1. Food storage source, albeit deep? So long!
2. Palindromic dwarf? Different nasal and a shuffle produces a place of mirth. 3. Wax lyrical, grain! One hopes it’s happening to bread. SHINY: Glistening part of a leg – wherefore, we hear? 5. Song comes between article and element for him. LORIEN: A well-governed Dashwood is nonetheless in turmoil here. 7. Press this substance. NOSE: Organ of negative direction. 9. Pluralise a palindrome that sounds like another. They’ll stare you in the face. 10: Oswald Alving craved it. The last thing he ever craved. |
I am now completely at loss for the other clues, but have a few beginnings of thoughts that may or may not be going in the right direction.
2. Going through various dwarves in mh head, I can only think of Mim. Swap an M for an N and shuffle, and you get... MNI? IMN? Do I even have the right dwarf? 3. Going through different types of grain hasn't inspired an answer, but if you can hope something is happening to bread, you hope that it will RISE? |
You are so close ... Mim is the right dwarf. And you have the right nasal. But the nasal consonant appears twice. 'Different nasal' meant change to usage of a different nasal. In other words, use that different nasal in all/both instances.
RISE is almost the answer, but what do we hope our bread will BE DOING? Make that adjustment and you'll be ordering a cereal to wax lyrical. The two that you guessed first - SHINY and NOSE - are actually the most difficult, theme and password-wise, because they are 'joking' fulfilments of it. ;) And together, they *sort* of almost hint at the theme in a way I didn't think of when I chose them. ;) |
There was an INN, a merry old INN. Nice. :)
RISING?... Oh. As in rye sing? |
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1. Food storage source, albeit deep? So long!
INN: Palindromic dwarf? Different nasal and a shuffle produces a place of mirth. RISING: Wax lyrical, grain! One hopes it’s happening to bread. SHINY: Glistening part of a leg – wherefore, we hear? 5. Song comes between article and element for him. LORIEN: A well-governed Dashwood is nonetheless in turmoil here. 7. Press this substance. NOSE: Organ of negative direction. 9. Pluralise a palindrome that sounds like another. They’ll stare you in the face. 10: Oswald Alving craved it. The last thing he ever craved. |
10. So I am not familiar with Oswald Aling, bit looking up the play I wonder if it might be DEATH.
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But I'm after the thing he asks for in the *very last lines* of the play. |
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...the sun! Give me the sun! |
I am a bit at loss at what the theme or the password could be, though there are certainly plenty of letters. But it just occurred to me that the Moon might in some way be a connecting point with several of these. "Shiny" and "rising" are reasonable descriptions, the Inn is where the Man in the Moon goes to drink his fill, and someone (Frodo?) is befuddled by the moon after leaving Lorien, not realizing a whole month has passed. Don't know about nose, but maybe Tilion had a honker.
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1. Food storage source, albeit deep? So long!
INN: Palindromic dwarf? Different nasal and a shuffle produces a place of mirth. RISING: Wax lyrical, grain! One hopes it’s happening to bread. SHINY: Glistening part of a leg – wherefore, we hear? 5. Song comes between article and element for him. LORIEN: A well-governed Dashwood is nonetheless in turmoil here. 7. Press this substance. NOSE: Organ of negative direction. 9. Pluralise a palindrome that sounds like another. They’ll stare you in the face. SUN: Oswald Alving craved it. The last thing he ever craved. The theme isn't the sun or moon or anything particularly shiny, I'm afraid. My advice: ignore 'shiny' and 'nose' for now, and look carefully at the letters you have guessed so far. |
FIRST LINES for the password?
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F: Food storage source, albeit deep? So long!
