Thanks, Inzil. First, the puzzle:
"_ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ /
_ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ , / _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _ . / _ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ /
_ _ _ _ , / _ / _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _ , / _ _ _ _ _ _ /
_ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ , / _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ /
_ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ /
_ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _ . / _ _ _ / _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ / _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . /
_ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ ?"
Now, the comment:
For myself (as I am a latecomer to the game and couldn't find a single clear statement of the rules), I mostly use LotR, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion (I've only read The Children of Hurin once, so I'm not as familiar with it), but I occasionally use Unfinished Tales as well, as it contains some good stories in a reasonably finished form that do not appear in the central completed works. I wouldn't touch the HoME books because they contain a lot of conflicting ideas, abandoned versions, and stuff that is just too much "scholarly" material for one to presume that all fans of Tolkien's world would be familiar with them. Almost all Tolkien fans I know (or, more explicitly, those who read the books before the movies came out, which at my age is a hefty percentage of them) have read UT; very few have even touched the HoME books. So I kinda figure that using them as the source would be a rather underhanded attempt to be obscure. It's very safe to assume that any puzzle I post will come from LotR, TH, TS, or UT (probably in that order). I'll eschew UT in the future if people feel it violates the rules too greatly. Just FYI.
