1. C onspiracy - If three (3) is company, then what is five (4)?
2. - Twixt dark below and dark above, below & between. 3. - + 60, -10, still stepping out of the same door. 4. - A place of first meetings, lingering glances, and (nearly) last farewells. 5. - Twenty-second in the line. 6. - A bit sweet, but backward, and if I gave a direct clue it would probably be crude. 7. - Elvish ... and a trio of Beornings. 8. - Gondor calls, "The flaming cursor!" 9. - Not new, not two, not race, not safe. 10. - They could make almost a Hobbit sequel, but Warwick is necessary first. 11. - With a name, he's a stalker above all others; without his name, sing who he is. 12. - Left behind; his namesake is on the Barrow-downs though. 13. - Scrambled in an anagram: retained in the taproom. 14. - Singular, lost in Ladros, in a house by the river. 15. - Bilbo passed, and the Age removed 16. - Before they were grey, they served still. The Conspiracy (in Chapter 5) has four members: Sam, Merry, Pippin, and Fredegar Bolger, poor neglected chap. For #3, you actually have the right door! But not the right answer. :) And no on Bree or the password. hS |
Ah ... the chapter number. I thought 5 was Sam, Merry, Pippin, Fredegar and Folco, then those minus Sam when Sam was terrified of being turned into a spotted toad.
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11. Eol?
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I don't think I'd count Folco as a member of the Conspiracy; if he had been, I imagine he'd have joined the others in Crickhollow.
And not Eol, I'm afraid. You're actually looking for the 'without his name' version in #11. hS |
4. Rivendell?
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Not Rivendell. The meetings, glances, and farewells are all from different people, and quite some time apart.
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Is 11 Smeagol as the nameless terror- the ghost that drank blood - and the stalker of the Ringbearer?
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Nice thought, but no. 'Sing' is relevant here.
Also I might be being a little unfair with 'stalker', but... not by much. (Serial harasser, for sure.) hS |
Daeron?
16. Gimli's socks? :D |
Is 3 something to do with sailing west, given that Sam did so 60 years after Frodo, I think?
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I thought the answer to 1 was orgy for a moment..though 4 indicated letter in answer...eep
On safer ground, I will hazard for 5, Imrahil, wind prince of Dol Amroth |
8. Red Arrow?
Could 4 be the Grey Havens? Ist meeting of Gandalf and Cirdan .... |
Weird thought - 11. Tom Bombadil?
Edit: never mind, missed some of your comments on that one :o |
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Is 4 Cerin Amroth?
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Wow, lots to get through here!
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I think I got them all? hS |
I'm going to guess...
14: Eilinel (although 'singular' eludes me here) 16: The púkel-men (This is what happens when I return to the Downs - I get no work done. :D) |
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(You're telling me! I'm practically new here and I keep writing crosswords instead of working... :D) hS |
Ha, is 16 the Oathbreakers then?
14 could also be Beren, who never became the Lord of Ladros and died in Tol Galen... and only had a singular hand. :D |
Neither of those either, I'm afraid.
Ladros itself is not actually involved in the Ladros answer. :) hS |
So hard! :D
Does 16 have something to do with the Drúedain? |
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The nearly last farewell I'm thinking of was near Bombadil's, but I can't remember exactly where.
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I'd go with 'nearby' rather than 'almost'.
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Maybe the Tower Hills? Sam's last farewell to Elanor.
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12. Merry, who was left behind? There is a Merrymatt on the Downs.
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I see where the thought came from, but no.
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Is 16 just the Havens?
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Does 15 have something to do with Old Took? Bilbo passed his age near the turn of the Age.
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Not the Havens, I'm afraid, but:
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There's also the Grey Company - whose passing the Púkel-Men witnessed - but I can't quite connect it to the clue. Could 2 be the Bridge of Khazad-dûm? |
The Grey Company is the right people - but not the right answer. Check the first word of the clue. :)
Not the bridge for #2; this is another clue with both a straight(ish) and a cryptic part. hS |
Rangers?
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I mean, you could have been more specific, but I'm not going to quibble:
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Does 10 refer to Warwick Davies, who played the hero in the film 'Willow' - which featured many little people?
Could the answer be Willow(s)? |
I *meant* the northern ones.
Mablung has never even glimpsed the Watford Gap! And as for trying to get decent mushy peas out of Damrod .... |
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All Rangers of the North are Grand-Masters of Eckythump, of course.
… Willow men? … Although, having looked up the film, Willow and his friends are DWARVES? |
To be more precise, I mean that the word 'willow' is in the answer. :)
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