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Urwen 03-01-2020 09:28 AM

15. John Le Mesurier


I am on a roll. :D

Urwen 03-01-2020 09:31 AM

1. Michael Hordern.

Urwen 03-01-2020 09:33 AM

Now I shall wait to see what's correct and what isn't before I continue.

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 10:24 AM

MICHAEL HORDERN (Gandalf): The first – an archangel – who’s guarding a vase?
2. The second – spends more than an age at his house?
CHRISTOPHER FAIRBANK (Shagrat): The third graced our screens in ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet!’
ROBERT STEPHENS (Aragorn): The fourth was a Prince on a Veronese set.
5. The fifth, though no hobbit, loves victuals and drink,
PAULINE LETTS (Ioreth): The sixth – Walford matriarch allows us – I think!
7. The seventh played quack to Ross Poldark’s old flame -
8. The eighth, (flag the second), definitive Thain!*
LEONARD FENTON (Daddy Twofoot): The ninth, (flag the fourth), a Walfordian quack -
10. The tenth – Tucker’s sister? (Once a river flows back).
11. In eleven, a saint meets a foundling most poor -
WILLIAM NIGHY: In twelve, it seems Shakespeare’s nearby, but wherefore? **
13. Thirteen is a saint, and a visionary too, **
MARION DIAMOND (Galadriel): Fourteen is a maid, and a gemstone most true.
15. Fifteen: Eighties game, plus a bounder and measure, **
DAVID COLLINGS (Legolas): Sixteen plays the son of an elf who loves treasure.
17. For seventeen, no spade? Petrified, but not dead!
JENNY LEE (Shelob): Eighteen, (flag the sixth), Attercop! Poison-head!
19. The nineteenth, twice queenly, a pen or car-stopper?
20. With twenty as glue, the tale won’t come a cropper! **
ANTHONY HYDE (Eomer): Twenty-one is no Jekyll. On horseback he jogs,
RICHARD O'CALLAGHAN (Merry): Twenty-two steers a barge, or plays fair Lewis Boggs!
23. This sibilant genius is our twenty-three - ***
24. Two dozen! - a Potter, and Old English sea!

The whole means a drama, of quality rare,
Where thesps and their ilk show considerable flair!
I left out the ‘sounds likes’ to make it flow better,
So - enjoy the clues! (From Pervinca, your setter).

( * Well, future Thain).
(** Flag the second).
(*** Flag the third).

THEME: THE BBC 'LORD OF THE RINGS' RADIO DRAMATISATION.

You *are* on a roll, but a very brief explanation of the answers would be nice.

Yes to all except John Le Mesurier.

Urwen 03-01-2020 10:31 AM

I think you forgot to put in 17.....

Urwen 03-01-2020 10:33 AM

Password: Microphones in Middle-Earth?

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen (Post 721384)
I think you forgot to put in 17.....

No I didn't. You gave the wrong answer.

Password now correct, following your edit.

Urwen 03-01-2020 10:46 AM

24. Harry (obvious why) + Holm (old English for 'sea') = Harry Holm.

Urwen 03-01-2020 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took (Post 721386)
No I didn't. You gave the wrong answer.

Password now correct, following your edit.


You said 'Yes to all except John Le Mesurier' and so I assumed 17 was correct as well....

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 10:54 AM

MICHAEL HORDERN (Gandalf): The first – an archangel – who’s guarding a vase?
I: The second – spends more than an age at his house?
CHRISTOPHER FAIRBANK (Shagrat): The third graced our screens in ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet!’
ROBERT STEPHENS (Aragorn): The fourth was a Prince on a Veronese set.
O: The fifth, though no hobbit, loves victuals and drink,
PAULINE LETTS (Ioreth): The sixth – Walford matriarch allows us – I think!
H: The seventh played quack to Ross Poldark’s old flame -
?O: The eighth, (flag the second), definitive Thain!*
LEONARD FENTON (Daddy Twofoot): The ninth, (flag the fourth), a Walfordian quack -
E: The tenth – Tucker’s sister? (Once a river flows back).
S: In eleven, a saint meets a foundling most poor -

WILLIAM NIGHY: In twelve, it seems Shakespeare’s nearby, but wherefore? **
?N: Thirteen is a saint, and a visionary too, **

