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06-11-2017, 05:00 AM | #2681 |
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Further update...
BERUTHIEL: From a very, very ancient and distant farmer's link with a disordered hobbit feast, a fabled wrangler of small carnivores emerges.
2. From beginning to end, go backwards to find a (somewhat) charitable fellow with a tendency to lose his head in a crisis. 3. I warmed milk, mixed well to find a sobriquet for a lordly victim of fatal misunderstanding. GRIMA: Take note from troubled vision- a Maia's bane is revealed. UGLUK: Sounds like that distant farmer's nephew followed an angry caveman, to find one of Middle-earth's leading gourmands. YRCH: Cry Havoc (but without Latin call- it is imperative!) and summon a chaotic horde. SHELOB: Add second option to a turbulent Hebraic Mandos, discover a great lady.
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06-11-2017, 12:47 PM | #2682 |
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2. Unconfidently going to suggest Denethor because it begins with sort of 'end' backwards and he sort of loses his head in a crisis. Although I think a dwarf was cruelly beheaded once, I can't remember his name.
Hang on ... is the password BAD GUYS?
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3. DWIMMERLAIK! Finally managed to unscramble it. Perhaps the fatal misunderstanding was of what one of the Nine Rings would do to him?
Edit: and I guess it was a fatal misunderstanding because it concerned (im)mortality. 2. I think ADANEDHEL, because Turin does lose his head in a crisis, but can't completely account for the letters. 'Fellow' could possibly be lad or adan - head is in there as well - and Turin is somewhat charitable ....
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#2. is not ADANEDHEL. The person in question- -lived much later than Turin -was more of a straight bad guy than the conflicted Mormegil -was not a major character (but played a significant historical role). The clues are all rather literal. "Somewhat generous" and "losing his head in a crisis" refer to specific happenings, not general character traits.
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06-11-2017, 09:21 PM | #2685 |
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I will give out more clues if needed, so we can wind this up. And Pervinca, sorry about the "Beru" thing.
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06-12-2017, 02:08 AM | #2686 |
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Hey, no worries. One thing I love about this thread is the new things I learn from it.
I will now look again at your clues and get my thinking cap on. I don't remember the warning of Glorfindel to the Nine ... is this in UT or HOME, or do you mean his appearance at the Ford as 'an Elf-lord revealed in his wrath?' EDIT: Your clues rule out a couple of other ideas I had for the answer. The best guess that leaves me with is AZOG, although he takes a head rather than losing one (Thror was the beheaded dwarf - I couldn't remember whether he was so close in kin to Thorin). Maybe Azog loses his head as well? And maybe Goza means something? He would fit the 'later than 1st age and minor but quite important' criteria. Plus he's an 'unconflicted bad guy,' as far as I know. Hmmmm ... the Urban Dictionary tells me that a goza is 1. A madman, or 2. A nice guy who occasionally acts like a troll. Other than that, it is also the name of a village in Pakistan and the Spanish for 'enjoy.'
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Thror was Thorin's grandfather, who (being by then a little touched in the head) tried to re-enter the goblin-occupied Moria with a companion called Nar. Azog chopped Thror's head off, branded his own name on his forehead and mockingly threw the "beggar-beard" Nar a small bag containing "a few coins of little worth" as his "fee" (for giving Thror's family the message that Azog was king in Moria). This sparked the War of the Dwarves and the Orcs, which culminated in the Battle of Azunalbizar (aka Dimrill Dale and Nanduhirion) in which Azog was beheaded by Dain as the Dwarves of the Iron Hills turned the tide of battle. (Appendix A: Durin's Folk). Quote:
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06-12-2017, 03:43 AM | #2688 |
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The Entire Rogues' Gallery...
BERUTHIEL: From a very, very ancient and distant farmer's link with a disordered hobbit feast, a fabled wrangler of small carnivores emerges.
