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Pervinca Took · 10-01-2021, 04:36 PM

GROND: Some love departs from the south kingdom. It’s certainly left in turbulence by this. (3)
2. Pain without silence, directed to the centre of hell! Now see it! (4)
ORCRIST: Alternatively, Cynewulf’s poem will lead you to it. (3)
4. Stuff quaffed in Whitby? A secondary change will reveal it. (4)

Not ORCS, I'm afraid.

Urwen · 10-02-2021, 05:59 AM

Ouch?

Urwen · 10-02-2021, 06:03 AM

For 4, I searched and found 'beer' or 'wine'. So we change a second letter from one of those?

Pervinca Took · 10-02-2021, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen

For 4, I searched and found 'beer' or 'wine'. So we change a second letter from one of those?

Yes, one of those, and Whitby is known for a particular kind of festival - due, I believe, to its 'Dracula' connection.

Urwen · 10-02-2021, 01:01 PM

So the password isn't 'ouch' either, I assume?

Urwen · 10-02-2021, 01:08 PM

Goth festival? So something+Goth?

Pervinca Took · 10-02-2021, 02:55 PM

GROND: Some love departs from the south kingdom. It’s certainly left in turbulence by this. (3)
---U Pain without silence, directed to the centre of hell! Now see it! (4)
ORCRIST: Alternatively, Cynewulf’s poem will lead you to it. (3)
---H Stuff quaffed in Whitby? A secondary change will reveal it. (4)

Put GOTH first.

Urwen · 10-02-2021, 03:33 PM

Gothmog?

Pervinca Took · 10-03-2021, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen

For 4, I searched and found 'beer' or 'wine'. So we change a second letter from one of those?

Remember I said yes to this.

Just put GOTH first.

Urwen · 10-03-2021, 03:47 AM

Oh, Guthwine

Pervinca Took · 10-03-2021, 08:04 AM

GROND: Some love departs from the south kingdom. It’s certainly left in turbulence by this. (3)
---U Pain without silence, directed to the centre of hell! Now see it! (4)
ORCRIST: Alternatively, Cynewulf’s poem will lead you to it. (3)
GUTHWINE: Stuff quaffed in Whitby? A secondary change will reveal it. (4)

Urwen · 10-03-2021, 12:58 PM

Angurel (ANGUISH-SH+R+EL)

Pervinca Took · 10-03-2021, 01:21 PM

GROND: Some love departs from the south kingdom. It’s certainly left in turbulence by this. (3)
ANGUIREL: Pain without silence, directed to the centre of hell! Now see it! (4)
ORCRIST: Alternatively, Cynewulf’s poem will lead you to it. (3)
GUTHWINE: Stuff quaffed in Whitby? A secondary change will reveal it. (4)

Over to you.

Urwen · 10-03-2021, 02:07 PM

Kinda busy, so give me awhile.

Pervinca Took · 10-03-2021, 02:12 PM

No problem.

Urwen · 10-04-2021, 01:29 PM

I made a quick one

1. Naomi's other name; read backwards. Add an article, and there it is.
2. Dwarvish weapon surrounded by broken ham. Run past here.
3. Broken grain and returning rodent, here.
4. He's the Lord of the Dead...or two element symbols put together.

Huinesoron · 10-04-2021, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen

I made a quick one

1. Naomi's other name; read backwards. Add an article, and there it is.
2. Dwarvish weapon surrounded by broken ham. Run past here.
3. Broken grain and returning rodent, here.
4. He's the Lord of the Dead...or two element symbols put together.

#4 must surely be sodium molybdide... er, NaMo.

(Molybdide... [Shudders] That just sounds like an astoundingly bad idea. You think you're getting a nice stable salt, and instead you get molybdenum rapidly reacting with anything it can find. Eww.)

hS

Urwen · 10-05-2021, 07:09 AM

1. Naomi's other name; read backwards. Add an article, and there it is.
2. Dwarvish weapon surrounded by broken ham. Run past here.
3. Broken grain and returning rodent, here.
NAMO: He's the Lord of the Dead...or two element symbols put together.

Urwen · 10-07-2021, 07:44 AM

I thought this one is easy...

Galadriel55 · 10-07-2021, 09:11 AM

2. MAHANAXAR is almost AXE (weapon) + HAM + RAN (run, past).

Pervinca Took · 10-07-2021, 02:11 PM

Aman?

Urwen · 10-07-2021, 03:43 PM

A: Naomi's other name; read backwards. Add an article, and there it is.
MAHANAXAR: Dwarvish weapon surrounded by broken ham. Run past here.
A: Broken grain and returning rodent, here.
NAMO: He's the Lord of the Dead...or two element symbols put together.

Pervinca Took · 10-10-2021, 07:00 AM

ARATHAR has a backward RAT, an A and the RA of grain. Can't account for the H, though.