INN: Palindromic dwarf? Different nasal and a shuffle produces a place of mirth. (There is an inn, a merry old inn) RISING: Wax lyrical, grain! One hopes it’s happening to bread. (Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising) SHINY: Glistening part of a leg – wherefore, we hear? (When Bilbo found that shiny ring)* T: Song comes between article and element for him. LÓRIEN: A well-governed Dashwood is nonetheless in turmoil here. (In Dwimordene, in Lórien) I: Press this substance. NOSE: Organ of negative direction. (I sit on the floor and pick my nose)** E: Pluralise a palindrome that sounds like another. They’ll stare you in the face. SUN: Oswald Alving craved it. The last thing he ever craved. (West of the Moon, East of the Sun) * From 'Frodooooo of the Niiiiiine Fingerrrrrrrs, and the Ring of Dooooooom.' ** From the parody of 'I sit beside the fire and think' in 'Bored Of The Rings.' |
THEODEN = the + ode + N
Thank you for providing the asterisked sources. I have spotted most answers but was very puzzled about which poem I was missing that could possibly begin with "nose". :D |
Could that final E be EYES, the plural of eye (which sounds like also-palindrome I)? I can't think of a poem that has it in the right place (one stanza of Aragorn's condensed Lay of Leithian opens with 'As Beren looked into her eyes', but that's as close as I get), but it seems to fit.
This is a very clever password! hS |
Hello and Farewell for F Fare & well?
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Eyes, Farewell and Theoden are correct. Sorry, no time to put them in just now.
Huey: 'Day is ended, dim my eyes.' |
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So just the I... could it be IRON? An iron presses clothes, and it appears in Ere iron was found or tree was hewn, when Gandalf plays the riddle-game and Theoden concedes. hS |
IRON is correct. Was that the last one? If so, well done all, and over to G55.
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Thanks, Pervinca! That was a wonderful password!
Unfortunately I probably won't be able to get anything up in the next few days. If anyone wants to go ahead, the floor is open. Or I'll put one up mid-next week. |
FAREWELL: Food storage source, albeit deep? So long! (Farewell sweet earth and northern sky)
INN: Palindromic dwarf? Different nasal and a shuffle produces a place of mirth. (There is an inn, a merry old inn) RISING: Wax lyrical, grain! One hopes it’s happening to bread. (Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising) SHINY: Glistening part of a leg – wherefore, we hear? (When Bilbo found that shiny ring)* THEODEN: Song comes between article and element for him. (Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden!) LÓRIEN: A well-governed Dashwood is nonetheless in turmoil here. (In Dwimordene, in Lórien) IRON: Press this substance. (Ere iron was found or tree was hewn) NOSE: Organ of negative direction. (I sit on the floor and pick my nose)** EYES: Pluralise a palindrome that sounds like another. They’ll stare you in the face. (Day is ended, dim my eyes) SUN: Oswald Alving craved it. The last thing he ever craved. (West of the Moon, East of the Sun) * From 'Frodooooo of the Niiiiiine Fingerrrrrrrs, and the Ring of Dooooooom.' ** From the parody of 'I sit beside the fire and think' in 'Bored Of The Rings.' |
Well, I'm back. And by the look of it I am still up. So here is one. But fair warning, the theme on this one turned out a bit looser than I initially intended.
1. In it you might sail a kayak, almost, overturned after the beginning of the end. 2. No number, no note, just a messed up kingdom. 3. In a forest, cars glad with a one and a one and an endless honk. 4. Read, sign, move around, tower over the valley. 5. Remainder of the northmen? In the fen. 6. See hear, rise as grim as the shaken mountains. 7. In the heart of the dark land, all you need is love! No, not love: l ---. 8. Short mass arm chore in a muddle. Take the second half of the wall. 9. Green land, after the resurrection. |
3. In a forest, cars glad with a one and a one and an endless honk.
CARAS GALADHON? CARS + GLAD + A + A + HON(K) and it's in a forest. |
#6: 'See hear' = C + rise as grim = CRISSAEGRIM, part of the Encircling Mountains of Gondolin.
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Could 5 be Deadmen's Dyke? I think a dyke can mean a marsh or fen, and that one could contain remains of northmen.
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Yes to the first two, but no to Deadmen's Dyke.
1. In it you might sail a kayak, almost, overturned after the beginning of the end. 2. No number, no note, just a messed up kingdom. 3. CARAS GALADHON: In a forest, cars glad with a one and a one and an endless honk. 4. Read, sign, move around, tower over the valley. 5. Remainder of the northmen? In the fen. 6. CRISSAEGRIM: See hear, rise as grim as the shaken mountains. 7. In the heart of the dark land, all you need is love! No, not love: l ---. 8. Short mass arm chore in a muddle. Take the second half of the wall. 9. Green land, after the resurrection. |
#1: CELON is a 4/5 letter match for 'canoe', and... y'know... sailing, river.
