Cryptic Clues

[Ardent]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

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Green land exiled lady in papers after messed up signal

Here's my guess:

Dell = a green land
A messed up signal = a code?
There was a code machine called the Enigma, and Elgar wrote the Enigma Variations. There is no apparent link between the machine and the composer but one of the Variations was called Nimrod.

So could the exiled lady be Nimrodel?

Even if right it still leaves me wondering about "in papers"...

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Ardent

So could the exiled lady be Nimrodel?

No, not her.

The straight clue is either at the beginning or at the end. And what you said about the code is waaaaaaay too complicated and obscure. It's far simpler than that.

[Mithalwen]

Messed up probably indicates an anagram and I suspect grren land is the s traight clue. But I keep thinking of Ossiriand which doesn't work...hmmm ponders

[Mithalwen]

Tol Morwen? Not convinced but the papers bit is hard and there is almost a n anagram of news in there.

[Ardent]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Green land exiled lady in papers after messed up signal

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Tol Morwen? Not convinced but the papers bit is hard and there is almost a n anagram of news in there.

I thought signal could be an anagram of lingas, as in Eorlingas. Eowyn was kind of exiled when she became the Lady of Ithilien, but again the papers bit doesn't fit.


Green land could be a garden, and Elanor Gardener (an almost anagram) was kind of exiled to Undertowers after the palantir of the Havens and the last of the Fellowship sailed West. She inherited the Book of Westmarch from Sam which could account for the papers, but it seems a stretch to interpret the palantir as a "messed up signal". Perhaps it was in the sense that it looked to the West, providing communication with a land now lost.

[Galadriel55]

Should I tell you or should I not? I think I should.

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I keep thinking of Ossiriand which doesn't work...

But it does. Can you now just give the reason?

[Mithalwen]

Ah well I suppose Rian could be an exiled lady, in ID ie papers in the sense of documents (as I told lovely Heren Istarion once the motto of the French republuc is Liberte Egality Vos Papiers ) and the signal is SOS rearranged into Oss... bravo.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Ah well I suppose Rian could be an exiled lady, in ID ie papers in the sense of documents (as I told lovely Heren Istarion once the motto of the French republuc is Liberte Egality Vos Papiers ) and the signal is SOS rearranged into Oss... bravo.

That's right on. The thread is yours.

[Mithalwen]

So much easier when you know the answer.

Lets try...

Kick up a fuss but take direction to find a range.

[Pervinca Took]

Quite tuneful before the loss of the Ulster connection, this palindromic meanie wears a hat dead-centre.

[Morsul the Dark]

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

Quite tuneful before the loss of the Ulster connection, this palindromic meanie wears a hat dead-centre.

Palindrom that;s same forward and back that's te only thing in that clue that gives me remotely anything.