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[Pervinca Took]

No. It's something the whips make driven prisoners *do.*

[Urwen]

Is what you do 'whip out Beater'.

Beater was wielded by Turgon himself in the olden days, and there is a theory that his nephew made and wielded Orcrist.

[Pervinca Took]

Because we're on a new page:

Though pedant proud this setter be,
To overload a clue, e’en she
Unwilling is, so therefore, peers,
For some of these, LOOK TO YOUR EARS! :-

1. Crossing where people eat their butties – before that is lost.
2. He’s a seafaring amputee! Ouch!
LAIQUENDI: These elves (and the lost boys) adore her.
THE FLOATING LOG: This pub has decidedly dodgy toilets.
5. Something you probably do if Rankin-Bass orcs are driving you.
6. Wee dog loses direction, but prances and pivots until he’s found!
BAMFURLONG: Distance a horse can travel on its posterior? Vowel shift! Here it is!
TURGON: An unsung hero, because he evidently unblocked the toilet in Gondolin, even without being noted for it!
9. Dunno how this geezer keeps his specs on, or stops his helm falling over his nose!
10. Kanga’s baby’s bogies are projectile for him!

[Urwen]

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

No. It's something the whips make driven prisoners *do.*

Cover in fear?

.....Feanor?

[Pervinca Took]

Originally Posted by Urwen

Is what you do 'whip out Beater'.

Beater was wielded by Turgon himself in the olden days, and there is a theory that his nephew made and wielded Orcrist.

Good idea, but no. You want a verb. One word.

Look at the song the goblins sing to their chained prisoners.

[Pervinca Took]

Originally Posted by Urwen

Cover in fear?

.....Feanor?

No. And not cower, either.

[Urwen]

They say 'and a whip and a crack'.

[Urwen]

Or do you mean that 'you go down to Goblin Town'.

[Pervinca Took]

Look at the song in 'The Hobbit.' When the dwarves are chained together in the cave, and the orcs are whipping them down to Goblin Town.

The Rankin-Bass reference was just for humour and the 'whip' connection.

EDIT: Yes to your last post/question.

[Urwen]

So is that the answer or do we need to condense it.....?

[Urwen]

I think 6 is one of those clues, and Miniature mutt gives us Minyatur.

[Huinesoron]

6 makes me think of Roverandom, but I'm not sure we can do anything with that.

1: A butty is a sandwich (usually as 'chip butty' in my experience). Hmm... a sandwich is also a sarnie, so that suggests SARN FORD. You lose 'i.e.', which kind of fits with '- before that'.

9: This must be a name with 'ear' in it (for the specs), but EARENDIL doesn't seem to fit. EARNIL = ear + nil (= none), so that would work.

5: could this simply be FALL?

hS

[Urwen]

I don't thing fall is the answer, for it has nothing to do with the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTDa-vG2MQ

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Urwen

I don't thing fall is the answer, for it has nothing to do with the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTDa-vG2MQ

The lyrics are listed here, too.

So what might you do if that's being sung at you? There's a fair few verbs mentioned (and a few more in the poem it comes from), but nothing jumps out as being anything other than a verb; no place- or person-names.

GO is the most repeated one; there's no other verbs unambiguously directed at the captives in the song ('batter, jabber' could be). In the poem, both 'work' and 'shirk' are, and arguably 'pound'.

Or it could be synonyms, which is where fall came into things (as a synonym for descend, go down, &c).

hS

[Pervinca Took]

Though pedant proud this setter be,
To overload a clue, e’en she
Unwilling is, so therefore, peers,
For some of these, LOOK TO YOUR EARS! :-

SARN(IE) FORD: Crossing where people eat their butties – before that is lost.
2. He’s a seafaring amputee! Ouch!
LAIQUENDI: These elves (and the lost boys) adore her.
THE FLOATING LOG: This pub has decidedly dodgy toilets.
5. Something you probably do if Rankin-Bass orcs are driving you.
6. Wee dog loses direction, but prances and pivots until he’s found!
BAMFURLONG: Distance a horse can travel on its posterior? Vowel shift! Here it is!
TURGON: An unsung hero, because he evidently unblocked the toilet in Gondolin, even without being noted for it!
EARNIL: Dunno how this geezer keeps his specs on, or stops his helm falling over his nose!
10. Kanga’s baby’s bogies are projectile for him!

One more correct answer so far.

The verb you want is kind of similar to jabber and batter. Closer to jabber, I would say.

The dog element is not the *name* of a dog. It's a synonym, but 'mutt' is the wrong synonym.

WHOOPS! SORRY! EARNIL IS CORRECT TOO! WELL DONE.

[Urwen]

Kanga's baby is Roo, but what are bogies?

[Urwen]

jabber=rumble, mumble, gab, murmur, mutter, yap, yak, blather, ramble, utter.

[Huinesoron]

Either YAMMER or BLEAT might work, then; I have an inkling it might be the former.

hS

[Urwen]

dog=pup, cur, hound?

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Urwen

Kanga's baby is Roo, but what are bogies?

