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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
Ah, Bilbo IS the insect. Of course he is - naughty little fly!
I was trying something with blob, but didn't make that connection.
Taniquetil for the last one - Manwe and the noble Varda?
Cirith Ungol ... I can see TURN, but can you show me the rest?
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No,
definitely not Manwë and Varda- but I was wondering if someone would guess that...
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Originally Posted by Huinesoron
I've no guesses at the anagram - if it has TURN then there's also letters for LOGIC, but 'HI! LOGIC TURN' doesn't really spring out as relevant.
Still thinking about #3. Assuming it's not Taniquetil per Pervinca, I guess 'reflected' indicates it's reversed. Hmm...
EDIT: If the 'noble lady' is Shelob Herself, then 'he' who lived in the high place known as the Tower of Cirith Ungol is SHAGRAT (or TARGAHS, reversed).
hS
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That's it! The clue more-or-less paraphrases the line, "You should try being up here with Shelob for company".
As for CIRITH UNGOL- the second way of arriving at the answer is TWISTED SUFFERING = COILING HURT, "twisted" again for the anagram.
So-
AVATHAR Incarnation has a solitary element in this land of shadows.
TELPERION Unsettled surfeit for the insatiable.
TARGAHS (Shagrat) As he reflected, he lived in high places, in the company of a noblewoman.
ERED GORGOROTH Legendary one walked valley, bewildered, in dreadful mountains.
ROKLEM (Melkor) A mighty avant garde soloist, in retrograde. Or is that an echo?
CIRITH UNGOL Twice-twisted suffering? We have come to a pretty pass.
OBLIB (Bilbo) A venomous insect, yes- but me, a mixed-up globule? Take it back!
PHIAL OF GALADRIEL Star-power? She bottled it!
Theme: giant spiders.
Well done, both of you!
And over to you,
Pervinca!