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Pervinca Took · 07-17-2018, 10:39 AM

Correct! Well done, Huinesoron.

'In transit' was because the letters of ALDI had to go into transit, as well as the letters of MRIS needing to be scattered.

CRICKHOLLOW: Tess’s kindest boss. Empty location?
TOL ERESSEA: He turns back (as did his wife, with dire consequences), before Saruman initially meets the ocean here.
BAMFURLONG: See the fairies’ midwife dance backwards – a measure of the place!
LAURELINDORENAN: Tree meets flatbread of South Yorkshire village here.
THE PRANCING PONY: Stable, but not impenetrable, one might say of a part of this establishment.
ITHILIEN: A blow is dealt to the lazy morning in confusion here.
IMLADRIS: Scans scattered around amongst a shop in transit here.

Password: REFUGES

Specific theme: places where the Ringbearer took/was offered refuge.

Crickhollow was the one I wasn't quite sure qualified as a refuge, as Frodo had bought it rather than been offered sanctuary there. (He did take refuge there, though - from the road. His quest had begun and he had already (unknowingly) seen or sensed a Nazgul or two).

I think the idea of making it just the Ringbearer's places of refuge might have come from that piece of literary criticism that said that Frodo needed digging out of about 6 Homely Houses before he even got to Elrond's.

Well done everyone, and over to Huinesoron.

07-17-2018, 10:39 AM	#3990
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Correct! Well done, Huinesoron. 'In transit' was because the letters of ALDI had to go into transit, as well as the letters of MRIS needing to be scattered. CRICKHOLLOW: Tess’s kindest boss. Empty location? TOL ERESSEA: He turns back (as did his wife, with dire consequences), before Saruman initially meets the ocean here. BAMFURLONG: See the fairies’ midwife dance backwards – a measure of the place! LAURELINDORENAN: Tree meets flatbread of South Yorkshire village here. THE PRANCING PONY: Stable, but not impenetrable, one might say of a part of this establishment. ITHILIEN: A blow is dealt to the lazy morning in confusion here. IMLADRIS: Scans scattered around amongst a shop in transit here. Password: REFUGES Specific theme: places where the Ringbearer took/was offered refuge. Crickhollow was the one I wasn't quite sure qualified as a refuge, as Frodo had bought it rather than been offered sanctuary there. (He did take refuge there, though - from the road. His quest had begun and he had already (unknowingly) seen or sensed a Nazgul or two). I think the idea of making it just the Ringbearer's places of refuge might have come from that piece of literary criticism that said that Frodo needed digging out of about 6 Homely Houses before he even got to Elrond's. Well done everyone, and over to Huinesoron. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 07-19-2018 at 05:46 PM.