AZOG: From beginning to end, go backwards to find a (somewhat) charitable fellow with a tendency to lose his head in a crisis. DWIMMERLAIK: I warmed milk, mixed well to find a sobriquet for a lordly victim of fatal misunderstanding. GRIMA: Take note from troubled vision- a Maia's bane is revealed. UGLUK: Sounds like that distant farmer's nephew followed an angry caveman, to find one of Middle-earth's leading gourmands. YRCH: Cry Havoc (but without Latin call- it is imperative!) and summon a chaotic horde. SHELOB: Add second option to a turbulent Hebraic Mandos, discover a great lady.
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06-12-2017, 04:22 AM | #2689 |
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Ah! I see. A-Z is 'from beginning to end' (I used my London A-Z yesterday - can't get along with Google Maps!), and then the word 'go' backwards?
Thanks for the synopsis, and also for some smashing clues (my favourite was the Dwimmerlaik one). I really did think they were impossible when I first saw them! Also big kudos for the thematic link. I find it very difficult to do that when composing a password. I think the only time I managed it was one where all the answers were Tooks. (EDIT: and my 'Ringbearers with an added loophole' one, but that was because Galadriel had just done a very similar one and given me the idea). Big kudos to Galadriel for solving UGLUK, too.
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Here you go!
1. Venture untruth and note well: be troubled, for here be webs of horror! 2. Swinger loses hesitation in a spin, but gets religion to reveal him. 3. Belly overstuffed in the valley? 4. She runs back and forth to meet a sailor; a most fair-seeming one!
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06-12-2017, 08:38 AM | #2692 |
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Would #4 be ANNATAR? "she runs back and forth" = palindromic female name + "sailor" = "tar"?
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Indeed it would! It was my second choice for your 'Azog' clue once I realised it would start with A but before you added the extra hints; he's certainly a bad guy and I wondered if the beginning and ending bit was a palindrome indicator. I was going to post this reasoning, but then realised if I didn't I could make my own clue out of it. Although I also thought the beginning and end AND bad guy elements might have had something to do with the 'rat' backwards at the end.
1. Venture untruth and note well: be troubled, for here be webs of horror! 2. Swinger loses hesitation in a spin, but gets religion to reveal him. 3. Belly overstuffed in the valley? ANNATAR: She runs back and forth to meet a sailor; a most fair-seeming one!
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So, I'm thinking #3. is TUMLADEN- "tum" (belly) + "laden" (overstuffed). No idea on the others yet.
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Correct!
1. Venture untruth and note well: be troubled, for here be webs of horror! 2. Swinger loses hesitation in a spin, but gets religion to reveal him. TUMLADEN: Belly overstuffed in the valley? ANNATAR: She runs back and forth to meet a sailor; a most fair-seeming one! Nerwen, what was the 'charitable fellow' aspect of Azog? EDIT: If anyone has any 'thoughts so far' on 1 or 2, just post them and I'll give a hint. 2 is a little obscure, but not unfindable; 1 is not obscure.
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If I'm close I'll be excited...
1. Mirkwood. Venture Untrouth Go-lie Goliath Note well, so remember the story of Goliath Place of webs So somewhere with spiders. I only remember one instance of a diminutive ($5 word for me) hero fending off spiders with stones... PS: I may or may not have accidentally hit report instead of reply... I think I backed out before it sent but... my report was this comment... posting from phone yay.
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Hi, Morsul! Did you use to post in this thread a few years ago? I have a feeling the first password I tried to solve here was one of yours!
Excellent try and nice reasoning. You have given the correct synonym for untruth: LIE = three of the letters of the clue. You need a different synonym for venture. Nothing to do with Goliath and Goliath is no element of the puzzle. 'Note well' is just a way of garnering some more letters. (Huge hint!) Not Mirkwood. Another hint ... perhaps I should have said (to make it easier) 'There *were* webs of horror.' As a Tolkien character does ....
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For #1, I am going to tentatively guess BELERIAND, which does contain "lie", and did contain some nasty arachnids- and IIRC is what's being specifically referenced in your latest quote. "B" or "A" or "E" could be the notes, but I'm not sure how the "venture" part comes into it. I also, by the way, looked at specific places in Beleriand and had a laugh about how over-the-top Tolkien's Eeevil location names can be: "Take a hike through the Forest Under Nightshade, over the Mountains of Terror and down into the Valley of Dreadful Death..."
