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1. Noble maiden comes after a note, for her great-grandmother
2. A sick rodent is in disarray, for her.
3. A returning element is inside a distance unit, slightly disturbed. She appears.
4. Sea nymphs spin around, and she is revealed.
5. A dwarf is inside a queue for her.

(Both of the people in the first clue are Tolkien characters)

1. E-arwen.

EARWEN: Noble maiden comes after a note, for her great-grandmother
2. A sick rodent is in disarray, for her.
3. A returning element is inside a distance unit, slightly disturbed. She appears.
4. Sea nymphs spin around, and she is revealed.
5. A dwarf is inside a queue for her.

4. SERINDE, from NEREIDS.

Nope, it's the other one, who is related to Anardil and Emerwen and Irimon. :p

Erendis. :)

And ELVES.

Yes to Erendis, no to the password. Last I checked, Erendis isn't an Elf.

5. LINDORIE.

DORI inside LINE.

EARWEN: Noble maiden comes after a note, for her great-grandmother
2. A sick rodent is in disarray, for her.
3. A returning element is inside a distance unit, slightly disturbed. She appears.
ERENDIS: Sea nymphs spin around, and she is revealed.
LINDORIE: A dwarf is inside a queue for her.

A sick rodent could be an ill rat, which gives almost everything we need for ITARILLE.

If the element is Iridium, and the unit is mile, then by disturbing the end of the latter we get MIRIEL.

hS

EARWEN: Noble maiden comes after a note, for her great-grandmother
2. A sick rodent is in disarray, for her.
MIRIEL: A returning element is inside a distance unit, slightly disturbed. She appears.
ERENDIS: Sea nymphs spin around, and she is revealed.
LINDORIE: A dwarf is inside a queue for her.


No to 2.

Hint: My aunt had hamsters once, and they were cute.

MITHRELLAS = ill hamster. Not an aunt of Lalaith, though.

What does EMMEL mean?

EARWEN: Noble maiden comes after a note, for her great-grandmother
MITHRELLAS: A sick rodent is in disarray, for her.
MIRIEL: A returning element is inside a distance unit, slightly disturbed. She appears.
ERENDIS: Sea nymphs spin around, and she is revealed.
LINDORIE: A dwarf is inside a queue for her.

I mean my real-life aunt. And emmel means 'mother', suprise. :p

Over to you.

Now that's an interesting word. Per Ardalambion, it's a variant spelling of an archaic poetic Sindarin word (the common word being naneth). It looks like a cognate to Quenya amillë of the same meaning, so why did Sindarin adopt an entirely different word?

Actually, naneth seems to be a Noldorin neologism, while Sindarin, Quenya, Ilkorin, Qenya, and Gnomish all use variants on amil/emil. But the Hive Mind insists on naneth as the common noun...

Tolkien fan-linguistics is weird, basically.

hS

1. Dish transforms, initially.
2. Deadly disease loses direction, note, for them.
3. Why, we hear, is a curved top unsung for them?
4. Sounds like it has very little fat on it.

Did Tolkien ever use the word 'emmel,' or has it been put together/worked out from his notes?

The first one doesn't have a straight clue.

Yes it does.

1. Dis?

No, it's the initial that transforms.

Tish? That makes no sense, though.

I am assumiing 'dish' is a straight clue, then.

It is both straight and cryptic.

Well, FISH then, which is a dish.

I feel like I should know #2, but it's escaping me. A disease that's bad enough to be described as deadly. First thoughts were smallpox and bubonic plague, but those didn't yield anything useful. Turning to modern epidemiology, there is of course cancer, which is more promising for an anagram, but still gives me no good result. In the field of infectious diseases, ebola is both sufficiently fatal and well-known to be a candidate, but again can't make the letters fit. What does make a nice anagram with the note E is SARS, but unfortunately I doubt the Downs swear check will allow me to post it. I have tried both interpretations of removing direction - taking out a letter and scrambling - but so far no luck.

What else? Lots of things are deadly, but theh don't seem like a good fit for various reasons. Organ failure of any kind will kill you, but unless it's due to cancer it doesn't usually get enough public attention. Lots of infectious diseases can also kill you, but they are either obscure or treatae in an otherwise healthy person and therefore are less likely to be the "deadly" culprit. Heck, diabetes is a horrible killing disease, but since insulin has become available people don't think of it that way. Stroke? Potentially anagrammable, though I wouldn't quite call it a disease in itself so much as a manifestation of disease.

I can sort of stretch Carc from cancer and Eol from ebola, but neither one fits "them". Ugh.

So no proper guesses so far, just frustrated thoughts out loud. Maybe it will help someone though.

FISH: Dish transforms, initially.
2. Deadly disease loses direction, note, for them.
3. Why, we hear, is a curved top unsung for them?
4. Sounds like it has very little fat on it.

Password: Food

Not food, but similar.

Can you guess the theme?

I assume 2 and 3 are races?

3 is.

Work out the theme ... it's like Urwen's guess at the password but more specific ... then the rest of the clues should be quite easy.

I can't think of anything else.....

What is it about the one clue guessed so far that makes it a specifically Middle-earth answer?

Riddles between Bilbo and Gollum? Except no other riddle answer begins with F.

Not riddles. Try again.

Then I give up.

Password similar to food Could be

FEED

making 4 either Dine or Dinner sounds like thin

Three is a race and the only thing I can think of is

ENT because Bent could be a curve and unsung take away the b which is a music note?

Not feed, I'm afraid.

Hint for 3: the answer is an elvish word. Not obscure. It occurs in LOTR.

Lindar (lid+something?)

I am convinced that it starts with Y, but can't make heads or tails with the rest. Yrch?