Urwen · 10-11-2021, 01:40 PM

No.

Pervinca Took · 10-13-2021, 06:44 AM

Trouble is, I have no idea which Naomi you mean. I'm not that immersed in pop culture these days.

Could the Naomi one be ALALMINORE?

Galadriel55 · 10-13-2021, 10:32 AM

I've assumed it's the Biblical Naomi, but I don't remember enough of the story to know her other names. Google however says that she was also named Mara, which turns into ARAMAN with "an" for the article.

Urwen · 10-14-2021, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

Trouble is, I have no idea which Naomi you mean. I'm not that immersed in pop culture these days.

Could the Naomi one be ALALMINORE?

The original one?

Huinesoron · 10-15-2021, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Urwen

The original one?

Naomi, like Lois (2 Timothy 1:5), is one of those names I can never quite believe is in the Bible. For my part I was stuck on Star Trek's Naomi Wildman, but was pretty sure she wasn't relevant.

Hoping that G55 has this one, so that leaves the returning rodent. Hrm.

How about AVALLONE? It contains VOLE, pluse... AALN. Is NALA a grain?

Alqualonde is also an A-place in Aman, but I can't find anything approaching a rodent in there.

hS

Urwen · 10-15-2021, 03:41 AM

No to Avallone

ARAMAN: Naomi's other name; read backwards. Add an article, and there it is.
MAHANAXAR: Dwarvish weapon surrounded by broken ham. Run past here.
A: Broken grain and returning rodent are mixed, here.
NAMO: He's the Lord of the Dead...or two element symbols put together.

Pervinca Took · 10-15-2021, 05:52 AM

ANNATAR would have come from Aman, and has a returning RAT. But ... it's a place we need.

Urwen · 10-15-2021, 06:04 AM

Sorry, edited that clue a bit.

Huinesoron · 10-15-2021, 06:43 AM

The best I've got so far for grain is that "Amon Amarth" contains an anagram of Amaranth.

A-places I can find that we haven't suggested for this clue so far, in case they inspire anyone:

- Alqualonde
- Alalminore
- Antaro
- Amon Uilos
- Arfanyaras(se)
- Afros

Actually I'm going to go ahead and guess ANTARO, the obscure mountain in southern Aman, because it has a backwards rat in it (though I can't find any anagram of ANO which relates to grain).

hS

Urwen · 10-15-2021, 09:33 AM

ARAMAN: Naomi's other name; read backwards. Add an article, and there it is.
MAHANAXAR: Dwarvish weapon surrounded by broken ham. Run past here.
ANTARO: Broken grain and returning rodent are mixed, here.
NAMO: He's the Lord of the Dead...or two element symbols put together.

And you know the drill.

Huinesoron · 10-15-2021, 12:36 PM

Oh cool. What was the grain though?

hS

Pervinca Took · 10-15-2021, 12:49 PM

Also curious about the grain.

And here's the next puzzle!

1. Silver fruit combines for another shiny thing.
2. Hang around in confusion, with eye turned to the Orient, so to speak, to see it.
3. Cambrian rebel, but no longer in debt, reveals it.
4. Lionheart and son of Njal! Change the fourth to find it.

Urwen · 10-15-2021, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huinesoron

Oh cool. What was the grain though?

hS

Oat

Huinesoron · 10-19-2021, 03:24 AM

So #3 intrigues me because the obvious ("obvious") Cambrian rebel is Owain Glyndwr, or Owen Glendower if you're Shakespeare and can't even spell your own name, let alone the Prince of Wales. I note that "Glendower" includes both "lend" and "ower", either of which could be removed to give...

Is it GLEND, the Sword of Nan? Always love it when Luthien's madcap spell comes into things.* ^_^

#4 is of course Rickard Skarphedin, with the fourth letter changed. ^_~ No, I don't know.

hS

* "and last and longest named she then / the endless hair of Uinen..." Is it significant, do you think, that Luthien happened to invoke as the divine patron of her spell a) a woman, who b) has her own story involving a man who all her relatives hated? Nah... just coincidence...

hS

Pervinca Took · 10-19-2021, 06:25 AM

1. Silver fruit combines for another shiny thing.
2. Hang around in confusion, with eye turned to the Orient, so to speak, to see it.
GLEND: Cambrian rebel, but no longer in debt, reveals it.
4. Lionheart and son of Njal! Change the fourth to find it.

Different Njalson.

And LIONHEART is a separate element.

Too much erudition for me, Huey - it's still only Tuesday!

Huinesoron · 10-26-2021, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

Too much erudition for me, Huey - it's still only Tuesday!

And now it is Tuesday again.

#4: Straight-up searching for "Njalson" gives me a couple of people on Facebook, plus "Helgi Njal's son" from the same saga as Skarphedin Njalsson. "Njal" itself is polluted by a fashion company, but then shows the saga and apparently something from Warhammer.

