Well, Mrs Bilbo could be Mary Morstan, Watson's screen wife. The actress was his real wife in real life, but Mary wasn't.

Unfortunately, Sherlock is a TV show, not a movie.

Could say the same of Homily Clock, wife of Pod Clock in The Borrowers ... played by Ian Holm and his then wife, Penelope Wilton.

That was a TV show too ....

Putting it on the page:

None of them; all of the remaining answers are directly a part of Middle-earth. I only snuck in Evangeline Lilly's name because I needed the E, and she was playing a Middle-earth character at the time. :)

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Hang on ... the password isn't FEMALE, is it?

1. FREDA - Morwen's daughter, sent away - A hobbit disenvowelled by everything - First contact (for many)
2. E - Lorien's unwitting betrayer - The classic dawn bird - The world turned upside-down
3. M - Mrs. Bilbo - A shiny rock, or perhaps a bit more like me - The first of its kind (ever)
4. A - The only female Nazgul - I'm out, I tripped (accented) - Under the iron crown
5. L - The princess of the shore - A Latin rock, an Elvish maid - Darkness in the darkness
6. EVANGELINE LILLY'S TAURIEL - Legolas' first best friend, but in real life... - Not a Maia, not a flower, and definitely not genderbent Orome - Just below Erebor

It is! Very well done.

So finding the rest of the answers should be simple. :D

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Did LUTHIEN and Beren live on a kind of island (which would have a shore) when they were in the Land of the Dead that Live?

And wasn't she darkness going into darkness as Thuringwethil into Angband?

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And did ESTE ever accidentally betray Irmo/Lorien?

#4 Must be Adûnaphel, name given to the only female Nazgûl according to Iron Crown Enterprises. (Is the middle bit supposed to be a sound alike for "I'm down, I fell")?

Neither Luthien or Este (though you're right, Luthien and Beren lived around Tol... Galen, I think?), but...

1. FREDA - Morwen's daughter, sent away - A hobbit disenvowelled by everything - First contact (for many) (LotR: TTT (Movie))
2. E - Lorien's unwitting betrayer - The classic dawn bird - The world turned upside-down
3. M - Mrs. Bilbo - A shiny rock, or perhaps a bit more like me - The first of its kind (ever)
4. ADUNAPHEL - The only female Nazgul - I'm out, I tripped (accented) - Under the iron crown (Iron Crown Enterprises' MERP)
5. L - The princess of the shore - A Latin rock, an Elvish maid - Darkness in the darkness
6. EVANGELINE LILLY'S TAURIEL - Legolas' first best friend, but in real life... - Not a Maia, not a flower, and definitely not genderbent Orome - Just below Erebor (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)

Nerwen, that's exactly the soundalike I was going for. ^_^

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I looked up shiny rocks. There is a shiny mineral called Magnetite.

Not that that helps at all!

Could we have a clue, please?

#2: For 'classic' you might want to read 'classical'.
#3: Have you worked out what the third part of the clues is telling you about yet?
#5: You might have more luck finding her mother, if you can work out her title.

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PS: No, it's not magnetite. The rock I'm thinking of can actually be transparent under some circumstances.

It looks as if the third part of the clues refers to the source- is that right?

And the third part of E seems to suggest the War of Wrath, but Este was a wrong guess and Eonwe is male.

There's ELBERETH ....

Or is it ELWING, in bird form?

Yep. And the sources listed so far have something in common - or, more precisely, there's something (someone?) they don't have in common.

I'm afraid not, though frankly wrath is a fair response to this character. For 'source', you're not looking for events in Middle-earth...

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Is the "something" Tolkien- i.e. they're all adaptations?

Assuming I'm right about that, I believe the "princess of the shore" is Lithariel from "Shadow of Mordor".

Precisely. Well, adaptations or 'inspired by's, since...

Yep!

