DOTARD: One who might perform late in French?
URCHINS: Boys with fiery facial features?
NINNYHAMMER: Grond used as a crusher of nincompoops?
RAGTAG: Scrap of cloth and playground game return for this one.

THEME: TOLKIENIAN INSULTS

Feanor certainly doesn't always put those grey cells to the best use. So yes, I agree with you.

And now ... over to you!

This password idea was given to me by one of Nerwen's remarks during her last riddle.


1. Messed up gaiety? Endlessly sick? Something you wear? See it!
2. People who are up to no good? Not in this case!
3. Two drinks form a flower.
4. A movie singer follows direction, and it appears!
5. Extremely dry with a vowel shift? Endless aid? Gather these for her.

3. Brandywine?

1. Messed up gaiety? Endlessly sick? Something you wear? See it!
2. People who are up to no good? Not in this case!
BRANDYWINE: Two drinks form a flower.
4. A movie singer follows direction, and it appears!
5. Extremely dry with a vowel shift? Endless aid? Gather these for her.

5. Aredhel.

Arid - i + e + hel(p).

1. Messed up gaiety? Endlessly sick? Something you wear? See it!
2. People who are up to no good? Not in this case!
BRANDYWINE: Two drinks form a flower.
4. A movie singer follows direction, and it appears!
AREDHEL: Extremely dry with a vowel shift? Endless aid? Gather these for her.

2. Outlaws? (Turin & Co?)

Doesn't fit with the theme. Think about your favorite character instead.

Ah, ok.

Conspirators?

1. Messed up gaiety? Endlessly sick? Something you wear? See it!
CONSPIRATORS: People who are up to no good? Not in this case!
BRANDYWINE: Two drinks form a flower.
4. A movie singer follows direction, and it appears!
AREDHEL: Extremely dry with a vowel shift? Endless aid? Gather these for her.

All I can currently see is 'Voila!' ;)

When in doubt, turn to Elvish. ;)

That's what I was thinking. ;)

I think I need to figure out the theme first, though.

I am sure you will figure it out. :)

Theme hint:

Hmmm ...

Is it saving/sparing people? The Brandywine took Frodo's parents but spared him? He wasn't in the boat, though.

The Brandywine saves them from the Nazgul?

1. ERECH is an anagram of 'cheer '

Does the Stone of Erech finally free the Dead?

I can only offer S for endless 'sick,' though. :(

It is saving people, or rather protecting them.

Mithril coat! MIRTH, and you wear it! And has the first two letters of ILL in it.

MITHRIL COAT: 1. Messed up gaiety? Endlessly sick? Something you wear? See it!
CONSPIRATORS: People who are up to no good? Not in this case!
BRANDYWINE: Two drinks form a flower.
4. A movie singer follows direction, and it appears!
AREDHEL: Extremely dry with a vowel shift? Endless aid? Gather these for her.

Password: MOINA (= safe, secure).

Oh ... and N + ENYA = NENYA, which protects Lothlorien.

Also, was my reasoning for BRANDYWINE correct - protecting the hobbits from the Nazgul?

Yes and yes and yes.

MITHRIL COAT: Messed up gaiety? Endlessly sick? Something you wear? See it!
CONSPIRATORS: People who are up to no good? Not in this case!
BRANDYWINE: Two drinks form a flower.
NENYA: A movie singer follows direction, and it appears!
AREDHEL: Extremely dry with a vowel shift? Endless aid? Gather these for her.


THEME: PEOPLE/PLACES/THINGS THAT PROTECTED SOMETHING/SOMEONE FROM HARM

Over to you.

Great clues, Urwen, and a very nice idea for a theme. :)

Here you are, then:

1. Edro! Or is it in Mordor's name?
2. Rossetti’s gentle exhortation. Or does it concern a looking-glass?
3. Uttered in Lothlorien. ‘Tis a winding path.
4. To do this or not is the question, thought Iluvatar.
5. I wonder, perplexed, at this urgency!
6. Pinter’s, Werenowska’s or Buffini’s? Whichever! Uttered by one at the Morannon.

EDIT: SO SORRY! I HAD MISSED OUT CLUE 1!

3. "EA!" is glossed as "be" or "to be" (I guess it's an imperative)

5. Harold Pinter is a playwright; I vaguely remember doing something of his, but can't place what. It appears Nicola Werenowska is too, and they each have a play called "SILENCE"; I'm guessing that's a Gollum line.

hS

1. Edro! Or is it in Mordor's name?
2. Rossetti’s gentle exhortation. Or does it concern a looking-glass?
3. Uttered in Lothlorien. ‘Tis a winding path.
EA! To do this or not is the question, thought Iluvatar.
5. I wonder, perplexed, at this urgency!
SILENCE! Pinter’s, Werenowska’s or Buffini’s? Whichever! Uttered by one at the Morannon.

So has Buffini ... the only one I've seen! Great play. I only found out the other two had written a play with the same name when I googled to check the author.

'Silence!' is what Gandalf sternly says to Pippin when he springs forward with a cry of grief at the sight of Frodo's mithril coat. That is at the Morannon, I think?

First letters. Red when I have time. Lunch going cold!

EDIT: SO SORRY! I HAD MISSED OUT CLUE 1!

ANOTHER EDIT: hS, maybe you studied The Caretaker, or The Homecoming?

All-New All-Different #1: "OPEN! In the name of Mordor!"

Are we on exclamations in general, or specifically imperatives?

hS

Trickssssssy, trying to get two guessesses in one possssst. ;)

Only kidding.

The latter.

OPEN! Edro! Or is it in Mordor's name?
2. Rossetti’s gentle exhortation. Or does it concern a looking-glass?
3. Uttered in Lothlorien. ‘Tis a winding path.
EA! To do this or not is the question, thought Iluvatar.
5. I wonder, perplexed, at this urgency!
SILENCE! Pinter’s, Werenowska’s or Buffini’s? Whichever! Uttered by one at the Morannon.

It's imperatives. :)

2. Amend?

Nope.

What does Rosetti clue mean, then?

Well, first tell me where you got 'Amend' from, and then I'll tell you if it's the right Rossetti.

From here: https://books.google.rs/books?id=Qjc...tation&f=false

Well, right family. But that link mentions more than one of them.

The one you want is female.

Christina Rossetti?

Yes. One of my favourite poets. But the clue refers to one of her most famous poems, and also to a particular Tolkien thing/happening.

Rise?

That's not a poem I've heard of.