MARION DIAMOND (Galadriel): Fourteen is a maid, and a gemstone most true.
?I: Fifteen: Eighties game, plus a bounder and measure, **
DAVID COLLINGS (Legolas): Sixteen plays the son of an elf who loves treasure.
D: For seventeen, no spade? Petrified, but not dead!
JENNY LEE (Shelob): Eighteen, (flag the sixth), Attercop! Poison-head!
E: The nineteenth, twice queenly, a pen or car-stopper?
-
?E:
With twenty as glue, the tale won’t come a cropper! **
ANTHONY HYDE (Eomer): Twenty-one is no Jekyll. On horseback he jogs,
RICHARD O'CALLAGHAN (Merry): Twenty-two steers a barge, or plays fair Lewis Boggs!
??T: This sibilant genius is our twenty-three - ***
HARRY HOLM (Elanor): Two dozen! - a Potter, and Old English sea!

The whole means a drama, of quality rare,
Where thesps and their ilk show considerable flair!
I left out the ‘sounds likes’ to make it flow better,
So - enjoy the clues! (From Pervinca, your setter).

( * Well, future Thain).
(** Flag the second).
(*** Flag the third).

THEME: THE BBC 'LORD OF THE RINGS' RADIO DRAMATISATION.

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen (Post 721388)
You said 'Yes to all except John Le Mesurier' and so I assumed 17 was correct as well....

Ah, sorry. I must have missed that one.

I've put in Harry Holm (Elanor) now.

Urwen 03-01-2020 11:13 AM

8. John McAndrew.

Urwen 03-01-2020 11:18 AM

10. Elin (Nile backwards) Jenkins.

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 11:19 AM

MICHAEL HORDERN (Gandalf): The first – an archangel – who’s guarding a vase?
I: The second – spends more than an age at his house?
CHRISTOPHER FAIRBANK (Shagrat): The third graced our screens in ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet!’
ROBERT STEPHENS (Aragorn): The fourth was a Prince on a Veronese set.
O: The fifth, though no hobbit, loves victuals and drink,
PAULINE LETTS (Ioreth): The sixth – Walford matriarch allows us – I think!
H: The seventh played quack to Ross Poldark’s old flame -
JOHN MCANDREW (Pippin): The eighth, (flag the second), definitive Thain!*
LEONARD FENTON (Daddy Twofoot): The ninth, (flag the fourth), a Walfordian quack -
ELIN JENKINS: The tenth – Tucker’s sister? (Once a river flows back).
S: In eleven, a saint meets a foundling most poor -

WILLIAM NIGHY: In twelve, it seems Shakespeare’s nearby, but wherefore? **
?N: Thirteen is a saint, and a visionary too, **

MARION DIAMOND (Galadriel): Fourteen is a maid, and a gemstone most true.
?I: Fifteen: Eighties game, plus a bounder and measure, **
DAVID COLLINGS (Legolas): Sixteen plays the son of an elf who loves treasure.
D: For seventeen, no spade? Petrified, but not dead!
JENNY LEE (Shelob): Eighteen, (flag the sixth), Attercop! Poison-head!
E: The nineteenth, twice queenly, a pen or car-stopper?
-
?E:
With twenty as glue, the tale won’t come a cropper! **
ANTHONY HYDE (Eomer): Twenty-one is no Jekyll. On horseback he jogs,
RICHARD O'CALLAGHAN (Merry): Twenty-two steers a barge, or plays fair Lewis Boggs!
??T: This sibilant genius is our twenty-three - ***
HARRY HOLM (Elanor): Two dozen! - a Potter, and Old English sea!

The whole means a drama, of quality rare,
Where thesps and their ilk show considerable flair!
I left out the ‘sounds likes’ to make it flow better,
So - enjoy the clues! (From Pervinca, your setter).

( * Well, future Thain).
(** Flag the second).
(*** Flag the third).

THEME: THE BBC 'LORD OF THE RINGS' RADIO DRAMATISATION.

Verily. And let me tell you, he really IS definitive! :)

FYI, Tucker Jenkins is an iconic character from the hugely popular British school drama, 'Grange Hill.'

Urwen 03-01-2020 11:27 AM

11: Stephen (from Saint Stephen) Thorne.

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen (Post 721394)
11: Stephen (from Saint Stephen) Thorne.

Right saint, but find a foundling.

Urwen 03-01-2020 11:31 AM

13. Andrew (a saint) + Seear (sounds like 'seer').

Urwen 03-01-2020 11:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took (Post 721395)
Right saint, but find a foundling.


https://books.google.rs/books?id=I_l...orphan&f=false


^That?

