away slowly 'baud, the thread is pio's for treating this blunder with casual good humour... the whispers of the fleeing Rimbaud echo mournfully down the halls of shame __________________ And all the rest is literature

11-16-2005, 10:46 AM	#593
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	Euthanasia for Eustacia would be a drag, sighed Saki Come now, come now. A much missed poster, nay a billboard of such luminosity is he, reminded me that although my folly here has been great, the show must continue. This humble warthog that I am would offer the thread out again, but instead I'll tender a morsel so tender that all will tender to tend to the tending of it. On glueing the coloured seed to his shirt,the hobbit laughed in a merrisome way. For now, he had a pip pin. Answers in a post please.

12-05-2005, 02:24 AM	#594
Nilpaurion Felagund Scion of The Faithful Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The brink, where hope and despair are akin. [The Philippines] Posts: 5,312	Such a conundrum . . . Pippin, perchance? __________________ フェンリス鴨 (Fenrisu Kamo) The plot, cut, defeated. I intend to copy this sig forever - so far so good...

12-05-2005, 05:14 AM	#595
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	Absolutely That's fast work, Nilp. The thread is all yours, so please post something riotously difficult