What you get in your nose when you're ill. I'm assuming it's a word containing (starting with?) RU, but while there's a handful of Hobbits who do, along with of course Rumil, I can't fit the rest of the clue.

hS

[Urwen]

Russandol might work there (RU+NASAL) or something

[Pervinca Took]

HIGHLIGHT Though pedant proud this setter be,
To overload a clue, e’en she
Unwilling is, so therefore, peers,
For some of these, LOOK TO YOUR EARS! :-

SARN(IE) FORD: Crossing where people eat their butties – before that is lost.
2. He’s a seafaring amputee! Ouch!
LAIQUENDI: These elves (and the lost boys) adore her.
THE FLOATING LOG: This pub has decidedly dodgy toilets.
YAMMER: Something you probably do if Rankin-Bass orcs are driving you.
6. Wee dog loses direction, but prances and pivots until he’s found!
BAMFURLONG: Distance a horse can travel on its posterior? Vowel shift! Here it is!
TURGON: An unsung hero, because he evidently unblocked the toilet in Gondolin, even without being noted for it!
EARNIL: Dunno how this geezer keeps his specs on, or stops his helm falling over his nose!
10. Kanga’s baby’s bogies are projectile for him!

Huey's inkling is correct.

Kanga's baby is indeed called ROO. Don't change the spelling.

I think bogies are called boogers in North America.

One of Urwen's dog synonyms is right.

[Urwen]

Mini+cu?

[Huinesoron]

... -_- The password is SILLY CLUES, isn't it?

hS

[Urwen]

Seafaring is either marine or maritime. Amputee probably means 'loses an arm'. If we remove 'arm' from these, we get



I N E


I T I M E

[Urwen]

2. Maitimo?

[Pervinca Took]

SILLY CLUES it is!

[Urwen]

Ahm......

Originally Posted by Urwen

2. Maitimo?

[Pervinca Took]

Though pedant proud this setter be,
To overload a clue, e’en she
Unwilling is, so therefore, peers,
For some of these, LOOK TO YOUR EARS! :-

SARN(IE) FORD: Crossing where people eat their butties – before that is lost.
???I???: He’s a seafaring amputee! Ouch!
LAIQUENDI: These elves (and the lost boys) adore her.
THE FLOATING LOG: This pub has decidedly dodgy toilets.
YAMMER: Something you probably do if Rankin-Bass orcs are driving you.
???C???: Wee dog loses direction, but prances and pivots until he’s found!
BAMFURLONG: Distance a horse can travel on its posterior? Vowel shift! Here it is!
TURGON: An unsung hero, because he evidently unblocked the toilet in Gondolin, even without being noted for it!
EARNIL: Dunno how this geezer keeps his specs on, or stops his helm falling over his nose!
???S???: Kanga’s baby’s bogies are projectile for him!

PASSWORD & THEME: SILLY CLUES.

Urwen, I've never heard of Maitimo. But more to the point, there's no C in it.

[Huinesoron]

It's Maedhros' mother-name.

Speaking of Feanorions, has Urwen already guessed CURUFIN for the C clue? CUR + (FINE - E) [for 'wee, small'], with a U for 'pivots', ie U-turn.

hS

[Pervinca Took]

Urwen, the answer to clue 2 is not a million miles away.

[Pervinca Took]

CUR is right, but Curufin is not.

Why not?

Because your reasoning is simply not silly enough.

[Urwen]

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

Urwen, the answer to clue 2 is not a million miles away.

I don't understand.....

[Pervinca Took]

Originally Posted by Urwen

I don't understand.....

It's like Laiquendi, but not as far away.

[Urwen]

Curumo? (Sounds like 'curly moe')

[Pervinca Took]

Sillier than that. (Or at least, more puerile).

EDIT: Very close, though.

[Urwen]

Does it start with CUR, at least?

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

Sillier than that. (Or at least, more puerile).

EDIT: Very close, though.

... -_-, again.

CUR + URINE - E(ast) = CURUNIR.

hS

[Urwen]

I searched for seafaring amputee, and all I got was this puzzle, so I still don't get it.

[Pervinca Took]

Though pedant proud this setter be,
To overload a clue, e’en she
Unwilling is, so therefore, peers,
For some of these, LOOK TO YOUR EARS! :-

SARN(IE) FORD: Crossing where people eat their butties – before that is lost.
???I???: He’s a seafaring amputee! Ouch!
LAIQUENDI: These elves (and the lost boys) adore her.
THE FLOATING LOG: This pub has decidedly dodgy toilets.
YAMMER: Something you probably do if Rankin-Bass orcs are driving you.
CURUNIR: Wee dog loses direction, but prances and pivots until he’s found!
BAMFURLONG: Distance a horse can travel on its posterior? Vowel shift! Here it is!
TURGON: An unsung hero, because he evidently unblocked the toilet in Gondolin, even without being noted for it!
EARNIL: Dunno how this geezer keeps his specs on, or stops his helm falling over his nose!
???S???: Kanga’s baby’s bogies are projectile for him!

PASSWORD & THEME: SILLY CLUES.