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 11:39 AM

MICHAEL HORDERN (Gandalf): The first – an archangel – who’s guarding a vase?
I: The second – spends more than an age at his house?
CHRISTOPHER FAIRBANK (Shagrat): The third graced our screens in ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet!’
ROBERT STEPHENS (Aragorn): The fourth was a Prince on a Veronese set.
O: The fifth, though no hobbit, loves victuals and drink,
PAULINE LETTS (Ioreth): The sixth – Walford matriarch allows us – I think!
H: The seventh played quack to Ross Poldark’s old flame -
JOHN MCANDREW (Pippin): The eighth, (flag the second), definitive Thain!*
LEONARD FENTON (Daddy Twofoot): The ninth, (flag the fourth), a Walfordian quack -
ELIN JENKINS (Eowyn): The tenth – Tucker’s sister? (Once a river flows back).
S: In eleven, a saint meets a foundling most poor -

WILLIAM NIGHY (Sam): In twelve, it seems Shakespeare’s nearby, but wherefore? **
ANREW SEEAR (Faramir): Thirteen is a saint, and a visionary too, **

MARION DIAMOND (Galadriel): Fourteen is a maid, and a gemstone most true.
?I: Fifteen: Eighties game, plus a bounder and measure, **
DAVID COLLINGS (Legolas): Sixteen plays the son of an elf who loves treasure.
DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE (Gimli): For seventeen, no spade? Petrified, but not dead!
JENNY LEE (Shelob): Eighteen, (flag the sixth), Attercop! Poison-head!
E: The nineteenth, twice queenly, a pen or car-stopper?
-
?E:
With twenty as glue, the tale won’t come a cropper! **
ANTHONY HYDE (Eomer): Twenty-one is no Jekyll. On horseback he jogs,
RICHARD O'CALLAGHAN (Merry): Twenty-two steers a barge, or plays fair Lewis Boggs!
??T: This sibilant genius is our twenty-three - ***
HARRY HOLM (Elanor): Two dozen! - a Potter, and Old English sea!

The whole means a drama, of quality rare,
Where thesps and their ilk show considerable flair!
I left out the ‘sounds likes’ to make it flow better,
So - enjoy the clues! (From Pervinca, your setter).

( * Well, future Thain).
(** Flag the second).
(*** Flag the third).

THEME: THE BBC 'LORD OF THE RINGS' RADIO DRAMATISATION.

Andrew Seear, the definitive Faramir.

And Douglas Livingstone, the definitive Gimli.

Yes, this dramatisation *is* that good.

Michael Hordern was the definitive Gandalf, too.

Urwen 03-01-2020 11:39 AM

17. Douglas Livingstone (Living+stone)

Urwen 03-01-2020 11:44 AM

19. Elizabeth Parker (queen = Elizabeth, car-stopper/pen brand = parker)

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen (Post 721399)
17. Douglas Livingstone (Living+stone)

True. Plus DUG-LESS = no spade. :D

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 11:49 AM

MICHAEL HORDERN (Gandalf): The first – an archangel – who’s guarding a vase?
I: The second – spends more than an age at his house?
CHRISTOPHER FAIRBANK (Shagrat): The third graced our screens in ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet!’
ROBERT STEPHENS (Aragorn): The fourth was a Prince on a Veronese set.
O: The fifth, though no hobbit, loves victuals and drink,
PAULINE LETTS (Ioreth): The sixth – Walford matriarch allows us – I think!
H: The seventh played quack to Ross Poldark’s old flame -
JOHN MCANDREW (Pippin): The eighth, (flag the second), definitive Thain!*
LEONARD FENTON (Daddy Twofoot): The ninth, (flag the fourth), a Walfordian quack -
ELIN JENKINS (Eowyn): The tenth – Tucker’s sister? (Once a river flows back).
S: In eleven, a saint meets a foundling most poor -

WILLIAM NIGHY (Sam): In twelve, it seems Shakespeare’s nearby, but wherefore? **
ANREW SEEAR (Faramir): Thirteen is a saint, and a visionary too, **

