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Pervinca Took · 05-08-2019, 04:52 PM

BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here!
CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer.
BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone –
???O???: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown.
???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball,
???T???: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall.
???L???: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes -
???E???: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose!

THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS

Yes - you get a CRICK in your neck, and HOLLOW means empty.

You're right about the 'tall' (but not really) stories being Bilbo's, but Bag End does not have a T.

Pervinca Took · 05-08-2019, 11:44 PM

BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here!
CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer.
BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone –
???O???: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown.
???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball,
HOBBITON: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall.
???L???: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes -
GREAT SMIALS: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose!

A modest verse in rhyming couplets, to be sung to the tune of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.'

THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS

Needlehole was a good guess, but not the answer I'm looking for.

Pervinca Took · 05-09-2019, 01:23 AM

I suspect that Huinesoron knows them all but is holding back.

Nerwen · 05-09-2019, 05:23 AM

THISTLE BROOK for #7?

Pervinca Took · 05-09-2019, 06:03 AM

BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here!
CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer.
BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone –
???O???: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown.
???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball,
HOBBITON: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall.
THISTLEBROOK: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes -
GREAT SMIALS: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose!

A modest verse in rhyming couplets, to be sung to the tune of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.'

THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS

William Cloud Hicklin · 05-09-2019, 06:22 AM

By hob-nobs, are you referring to the English cookie brand?

Pervinca Took · 05-09-2019, 06:25 AM

Yes.

(I believe Gollum has been known to share them with orcs as well. Dipped in a nice cup of Darjeeling).

Pervinca Took · 05-09-2019, 06:27 AM

By the way, the red letter could fall anywhere in the remaining answers. ??? is to indicate that there's no pattern.

William Cloud Hicklin · 05-09-2019, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

Yes.

That's really very culturally specific; I don't think I'd know about them but for having lived there

It would have to be OATBARTON; Hob-nobs are largely oatmeal, and -barton is archaic "farm"

Pervinca Took · 05-09-2019, 10:30 AM

BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here!
CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer.
BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone –
OATBARTON: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown.
???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball,
HOBBITON: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall.
THISTLEBROOK: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes -
GREAT SMIALS: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose!

A modest verse in rhyming couplets, to be sung to the tune of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.'

THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS

I have encountered elements not used in the UK in this thread, too. Google is our friend!

'Barton' is indeed an archaic word for a farmyard. 'In the lonely barton by yonder coomb / Our childhood used to know' (Thomas Hardy, 'The Oxen.') Oatbarton suggests a field/farmyard where oats are grown. But a hobnob tree just seemed like a fun (though fanciful) idea.

They are oaty biscuits, after all ....

(I was possibly hungry when I wrote the clue).

One to go!

William Cloud Hicklin · 05-09-2019, 10:34 AM

Shame there's no place in the Shire named "Overnet"

Urwen · 05-09-2019, 10:44 AM

Quick Post?

Pervinca Took · 05-09-2019, 10:47 AM

No.

There may be an element in the clue that you are overlooking.

Pervinca Took · 05-09-2019, 10:56 AM

BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here!
CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer.
BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone –
OATBARTON: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown.
???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball,
HOBBITON: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall.
THISTLEBROOK: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes -
GREAT SMIALS: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose!

A modest verse in rhyming couplets, to be sung to the tune of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.'

THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS

Pervinca Took · 05-09-2019, 03:04 PM

BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here!
CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer.
BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone –
OATBARTON: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown.
WHITWELL: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball,
HOBBITON: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall.
THISTLEBROOK: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes -
GREAT SMIALS: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose!

A modest verse in rhyming couplets, to be sung to the tune of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.'

THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS

William, the floor is yours.

William Cloud Hicklin · 05-09-2019, 04:20 PM

All right, I have a few things to do so it will be a bit before I get the next one up

05-08-2019, 04:52 PM	#1
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here! CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer. BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone – ???O???: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown. ???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball, ???T???: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall. ???L???: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes - ???E???: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose! THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS Yes - you get a CRICK in your neck, and HOLLOW means empty. You're right about the 'tall' (but not really) stories being Bilbo's, but Bag End does not have a T. __________________ "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."

05-08-2019, 11:44 PM	#2
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here! CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer. BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone – ???O???: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown. ???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball, HOBBITON: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall. ???L???: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes - GREAT SMIALS: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose! A modest verse in rhyming couplets, to be sung to the tune of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS Needlehole was a good guess, but not the answer I'm looking for. __________________ "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." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 05-09-2019 at 12:01 AM.

05-09-2019, 01:23 AM	#3
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	I suspect that Huinesoron knows them all but is holding back. __________________ "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."

05-09-2019, 05:23 AM	#4
Nerwen Wisest of the Noldor Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ Posts: 6,694	THISTLE BROOK for #7? __________________ "Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo.

05-09-2019, 06:03 AM	#5
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here! CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer. BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone – ???O???: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown. ???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball, HOBBITON: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall. THISTLEBROOK: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes - GREAT SMIALS: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose! A modest verse in rhyming couplets, to be sung to the tune of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS __________________ "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."

05-09-2019, 06:22 AM	#6
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	By hob-nobs, are you referring to the English cookie brand? __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

05-09-2019, 06:25 AM	#7
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Yes. (I believe Gollum has been known to share them with orcs as well. Dipped in a nice cup of Darjeeling). __________________ "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."

05-09-2019, 06:27 AM	#8
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	By the way, the red letter could fall anywhere in the remaining answers. ??? is to indicate that there's no pattern. __________________ "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."

05-09-2019, 10:30 AM	#10
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here! CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer. BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone – OATBARTON: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown. ???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball, HOBBITON: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall. THISTLEBROOK: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes - GREAT SMIALS: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose! A modest verse in rhyming couplets, to be sung to the tune of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS I have encountered elements not used in the UK in this thread, too. Google is our friend! 'Barton' is indeed an archaic word for a farmyard. 'In the lonely barton by yonder coomb / Our childhood used to know' (Thomas Hardy, 'The Oxen.') Oatbarton suggests a field/farmyard where oats are grown. But a hobnob tree just seemed like a fun (though fanciful) idea. They are oaty biscuits, after all .... (I was possibly hungry when I wrote the clue). One to go! __________________ "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." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 05-09-2019 at 10:37 AM.

05-09-2019, 10:34 AM	#11
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Shame there's no place in the Shire named "Overnet" __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

05-09-2019, 10:44 AM	#12
Urwen Spirit of Nen Lalaith Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Meneltarma Posts: 5,408	Quick Post? __________________ Tuor: Yeah, it was me who broke [Morleg's] arm. With a wrench. Specifically, this wrench. I am suffering from Maeglinomaniacal Maeglinophilia.

05-09-2019, 10:47 AM	#13
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	No. There may be an element in the clue that you are overlooking. __________________ "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."

05-09-2019, 10:56 AM	#14
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here! CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer. BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone – OATBARTON: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown. ???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball, HOBBITON: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall. THISTLEBROOK: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes - GREAT SMIALS: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose! A modest verse in rhyming couplets, to be sung to the tune of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS __________________ "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."

05-09-2019, 03:04 PM	#15
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here! CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer. BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone – OATBARTON: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown. WHITWELL: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball, HOBBITON: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall. THISTLEBROOK: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes - GREAT SMIALS: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose! A modest verse in rhyming couplets, to be sung to the tune of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS William, the floor is yours. __________________ "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."

05-09-2019, 04:20 PM	#16
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	All right, I have a few things to do so it will be a bit before I get the next one up __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.