"Lionheart" still suggests Richard. Lion + Heart could be Leo + ... something. Or maybe "heart" is an instruction.

#1: Surely an anagram of words related to silver + fruit. Could be Ag + something.

#2: An anagrammed synoym for "hang around" with an I turned into an E (for East). Linger? Wait? Loiter? Wait, it's not LOTR:EE, is it?

hS

Pervinca Took · 10-26-2021, 06:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huinesoron

And now it is Tuesday again.

#4: Straight-up searching for "Njalson" gives me a couple of people on Facebook, plus "Helgi Njal's son" from the same saga as Skarphedin Njalsson. "Njal" itself is polluted by a fashion company, but then shows the saga and apparently something from Warhammer.

"Lionheart" still suggests Richard. Lion + Heart could be Leo + ... something. Or maybe "heart" is an instruction.

#1: Surely an anagram of words related to silver + fruit. Could be Ag + something.

#2: An anagrammed synoym for "hang around" with an I turned into an E (for East). Linger? Wait? Loiter? Wait, it's not LOTR:EE, is it?

hS

1. Njal had three sons (and a foster-son, but forget him for now).

2. Ag plus a fruit is right. Just find the fruit.

3. Linger is the correct starting-point.

4. A lionheart is a metaphorical expression for a what?

BIG HINT: The fruit is sometimes infused with gin, and appears in a cocktail with a rude name.

10-01-2021, 04:36 PM	#11721
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	GROND: Some love departs from the south kingdom. It’s certainly left in turbulence by this. (3) 2. Pain without silence, directed to the centre of hell! Now see it! (4) ORCRIST: Alternatively, Cynewulf’s poem will lead you to it. (3) 4. Stuff quaffed in Whitby? A secondary change will reveal it. (4) Not ORCS, I'm afraid. __________________ "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."

10-02-2021, 05:59 AM	#11722
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	Ouch? __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-02-2021, 06:03 AM	#11723
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	For 4, I searched and found 'beer' or 'wine'. So we change a second letter from one of those? __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-02-2021, 01:01 PM	#11725
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	So the password isn't 'ouch' either, I assume? __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-02-2021, 01:08 PM	#11726
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	Goth festival? So something+Goth? __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-02-2021, 02:55 PM	#11727
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	GROND: Some love departs from the south kingdom. It’s certainly left in turbulence by this. (3) ---U Pain without silence, directed to the centre of hell! Now see it! (4) ORCRIST: Alternatively, Cynewulf’s poem will lead you to it. (3) ---H Stuff quaffed in Whitby? A secondary change will reveal it. (4) Put GOTH first. __________________ "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."

10-02-2021, 03:33 PM	#11728
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	Gothmog? __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-03-2021, 03:47 AM	#11730
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	Oh, Guthwine __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-03-2021, 08:04 AM	#11731
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	GROND: Some love departs from the south kingdom. It’s certainly left in turbulence by this. (3) ---U Pain without silence, directed to the centre of hell! Now see it! (4) ORCRIST: Alternatively, Cynewulf’s poem will lead you to it. (3) GUTHWINE: Stuff quaffed in Whitby? A secondary change will reveal it. (4) __________________ "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."

10-03-2021, 12:58 PM	#11732
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	Angurel (ANGUISH-SH+R+EL) __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-03-2021, 01:21 PM	#11733
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	GROND: Some love departs from the south kingdom. It’s certainly left in turbulence by this. (3) ANGUIREL: Pain without silence, directed to the centre of hell! Now see it! (4) ORCRIST: Alternatively, Cynewulf’s poem will lead you to it. (3) GUTHWINE: Stuff quaffed in Whitby? A secondary change will reveal it. (4) Over to you. __________________ "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."

10-03-2021, 02:07 PM	#11734
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	Kinda busy, so give me awhile. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-03-2021, 02:12 PM	#11735
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	No problem. __________________ "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."

10-04-2021, 01:29 PM	#11736
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	I made a quick one 1. Naomi's other name; read backwards. Add an article, and there it is. 2. Dwarvish weapon surrounded by broken ham. Run past here. 3. Broken grain and returning rodent, here. 4. He's the Lord of the Dead...or two element symbols put together. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-05-2021, 07:09 AM	#11738
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	1. Naomi's other name; read backwards. Add an article, and there it is. 2. Dwarvish weapon surrounded by broken ham. Run past here. 3. Broken grain and returning rodent, here. NAMO: He's the Lord of the Dead...or two element symbols put together. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-07-2021, 07:44 AM	#11739
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	I thought this one is easy... __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-07-2021, 09:11 AM	#11740
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,402	2. MAHANAXAR is almost AXE (weapon) + HAM + RAN (run, past). __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

10-07-2021, 02:11 PM	#11741
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Aman? __________________ "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."