MARION DIAMOND (Galadriel): Fourteen is a maid, and a gemstone most true.
?I: Fifteen: Eighties game, plus a bounder and measure, **
DAVID COLLINGS (Legolas): Sixteen plays the son of an elf who loves treasure.
DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE (Gimli): For seventeen, no spade? Petrified, but not dead!
JENNY LEE (Shelob): Eighteen, (flag the sixth), Attercop! Poison-head!
ELIZABETH PARKER (Radiophonic Sound): The nineteenth, twice queenly, a pen or car-stopper?
-
?E:
With twenty as glue, the tale won’t come a cropper! **
ANTHONY HYDE (Eomer): Twenty-one is no Jekyll. On horseback he jogs,
RICHARD O'CALLAGHAN (Merry): Twenty-two steers a barge, or plays fair Lewis Boggs!
??T: This sibilant genius is our twenty-three - ***
HARRY HOLM (Elanor): Two dozen! - a Potter, and Old English sea!

The whole means a drama, of quality rare,
Where thesps and their ilk show considerable flair!
I left out the ‘sounds likes’ to make it flow better,
So - enjoy the clues! (From Pervinca, your setter).

( * Well, future Thain).
(** Flag the second).
(*** Flag the third).

THEME: THE BBC 'LORD OF THE RINGS' RADIO DRAMATISATION.

Urwen 03-01-2020 12:00 PM

23. Matthew Vine (contains MAVEN).

Urwen 03-01-2020 12:02 PM

2. Ian Holm (sounds like 'in home')

Urwen 03-01-2020 12:05 PM

7. Hugh Dickson (Behenna).

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 12:09 PM

MICHAEL HORDERN (Gandalf): The first – an archangel – who’s guarding a vase?
IAN HOLM (Frodo): The second – spends more than an age at his house?
CHRISTOPHER FAIRBANK (Shagrat): The third graced our screens in ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet!’
ROBERT STEPHENS (Aragorn): The fourth was a Prince on a Veronese set.
O: The fifth, though no hobbit, loves victuals and drink,
PAULINE LETTS (Ioreth): The sixth – Walford matriarch allows us – I think!
HUGH DICKSON (Elrond): The seventh played quack to Ross Poldark’s old flame -
JOHN MCANDREW (Pippin): The eighth, (flag the second), definitive Thain!*
LEONARD FENTON (Daddy Twofoot): The ninth, (flag the fourth), a Walfordian quack -
ELIN JENKINS (Eowyn): The tenth – Tucker’s sister? (Once a river flows back).
S: In eleven, a saint meets a foundling most poor -

WILLIAM NIGHY (Sam): In twelve, it seems Shakespeare’s nearby, but wherefore? **
ANREW SEEAR (Faramir): Thirteen is a saint, and a visionary too, **

MARION DIAMOND (Galadriel): Fourteen is a maid, and a gemstone most true.
?I: Fifteen: Eighties game, plus a bounder and measure, **
DAVID COLLINGS (Legolas): Sixteen plays the son of an elf who loves treasure.
DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE (Gimli): For seventeen, no spade? Petrified, but not dead!
JENNY LEE (Shelob): Eighteen, (flag the sixth), Attercop! Poison-head!
ELIZABETH PARKER (Radiophonic Sound): The nineteenth, twice queenly, a pen or car-stopper?
-
?E:
With twenty as glue, the tale won’t come a cropper! **
ANTHONY HYDE (Eomer): Twenty-one is no Jekyll. On horseback he jogs,
RICHARD O'CALLAGHAN (Merry): Twenty-two steers a barge, or plays fair Lewis Boggs!
??T: This sibilant genius is our twenty-three - ***
HARRY HOLM (Elanor): Two dozen! - a Potter, and Old English sea!

The whole means a drama, of quality rare,
Where thesps and their ilk show considerable flair!
I left out the ‘sounds likes’ to make it flow better,
So - enjoy the clues! (From Pervinca, your setter).

( * Well, future Thain).
(** Flag the second).
(*** Flag the third).

THEME: THE BBC 'LORD OF THE RINGS' RADIO DRAMATISATION.

No to Matthew Vine.

I hadn't heard of a foundling named Thorne.

Think of a Dickensian foundling.

Urwen 03-01-2020 12:09 PM

5. Oz Clarke (The only actor with initial 'O' I could find).

Urwen 03-01-2020 12:13 PM

Well, this is where my creative mind fails me.