1. FREDA - Morwen's daughter, sent away - A hobbit disenvowelled by everything - First contact (for many) (LotR: TTT (Movie))
2. E - Lorien's unwitting betrayer - The classic dawn bird - The world turned upside-down
3. M - Mrs. Bilbo - A shiny rock, or perhaps a bit more like me - The first of its kind (ever)
4. ADUNAPHEL - The only female Nazgul - I'm out, I tripped (accented) - Under the iron crown (Iron Crown Enterprises' MERP)
5. LITHARIEL - The princess of the shore - A Latin rock, an Elvish maid - Darkness in the darkness (Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor)
6. EVANGELINE LILLY'S TAURIEL - Legolas' first best friend, but in real life... - Not a Maia, not a flower, and definitely not genderbent Orome - Just below Erebor (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)

I'm actually playing this at the moment. Provided you ignore the entire plot, it's not too bad... :D Lithariel's first appearance was the moment I turned round and announced "I've just been recruited by an elf princess from Nurn." She's not actually an elf, so goodness knows what she's doing with that name...

Anyway, Lithariel, lith + iel.

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Maybe they don't have Tolkien in common, at least directly?

Although you said there were no more 'film' clues.

There was an invented elf-maiden in the LOTR musical, called ELRANIEN.

She didn't betray Lorien, though.

What is Shadow of Mordor?

(The unedited version of this post was a cross-post).

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Is 'lith' elvish for something?

Precisely. :)

I think I said there was one left, actually.

:O I forgot about the musical! I'd much have preferred her to Evangeline Lilly.

A 2014 'action-adventure' computer game; by and large it's an orc-killing simulator. It's set (brace yourself) in Mordor just after Sauron returns and turfs out the Gondorian settlers... after being driven from Dol Guldur in The Hobbit. The entire second half is set in the lush green lands around the Sea of Nurn.

You play as an undead Gondorian ranger possessed by the spirit of Celebrimbor. Who's blatantly evil, and according to one set of missions, may have stormed Mordor back in the Second Age, stolen the Ring from Sauron, and attempted to take the whole place over.

Oh, and Gollum shows up. He likes ghost!Celebrimbor.

I told you you had to ignore the plot... :D

'Lith' is from the Latin/Greek for stone; it shows up a lot in words like monolith, neolithic, lithosphere, and indeed (chemist!) lithium.

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The first of its kind ever - possibly referring to the first adaptations?

In a search for answers I found this, where I discovered a great amount of disturbing details about the plots of early film attempts. Can't see a Mrs. Bilbo though.

Tolkien thought of giving Bilbo a wife, of course, and making the hero of LOTR his son, but decided against it. AFAIK, he never created a wife for him or gave her a name.

I believe years ago there was a computer game of The Hobbit. Was there a Mrs Bilbo in that?

There is a relevant item mentioned on that page, actually, though you'll need to find a more detailed account.

I've played that! It's actually quite good, if you can get over the graphics; definitely more faithful to the plot than the movies were. Anyway, no, there's no Mrs. Bilbo there. :)

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Cursory research suggests #3 refers to the 1966 "Hobbit" animated short, where it seems Bilbo did have a love interest, whose name I haven't been able to discover. "Moonstone", perhaps?

Edit: No, it was "Princess Mika". Mica for the rock, then- but how on Earth is that "more like you", Huey? Is your real name Mike?

1. FREDA - Morwen's daughter, sent away - A hobbit disenvowelled by everything - First contact (for many) (LotR: TTT (Movie))
2. E - Lorien's unwitting betrayer - The classic dawn bird - The world turned upside-down
3. MIKA MILOVANA - Mrs. Bilbo - A shiny rock, or perhaps a bit more like me - The first of its kind (ever) (The 1966 Hobbit film)
4. ADUNAPHEL - The only female Nazgul - I'm out, I tripped (accented) - Under the iron crown (Iron Crown Enterprises' MERP)
5. LITHARIEL - The princess of the shore - A Latin rock, an Elvish maid - Darkness in the darkness (Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor)
6. EVANGELINE LILLY'S TAURIEL - Legolas' first best friend, but in real life... - Not a Maia, not a flower, and definitely not genderbent Orome - Just below Erebor (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)

I never said it might be "more like you" - I said "more like ME", because 'Mika' looks like it could well be pronounced 'MEE-ka'. :D

Tolkien Gateway says Princess Mika (who does indeed marry Bilbo, in the first ever Tolkien movie - the 12 minute 1966 Hobbit adaptation) was named after someone's daughter, but given Pervina's mention of Princess Mee, I'm left wondering if she might be another inspiration.