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06-13-2017, 11:12 PM | #2699 |
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Wild(ish) guess: is the password AULË (diagonally from bottom right to top left)?
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BELERIAND: Venture untruth and note well: be troubled, for here be webs of horror!
- - L?????: Swinger loses hesitation in a spin, but gets religion to reveal him. TUMLADEN: Belly overstuffed in the valley? ANNATAR: She runs back and forth to meet a sailor; a most fair-seeming one! I wondered if you might see Aule from the bottom two answers. I am so sorry for not being attentive enough re. the Azog synopsis. 'Come! Let us see what Sting can do. It is an elven-blade. There were webs of horror in Beleriand where it was forged. But you must be the guard and hold back the eyes. Take the star-glass and do not be afraid. Hold it up! Watch!' I hear Ian Holm's voice when I imagine those words, even though the sentence about Beleriand and the webs of horror was cut from his speech. See if you can work out where the other letters come from ... it's not musical notes, but something we used a lot when writing notes when I was at school, as an abbreviation of 'note well.' Have a think about the 'venture' synonym ... I'll give the clue that it's a more 'adventurous' verb than the 'go' that Morsul suggested. SWINGER- I was pleased at how that sounded in the clue, although it isn't something with all the different possible answers that something like 'flower' or 'bloomer' or 'spanner' suggests. And I give the further clue that it's nothing to do with wife-swapping elves. Try to think of something that swings. AULE, as you correctly guessed, is the password.
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*slaps forehead*
Oh, of course! "N.B." and "dare"! How did I not see that before?
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They're always easy when you know the answer.
Or, 'Absurdly simple, like most riddles when you see the answer.'
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So - any ideas for the final clue? Shall I post a hint?
2. Swinger loses hesitation in a spin, but gets religion to reveal him.
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06-17-2017, 04:03 AM | #2704 |
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Yes, I think a hint may be in order.
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I know this is wrong but maybe it'll spark a thought for someone else.
I see swinger and immediately think Banadobras Took the hobbit that invented golf (Golf swing) Edit: PS Yes I used to be very active here ages ago(for a while I had highest posts per day.)
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06-17-2017, 06:46 AM | #2708 |
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No "L".
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06-17-2017, 06:56 AM | #2709 |
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Ivrin, the clue is a list of instructions, basically. I just haven't managed to come up with an answer that works.
I wonder if Morsul is right and "Brandobas" is part of the clue...
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I knew it was wrong because of the spelling it was just what came to mind and I figured it might help but I'm not sure
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Good idea, but the 'swinger' is the cryptic bit, designed to give you most of the letters, and is not in itself a character.
Start with someTHING that swings ... the etymology of the word perhaps suggests that it hangs rather than swings, but we associate the word, I think, more with swinging, even though it does both.
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Yes! Start off with pendulum.
BELERIAND: Venture untruth and note well: be troubled, for here be webs of horror! - - L?????: Swinger loses hesitation in a spin, but gets religion to reveal him. TUMLADEN: Belly overstuffed in the valley? ANNATAR: She runs back and forth to meet a sailor; a most fair-seeming one!
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At this point I'm just trying to help Nerwen...
Loses hesitation in a spin. So anagram and take away the P? P for pause
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They don't usually work that way. It'll be something that actually means, or indicates "hesitation". Could just be the "um" part.
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06-17-2017, 09:48 PM | #2716 |
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Let's try... PELENDUR
Pendulum ("swinger") - "Um..." (hesitation) + R.E. for Religious Education?
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Pallando
Pendulum-euum Find religion Alla Pallando Reveal him because the Blau wizards were lost. Did I mention I'm just the best at these? Hopefully Nerwen is right.
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BELERIAND: Venture untruth and note well: be troubled, for here be webs of horror!
PELENDUR: Swinger loses hesitation in a spin, but gets religion to reveal him. TUMLADEN: Belly overstuffed in the valley? ANNATAR: She runs back and forth to meet a sailor; a most fair-seeming one! Let's try... PELENDUR Pendulum ("swinger") - "Um..." (hesitation) + R.E. for Religious Education? Exactly right. Over to Nerwen!
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