6 Degrees of Separation

[William Cloud Hicklin]

All right:

SAURON -> LEGOLAS, without using ANY members of the Fellowship or Council of Elrond.

[Urwen]

Sauron>Gil-Galad>Oropher>Thranduil>Legolas


Do I get a cookie?

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Well, Gil-galad > Oropher is a bit more distant than I had in mind. Just a graham cracker.

HINT: There are no parent-child relationships

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

Well, Gil-galad > Oropher is a bit more distant than I had in mind. Just a graham cracker.

HINT: There are no parent-child relationships

It's not that distant - weren't they both commanders in the Last Alliance?

Of course, there's always this:

Sauron > Mouth of Sauron > Legolas.

Legolas is present at the parley, though he doesn't speak. (Similarly, Sauron > One of the Nazgul > Legolas, who shot at it.)

But I doubt that's what you're thinking of.

hS

[William Cloud Hicklin]

OK, that works, but it wasn't the 6-stepper I had in mind

[Huinesoron]

Sauron > Galadriel > Legolas?

At Dol Guldur and Lorien, respectively.

I'm not too clear on what the aim of the game in this thread is. Are we trying to find the exact solution the question-setter thought of? Are we hunting for as many answers as possible? Or are we after the shortest answer? It's all a bit vague, it's driving me batty.

(I've been mostly assuming some form of 'match or beat the length specified by the setter', for the record, with the caveat that cheeky/sneaky answers may meet a reply of 'clever, but can you also do it properly?')

For a more serious answer...

1. Sauron captured and tortured
2. Thrain, who was the father of
3. Thorin, who was imprisoned by
4. Thranduil, who was the father of
5. Legolas.

hS

[Huinesoron]

Oh wait, you said no parent-child sets. Hrm. Let's try:

1. Sauron tortured
2. Gollum, who clearly had an encounter with
3. Grishnakh, who argued with
4. Ugluk, who duelled with
5. Eomer, who shortly thereafter met
6. Legolas.

Originally Posted by TTT

For a moment Pippin was silent. Then suddenly in the darkness he made a noise in his throat: gollum, gollum. 'Nothing, my precious,' he added.

The hobbits felt Grishnákh's fingers twitch. 'O ho!' hissed the goblin softly. 'That's what he means, is it? O ho! Very ve-ry dangerous, my little ones.'

Unless 'he says 'precious' a lot and has a bad cough' is valuable information for the spies of Mordor, I think it's clear Grishnakh and Gollum have met.

hS