5: The fens I can think of are Serech, Aelin-uial/fens of Sirion, the Gladden Fields, and the Nindalf/Wetwang at the Mouths of Entwash. The Sirion delta might also count. I can't conjure up an answer from those areas though. hS |
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I'm assuming not, but I'd kick myself if I didn't ask... hS |
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Is it the candles of corpses in the Dead Marshes?
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For these it was, the chosen men of Beor's house, who in the fen of reedy Serech stood at bay about King Inglor in the day of his defeat, and with their swords thus saved of all the Elven-lords the fairest; and his love they earned. The Lay implies that Barahir's outlaws were the last survivors of Serech, which makes it a brutal winnowing indeed. ... oh heck, Huor died at Serech during the Nirnaeth, along with 'all the valiant Men of Hador'. That's two of the Houses of the Edain practically wiped out in the same sodden marsh. o.O And apparently Celegorm destroyed a massive orc-host there, too... place must have been hecka haunted. Oh, there's the Dead Marshes, too; but I think you said I'd already found the right fen. (Why does Tolkien like covering marshes in bodies so much?) hS |
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Letting the dead lie for a moment, and going on to #9: could this be ERYN LASGALEN (or 'Wood of Green Leaves')? It's the new name of the Greenwood after it was restored ('resurrected') from being Mirkwood.
#1: 'cano' is a Quenya/Telerin word ('commander' or 'herald') but I don't think that's very useful. I suppose it could always be CANON... ;) #4: purely based on the possible straight clue ('tower over the valley'), this could be CIRITH UNGOL. 'Cirith' is pretty close to 'cirth', which brings in the reading connection. It's taken me embarassingly long to realise that the Downs puts serifs on 'I', and so clue #7 ends with a lowercase L instead. The structure of the clue suggests it could be LIKE (or LUST, if you're feeling slashy), but more literally, what you need in the dark land is LIGHT. hS |
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No to the other two (and yes, that's an L---). |
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(The Lay must be the most resurrection-y story in all of Tolkien...) hS |
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1. In it you might sail a kayak, almost, overturned after the beginning of the end. 2. No number, no note, just a messed up kingdom. 3. CARAS GALADHON: In a forest, cars glad with a one and a one and an endless honk. 4. Read, sign, move around, tower over the valley. 5. REMNANT OF HITHLUM: Remainder of the northmen? In the fen. 6. CRISSAEGRIM: See hear, rise as grim as the shaken mountains. 7. In the heart of the dark land, all you need is love! No, not love: l ---. 8. Short mass arm chore in a muddle. Take the second half of the wall. 9. Green land, after the resurrection. |
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And later still, looking at the composite map, it ought to be somewhere in Harlindon. There might even be enough wiggle room to place it directly under Harlond, the haven on the southern banks of Lhun. hS |
1. In it you might sail a kayak, almost, overturned after the beginning of the end.
2. No number, no note, just a messed up kingdom. 3. CARAS GALADHON: In a forest, cars glad with a one and a one and an endless honk. 4. Read, sign, move around, tower over the valley. 5. REMNANT OF HITHLUM: Remainder of the northmen? In the fen. 6. CRISSAEGRIM: See hear, rise as grim as the shaken mountains. 7. In the heart of the dark land, all you need is love! No, not love: l ---. 8. Short mass arm chore in a muddle. Take the second half of the wall. 9. DOR FIRN-I-GUINAR: Green land, after the resurrection. Quote:
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(A slightly rejigged map confirms it's right down in Harlindon, nowhere near the Haven; you can see the Adurant as the final blue/purple line running right through the word 'South'.) hS |
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1. In it you might sail a kayak, almost, overturned after the beginning of the end. 2. No number, no note, just a messed up kingdom. 3. CARAS GALADHON: In a forest, cars glad with a one and a one and an endless honk. 4. Read, sign, move around, tower over the valley. 5. REMNANT OF HITHLUM: Remainder of the northmen? In the fen. 6. CRISSAEGRIM: See hear, rise as grim as the shaken mountains. 7. In the heart of the dark land, all you need is love! No, not love: l ---. 8. Short mass arm chore in a muddle. Take the second half of the wall. 9. DOR FIRN-I-GUINAR [Tol Galen]: Green land, after the resurrection. |
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