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Old 04-19-2018, 12:34 PM   #3632
Huinesoron
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Originally Posted by Nerwen View Post
Is it RING? Is the password SAURON?
Yes and yes!

1. S - The darkness a pig had within.
2. A mon Lanc - How can it be both bald and straight of hair? A nigh-insurmountable problem.
3. U - You speak not truth, in truth! An elvish insult cut short.
4. R ing - Binding the triple element within.
5. O - The slave tumbles, black-winged but doubly deprived.
6. N umenor - ... or old women, it falls

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Exactly. Element eleventy-one!
Dang, I should've thought of that, I could have called it the party element.

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Anyway, I should have said this before: my reasoning for the answer is that the clue really means "binding the triple element with 'in'", so R + IN + G.
Correct. And 'binding' is also the straight clue - as in, 'and in the darkness...'

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