Urwen 03-01-2020 12:18 PM

I see you didn't notice this:


Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen (Post 721397)


Urwen 03-01-2020 12:22 PM

15. Simon Cadell (Simon from 'Simon says' + Cad + Ell)

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen (Post 721409)
I see you didn't notice this:

See notes below the password in my last post. Stephen Thorne played Treebeard, but he isn't the answer. I'd never even heard of a foundling named Thorne until you posted that link.

EDIT: I'd forgotten about Simon Says! I was referring to an electronic memory game with four different coloured lights that flashed, (each played a different note, too). You had to repeat the sequence that Simon played exactly, or he/it made a rude noise at you

I am re-watching the hilarious 80's dramatisation of Tom Sharpe's 'Blott on the Landscape.' Simon Cadell is wonderful in it. He died tragically young. :( Celeborn in the BBC LOTR, but probably best known for playing Geoffrey Fairbrother in the holiday camp sitcom 'Hi De Hi.'

Urwen 03-01-2020 12:23 PM

There is Oliver Twist, but there is no 'Thorne' there.....

Urwen 03-01-2020 12:24 PM

Ah. Stephen Oliver.

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 12:36 PM

MICHAEL HORDERN (Gandalf): The first – an archangel – who’s guarding a vase?
IAN HOLM (Frodo): The second – spends more than an age at his house?
CHRISTOPHER FAIRBANK (Shagrat): The third graced our screens in ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet!’
ROBERT STEPHENS (Aragorn): The fourth was a Prince on a Veronese set.
OZ CLARKE (Singer): The fifth, though no hobbit, loves victuals and drink,
PAULINE LETTS (Ioreth): The sixth – Walford matriarch allows us – I think!
HUGH DICKSON (Elrond): The seventh played quack to Ross Poldark’s old flame -
JOHN MCANDREW (Pippin): The eighth, (flag the second), definitive Thain!*
LEONARD FENTON (Daddy Twofoot): The ninth, (flag the fourth), a Walfordian quack -
ELIN JENKINS (Eowyn): The tenth – Tucker’s sister? (Once a river flows back).
STEPHEN OLIVER (Music): In eleven, a saint meets a foundling most poor -

WILLIAM NIGHY (Sam): In twelve, it seems Shakespeare’s nearby, but wherefore? **
ANDREW SEEAR (Faramir): Thirteen is a saint, and a visionary too, **

MARION DIAMOND (Galadriel): Fourteen is a maid, and a gemstone most true.
SIMON CADELL (Celeborn): Fifteen: Eighties game, plus a bounder and measure, **
DAVID COLLINGS (Legolas): Sixteen plays the son of an elf who loves treasure.
DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE (Gimli): For seventeen, no spade? Petrified, but not dead!
JENNY LEE (Shelob): Eighteen, (flag the sixth), Attercop! Poison-head!
ELIZABETH PARKER (Radiophonic Sound): The nineteenth, twice queenly, a pen or car-stopper?
-
GERARD MURPHY (Narrator): With twenty as glue, the tale won’t come a cropper! **
ANTHONY HYDE (Eomer): Twenty-one is no Jekyll. On horseback he jogs,
RICHARD O'CALLAGHAN (Merry): Twenty-two steers a barge, or plays fair Lewis Boggs!
??T: This sibilant genius is our twenty-three - ***
HARRY HOLM (Elanor): Two dozen! - a Potter, and Old English sea!

The whole means a drama, of quality rare,
Where thesps and their ilk show considerable flair!
I left out the ‘sounds likes’ to make it flow better,
So - enjoy the clues! (From Pervinca, your setter).

( * Well, future Thain).
(** Flag the second).
(*** Flag the third).

THEME: THE BBC 'LORD OF THE RINGS' RADIO DRAMATISATION.

Oz Clarke now presents a programme called 'Food and Drink.' At least, when I say 'now,' I mean the last I heard, he was still the host and the programme was still running.

Two to go!

EDIT: One to go now!

Urwen 03-01-2020 12:46 PM

20. Gerard Murphy?
23. Peter Howell?

Urwen 03-01-2020 12:48 PM

They are Pinky and the Brain,
Yes, Pinky and the Brain
One is a genius
The other's insane.

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 01:06 PM

?

Gerard Murphy is correct.

Peter Howell is not.

Urwen 03-01-2020 01:09 PM

Making a joke.....

Why can't you people understand a joke? D: :(

Pervinca Took 03-01-2020 01:12 PM

I do understand jokes, when I understand their context! Just asking you to explain the connection, that's all.

Ah.

The remaining answer is the sibilant genius.


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