Tolkien's Letters
 

"Wrong forum!" I hear you cry.

"I defy you, stars!" quoth Rimbaud, and explained the game.

"'Tis a game of anagrams,
Of jumbled letter;
A trip through wonderful words,
To make them better."

"But..." stammered the hapless mortals, "But..isn't that a bit, well, easy for you, Rimski?"

"True enough," retorted the Perilous Poet, "Which is why solving the anagram is not sufficient to continue. The respondent must proceed, once they have solved the puzzle, with one of their own, the answer of which has the same first letter as the last letter of the solution to the previous riddle. You grok? "

"No, to be honest, Rim," muttered the crowd.

The poet sighed, his frustrations were increasing. He would need to iron them out. "Listen, imbeciles," he snarled, but was stopped as a cauliflower impacted upon his skull, cast from the hand of some unknown vagabond or rapscallion. "Ahem, listen, gentle readers..."

"Hang on, hang on!" shouted the crowd. "Listen, gentle readers? That makes no sense! Call yourself a wordsmith?"

Rimbaud drew himself up to his full height, a respectable one for a common garden frog, but not all that impressive in truth, puffed out his chest and stated thus: "Once you have solved the anagram, in examplem - 'Yer, Mr' becoming 'Merry' - you must proceed with a riddle whose solution begins with the last letter of the previous soultion, in this case - 'Y'. Yavanna, for instance. The anagram for that could be..."Nay, a van!""

"Oh."

"Here goes then," said the Perilous Poet.

Kal mi a cab, Magda barn!

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Kalimac Brandagamba

O Man, Martha!

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Amon Amarth.

Denethor's question...

O! U find oval horn?

Hound of Valinor

Melkor's advice to Gothmog:

Caro, write off the ork scum!

Good one, Pio.

Rock of the Music of Water

Internal Memo found, addressed to Sauron's Secretary, by the Soldiers of Gondor in Mordor, just after the War of the Ring:

Kellie - vend, con for Ring.

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Reckoning of Rivendell

Footsore, they find rest . . .

Wo! Sadlli flown.

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Land of Willows

Sam, u ran?

(My mistake, pio)

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(the wandering L has returned)

This has me stumped!

Though, when I read it aloud, 'Saruman' jumped out. (reading 'u' for 'you')

Saruman, it is.

Wicked man! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I was down to letters from my Scrabble game and all my reference books!

Legalos - please throw one out!

Can't resist one more before I go to work.

Hostelry, Angband style:

A! Inn noir!

Noirinan.

As I was about to post...

My favourite dwarves?

Nori & Dain, hun!

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Nanduhirion

Lira Queen

Narquelie

Wormtongue, as he was seducing Theoden:

Lotion, sire?

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Yes . . . and yes! Please continue.

Elostirion

Yes!

Necromancer

Male line is: Rex

Realms in Exile

Dare, lion!

Eldarion, (the Heir of Aragorn).

Then, Rodin ran nude!

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Northern Dúnedain

Grr(r)! Ive A 'No'

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This one starts with n?

My only guess would be Narog River, but that has one more 'r' than you alotted us.

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[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Those damnable elusive R's! They keep getting away from me!

GROAN! it is, indeed, the Narog!

Please continue.

Try this:

Dare ta go wrest!

Piosenniel,

My lady you have me quite stumped. May I inquire, respectfully, as to the solution?

Aburdim

I think it was a too Americanized referrent. A famous newspaperman of yore, Horace Greeley, once wrote - 'Go West, young man, go west.'

The answer is: Great West Road

Please continue, my winsome Wordsmith!

*Bows low and is grateful for the gracious reply*

A vegetarian Elf, sitting down with Gimli for a 'light snack', mentions that the

"Damn food moos!"

Doom of Mandos

Beruthiel has an inspiration:

Ah, cats!

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Scatha

Low budget crebain

Ein Raven

Aw, you beat me to it! I was going to change it to "Ah, th' cat's mreow" for "Scatha the Worm" to make it harder. Shucks. Anyway, carry on (I have no time to figure yours out, sorry!)

And yet, hours later, time has come to me.

Avernien

German/Turkish duel citizen:

Herr Adana

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I'm not sure why I keep getting skipped - it hasn't been a week since I got the answer right.

Anyway, Diamond, does this start with the last letter of the previous answer, like it is supposed to?

Yes, of course it does.

Near Harad

Eru's nickname for Melkor:

D'Moody Oaf!

Is it Day of Doom?

Yes - Day of Doom, it is!

From now on, if you feel you've answered it correctly - please feel free to post a new one! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Praise for a hospital entertainment volunteer:

She's (a) great ward mime.

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Quite correct. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]