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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
Wade of the Helsings, wearyhearted, from a fragment of the Lay of Earendel.
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Bingo!
1.
GILIM - I save a third of a dwarf for last; seek me at the meeting of man and Eru.
2.
ULBANDI - Backwards we fall, the headless onion and I; are we an ogre or ent we?
3.
WADE - Wearyhearted, I splash through the water with the Mariner, second in line.
4.
NAN - But for my sword, you might think me an aged woman; I am not a number.
5.
TARLANG - From paved road and shortened speech, I build and become white.
6.
STONE GIANTS - We're tall and we rock! And some of us are more or less decent.
And thus ends what may well be the most obscure password to date. 'Wade of the Helsings, wearyhearted' is actually a
deleted line from the Earendil poem; quite what he was doing there, Tolkien never said.
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
How can we deduce that he was a giant, though? Unless it's on a later line ... don't have time to read on now.
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It's not in the poem; Wade is a primary-world mythological character,
seen here. There are stones at Whitby said to be the grave of a sea-giant by that name, and the article for his son Wayland confirms that the Thidrekssaga describes Wade as a giant.
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
I know I need the 2nd letter, but you also said the clue hinted at the line number, and I could not see any number hint but 'second,' so thought it referred to both things.
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Yeah, 'wearyhearted' was the line hint, as I think you got.
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
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That is a
fascinating thread. I think I may have to pester it back into life; I've already got a theory that 'the dirk of Nargil/the knife of the North in Nogrod smithied' looks like a reference to Angrist, and I love the world-cleaving falchion of lightning. ^_^
And so, over to you,
Pervinca Took, and well-earned.
hS