Thank you - I did affect my best "Noo yoik" accent as I read through the members list... ;)

My clue ideas seem to fall in to two categories - the glaringly obvious and those that indicate my warped and tortuous thought processes....

Ave! You were not singing 'in excelsis'.

Alcarillo and his (her??) Latin sig....

Either that, or it's Firefoot... But Alcarillo is my official guess.

its probaly Firefoot

It is neither and I can see little connection with your guesses ... but the Latin might be worth investigation ;) As might spanish...

Spanish?
 

Fea?

I have decided that this is a hideous clue and to salve my conscience I will give you a couple of clues.

1, It refers to a downers personal title

2, if you translate Ave first from Latin then from Spanish you will have most of the context of the original source of the PT

If that isn't enough I will give you a very google-able clue but see how you do with those....

Imladris?

It is a bird reference but a literary not a mythological one....

Is there any reason at all for Birdland to be running through my head so often right now?

PS: or Gwaihir the Windlord, though I doubt myself quite a lot on both.

OK... Remember it is a personla title.

"singing 'in excelsis'" gives a clue to which bird you are looking for.

I have thought long and hard, and scoured the members list in all sorts of ways. But I must admit: I am...utterly at a loss.

OK same answer but much simpler clue.


"Madame Arcati's contact"

Oooooh. Gotcha. Lalaith.

Thank goodness for that!

Lalaith's Personal Title is "Blithe Spirit" . To explain the second clue first. Blithe Spirit is the title of a play by Noel Coward featuring a medium called Madam Arcati. However the phrase originally comes from the first line of a Poem called "Ode to a Sky Lark" by P.B.Shelley

"Hail to thee Blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,"

So

Ave! You were not singing 'in excelsis'.

Ave is Hail in latin and Bird in Spanish. Singing in Excelsis (on high) is what Skylarks are known for......

This seems to easy to be true. Lily Bombadil?

i don't think thats her... Holbytlass?

It is indeed to easy to be true. Neither answer is correct.

I'm probably incorrect but I'm thinking of Sophia the Thunder Mistress

At least you're right in thinking that you're wrong...

Hint: Fea points lovingly to her cheek.

Okay. I know when a hint is in store. It's a multi-part clue. Figure out the last part and then figure out the result of it.

Then remember that I already said it was a bit cheeky of me to do.

Sorry, just thought I'd throw that in, it seemed appropriate at Fea's allusions to her cheek and to lilly of the valley - even if I really am not sure about what she means...:)

Ok, as for my guess...again, I would have said Sophia the Thunder Mistress, although I admit that I am puzzled by your apparent 'cheekiness'. Is it something to do with La Langue des Fleurs at all?

If it is, it's unintentionally so. Aman, you'll kill me if I say that the clue is vaguely cryptic... so I'll just allude to it being that way. :)

You...!

There are no words.

*sighs and resumes looking*

Well...May.

(Is this clue just cryptic, or actually...'Cryptic'? (oh, how that capital pains me, it hurts us so it does, precious...))

I think I've got it. Tigerlily Gamgee, whose birthday is in May. :D

maybe there's more? attachment = tie Ti(in Tigerlily)
:p

Not Tig. Aman's closer, what with her May-flower.

May-flower...maybe this is a bit far-fetched and I'm picking up the wrong thing entirely here, but would that be a hint at the Mayflower, the ship that took the Pilgrim fathers from England to Massachussets in the early 17th century? If so, then maybe Nuranar? She wrote rather eloquently on it as a subject, and does have a particular fondness for American history...(I would say Gurthang but, well, he ain't a she...)

Anywhere close, at all? I'm running dry on any ideas at all, and this is the thought that struck. Otherwise, if I'm near (which I doubt - far fetched would be a euphemism), maybe...Bethberry? I don't know, I'm hopeless! A downer from Massachussets?

Aman, you are so close that I want to cry in relief at the nearness and have hysterics at the wrongness.

Yes, Mayflower. Yes, pilgrims. No Nuranar.

Mithalwen

Pligrim Soul

Plus cheeky because she was the host right before you.

Yes!

YES!!!!!

I'm so happy somebody got the cheeky part! Poor Aman... I swear (and this time I'll keep my word, promise) that I'll stop doing cryptic stuff.

Okay this is my first ever so please be patient. I have a very difficult one but I will wait on that one and use one that should be a bit easier.

Dwarvish Despondent Director

I want to say Kuru, but that feels way too easy. What about LMP? He started the Mordor thread, encouraging us to think about the stuff that bothers us...

Nope, it's probably easier than that.

*Points at self*

Well?

*points at TGWBS*

What he said.

Neither one is correct :p

I'm thinking Mr Underhill? Dwarvish, lives underground and director, he is a mod.

Nope you're not correct there either Kath. I think you're putting to much weight on the dwarf part. Look at the other two a bit more.