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Mithalwen · 02-25-2013, 12:10 PM

Inevitably I had to do the industrial revolution again along with communist chinacand a local study. Despite going fromone local school to another I seem to have done little else but the ir...apart from the year we had a devout yorkist.

Mithalwen · 02-26-2013, 08:08 AM

Lord whose end, in France, is also his beginning. Interim target loses pitch.

Galadriel55 · 02-26-2013, 04:20 PM

Fingolfin? Fin being French for end, and gol as goal-a.

Mithalwen · 02-27-2013, 05:16 AM

Indeed, it is all yours. Thought I woud be less obscure and maybe overdidvit!

Galadriel55 · 02-28-2013, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Indeed, it is all yours. Thought I woud be less obscure and maybe overdidvit!

I could only just think of two people who have names that both begin and end on "fin"... That helped a lot.

Ok, here's one:

Tower without one leader in Shire in goblin

Pervinca Took · 02-28-2013, 03:56 PM

Orthanc.

Orthanc is the tower; thain (Shire leader) minus 1 (I) inside the word orc (goblin).

Galadriel55 · 02-28-2013, 05:51 PM

Precisely. Over to you.

02-25-2013, 12:10 PM	#1
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Inevitably I had to do the industrial revolution again along with communist chinacand a local study. Despite going fromone local school to another I seem to have done little else but the ir...apart from the year we had a devout yorkist. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

02-26-2013, 08:08 AM	#2
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Lord whose end, in France, is also his beginning. Interim target loses pitch. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

02-26-2013, 04:20 PM	#3
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,493	Fingolfin? Fin being French for end, and gol as goal-a. __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

02-27-2013, 05:16 AM	#4
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Indeed, it is all yours. Thought I woud be less obscure and maybe overdidvit! __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

02-28-2013, 03:56 PM	#6
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Orthanc. Orthanc is the tower; thain (Shire leader) minus 1 (I) inside the word orc (goblin). __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

02-28-2013, 05:51 PM	#7
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,493	Precisely. Over to you. __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera Last edited by Galadriel55; 02-28-2013 at 06:52 PM.