10-07-2021, 03:43 PM	#11742
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	A: Naomi's other name; read backwards. Add an article, and there it is. MAHANAXAR: Dwarvish weapon surrounded by broken ham. Run past here. A: Broken grain and returning rodent, here. NAMO: He's the Lord of the Dead...or two element symbols put together. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-10-2021, 07:00 AM	#11743
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	ARATHAR has a backward RAT, an A and the RA of grain. Can't account for the H, 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."

10-11-2021, 01:40 PM	#11744
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	No. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-13-2021, 06:44 AM	#11745
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Trouble is, I have no idea which Naomi you mean. I'm not that immersed in pop culture these days. Could the Naomi one be ALALMINORE? __________________ "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."

10-13-2021, 10:32 AM	#11746
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,402	I've assumed it's the Biblical Naomi, but I don't remember enough of the story to know her other names. Google however says that she was also named Mara, which turns into ARAMAN with "an" for the article. __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

10-15-2021, 03:41 AM	#11749
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	No to Avallone ARAMAN: Naomi's other name; read backwards. Add an article, and there it is. MAHANAXAR: Dwarvish weapon surrounded by broken ham. Run past here. A: Broken grain and returning rodent are mixed, here. NAMO: He's the Lord of the Dead...or two element symbols put together. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia. Last edited by Urwen; 10-15-2021 at 06:04 AM.

10-15-2021, 05:52 AM	#11750
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	ANNATAR would have come from Aman, and has a returning RAT. But ... it's a place we need. __________________ "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."

10-15-2021, 06:04 AM	#11751
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	Sorry, edited that clue a bit. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-15-2021, 06:43 AM	#11752
Huinesoron Overshadowed Eagle Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: The north-west of the Old World, east of the Sea Posts: 3,910	The best I've got so far for grain is that "Amon Amarth" contains an anagram of Amaranth. A-places I can find that we haven't suggested for this clue so far, in case they inspire anyone: - Alqualonde - Alalminore - Antaro - Amon Uilos - Arfanyaras(se) - Afros Actually I'm going to go ahead and guess ANTARO, the obscure mountain in southern Aman, because it has a backwards rat in it (though I can't find any anagram of ANO which relates to grain). hS __________________ Have you burned the ships that could bear you back again? ~Finrod: The Rock Opera

10-15-2021, 09:33 AM	#11753
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,387	ARAMAN: Naomi's other name; read backwards. Add an article, and there it is. MAHANAXAR: Dwarvish weapon surrounded by broken ham. Run past here. ANTARO: Broken grain and returning rodent are mixed, here. NAMO: He's the Lord of the Dead...or two element symbols put together. And you know the drill. __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

10-15-2021, 12:36 PM	#11754
Huinesoron Overshadowed Eagle Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: The north-west of the Old World, east of the Sea Posts: 3,910	Oh cool. What was the grain though? hS __________________ Have you burned the ships that could bear you back again? ~Finrod: The Rock Opera

10-15-2021, 12:49 PM	#11755
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Also curious about the grain. And here's the next puzzle! 1. Silver fruit combines for another shiny thing. 2. Hang around in confusion, with eye turned to the Orient, so to speak, to see it. 3. Cambrian rebel, but no longer in debt, reveals it. 4. Lionheart and son of Njal! Change the fourth to find it. __________________ "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."

10-19-2021, 03:24 AM	#11757
Huinesoron Overshadowed Eagle Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: The north-west of the Old World, east of the Sea Posts: 3,910	So #3 intrigues me because the obvious ("obvious") Cambrian rebel is Owain Glyndwr, or Owen Glendower if you're Shakespeare and can't even spell your own name, let alone the Prince of Wales. I note that "Glendower" includes both "lend" and "ower", either of which could be removed to give... Is it GLEND, the Sword of Nan? Always love it when Luthien's madcap spell comes into things.* ^_^ #4 is of course Rickard Skarphedin, with the fourth letter changed. ^_~ No, I don't know. hS * "and last and longest named she then / the endless hair of Uinen..." Is it significant, do you think, that Luthien happened to invoke as the divine patron of her spell a) a woman, who b) has her own story involving a man who all her relatives hated? Nah... just coincidence... hS __________________ Have you burned the ships that could bear you back again? ~Finrod: The Rock Opera

10-19-2021, 06:25 AM	#11758
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	1. Silver fruit combines for another shiny thing. 2. Hang around in confusion, with eye turned to the Orient, so to speak, to see it. GLEND: Cambrian rebel, but no longer in debt, reveals it. 4. Lionheart and son of Njal! Change the fourth to find it. Different Njalson. And LIONHEART is a separate element. Too much erudition for me, Huey - it's still only Tuesday! __________________ "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."