'Milovana' (surely the least Tolkienian name ever to appear in a Tolkien adaptation) is apparently Czech, which actually takes us fairly geographically close to the final answer, #2, which you won't find on the usual Tolkien wikis. It is on Wikipedia, though.

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Nerwen's answer sounds pretty convincing, so ... the remaining E clue.

The hint that classic could be 'classical' had me looking at operas ... but I could only find Vogel ... and lark is out ('Lark Ascending' is the most famous piece of classical music I know that refers to a bird).

Maybe we need to look for a bird from Greek or Roman mythology, then.

EDIT: OK, scrap that. Unless the Czech Republic is close enough to Italy and Greece.

EDIT 2: Ah ... the cryptic 2nd bit could be from classical mythology, perhaps.

In fairness it's closer to either of them than to where I'm actually thinking of. My Eastern European geography is apparently quite compressed.

I'm probably more into paleontology than mythology, as it happens. :)

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There is Aethon, sometimes written as Ethon in English. It's the name of the eagle who tormented Prometheus (by eating his liver every night, I believe. Not sure if Chianti was readily available then).

Of course, who could forget Lorien's betrayal at the hands... claws? ...wing-claws? of Archaeopteryx?

The eagle has a name?! ... wait, it's Greek mythology, everything has a name. (Not Ethon.)

Silly Nerwen; Archaeopteryx means 'ancient wing', not 'dawn bird'.

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I am aware of that, but figuratively one might call it a "dawn bird". That was of course not a serious guess, anyway.:p

Gosh, wasn't it? :D It may have been a serious hint, though.

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EOS.

A Greek goddess known as dawn bird, according to Wikipedia (so it must be right, yeah? :D)

Always was curious how accurately the Greeks picked the organ for eagle dinner. The liver is practically the only organ that has enough regenerative capacity to regrow back to near its proper size from a small piece. Not over a single day, of course, but titans are titans.


Aside from PTERO, there is POULI as a word that means "bird", but I can't think of prehistoric or ME creatures that have this part.

I've nothing to add to that, G55, but would like you to know how much I love your cheery daffodil avatar. Yes, I know it's not new. I've just never said it before. ;)

Thanks! :) I'm not particularly into daffodils, but when I was making the avatar I was looking for something vaguely Lorien-like to match my name, and there it was. At this point I'm rather attached to it as my alternate identity appearance.

Eo- occurs as a prefix in the names of various prehistoric animals, so that could be Huey's (possibly) "serious hint". Maybe we should be looking for a Polish dinosaur named Eo-something... though what could that have to do with Lorien?

Many Eorling names begin with EO, but when they could have betrayed Lorien - and with a female? Were there any shieldmaidens coming down with the Eotheod to the battle on Celebrant? That one involved Lorien too if I recall.

It has to be from a non-Tolkienien source.

Eo- is a lovely prefix for dawn (it occurs in Eohippus, the Dawn Horse, which was about the size of a large dog). I'm not sure I know of Eos specifically as a bird, though - my understanding was that she was simply The Dawn. (Nor is the bird Pouli; Eopouli would be excessively non-Tolkienian.)

Oh, and you want to be a bit further east than Poland. ^_^

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PS: Fascinating trivia about the liver! Thanks, G55.

Germany?

ELVELLON have an album called 'Until Dawn,' and they're all birds.

:D

Their music sounds really good, anyway. I couldn't find a direct Tolkien link, but maybe I didn't look hard enough.

Nah, Belarus.

East, Pervinca.:p

Huey does seem to be telling us to look for Eo-something...