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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
OH Arda? Anagram of RADA....
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Yes. Spoil RADA to get ARDA. And Arda is famously referred to as "Arda Marred" at the end of The Silmarillion. Hence "doubly spoiled."
Re the "Drogo" clue - the "reforms" bit was both literal and indicating an anagram - Alex and his droogs were criminals, so a character would have to reform, so to speak, to become a respectable hobbit.
TUOR: One rarely privileged forces back the mob.
URWEN: Maiden hides pronoun in a vase.
MITHRANDIR: Legend sprinted expensively, we hear, for an epesse with a tempestuous echo.
LOTHO: Unwilling exclamation for one consumed – perhaps literally – by greed.
ARDA: Doubly spoiled place was a thespian establishment.
DROGO: Alex’s companion reforms for the father of an Elf-Friend.
EGLANTINE BANKS: Prioress invests to become Tookish consort.
NOBOTTLE: Where the hobbits’ courage fails them, perhaps.
Your turn.
