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Old 06-26-2017, 04:19 PM   #2800
Pervinca Took
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1. LIME confused = MELI, plus AN, a word Shakespeare often used to mean 'if.' Example:

'Get up, get up, an you be a man!' (The Nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet').

2. LEMON confused gives MELON. Exchange the Westron exclamation O for the elvish one, AI (as in 'Ai! Ai! A Balrog!'), but reflect it (put it in backwards). Hence: MELIAN.
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