06-03-2017, 04:43 PM | #421 |
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One of the three missing letters has not been suggested in any of your guesses.
Both of the others have been suggested, but not in the same guess.
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06-12-2017, 09:03 AM | #422 |
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Eh, I'm stumped.
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Quote:
It's more to do with its phase than its shape (despite the obvious connection between them).
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06-24-2017, 01:00 PM | #424 |
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Would you like another hint?
I think I've got one that would help a lot, and still not give it away without having to think about it.
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Sure, I'll take it.
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Expressed by its age.
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"I sat at night by the waters of Anduin, in the grey dark
under the young pale moon, watching the ever-moving stream; and the sad reeds were rustling. So do we ever watch the shores nigh Osgiliath, which our enemies now partly hold, and issue from it to harry our lands. But that night all the world slept at the midnight hour." Young? I don't think I'd have ever gotten that without the last hint.
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I was afraid that you might not
You were all thinking about a standard consonant for the first letter, then getting the whole sounding of the word completely wrong. "Y" is a funny letter - sort of a vowel, often functioning as a vowel, but in some words functioning more like a consonant ... (When I learned phonetics, they named it a "half-vowel".) But with that hint, the quote is finally solved! You're next
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It wasn't so much the letters. Once I knew we were describing "moon" - I locked into more familiar terms for it.
OK - will try to post something before too long.
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Well done! Never would have guessed it, not even with the hints.
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Doing it in English helps me a lot, I think.
I've been slow with the next post. Hopefully this weekend. Not as filled up as the last two were.
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LA-ZY!
At Yellowstone now. Will redouble my efforts when I get home.
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"T_e/_a_s/_r_/d_r_/,/a_d/_h_r_/i_/n_/h_p_/f_r/_e_/,
/f_r/_h_/F_i_h_u_/a_e/_e_/./T_e_e_o_e/_/a_/m_n_e_/t_/t_y /_h_t/_o_n_e_/w_i_h/_u_/f_r_f_t_e_/E_r_n_i_/t_o_/o_/o_d/, /_o/_a_l/_n_o/_h_/W_s_/,/b_/t_e_e/_a_/o_/n_/, /a_d/_o/_p_a_/t_/t_e/_a_a_/,/e_e_/t_/M_n_e/_i_s_l_/, /i_/m_y/_e/,/a_d/_e_e_c_/h_s/_i_/e_e/_l_/i_/l_s_." Sorry so slow about this. Hope there's still players around.
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and there is no hope for her
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"her" not correct - the rest is good.
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The/_a_s/are/d_r_/,/and there is no hope for/men/,
/for/the/F_i_h_u_/are/_e_/./Therefore/I/am/minded/to/try /that/_o_n_e_/which/our/forefather/Earendil/took/of/old/, /to/call/unto/the/West/,/be/there/yay/or/no/, /and/to/_p_a_/to/the/Valar/,/even/to/Manwe/himself/, /if/may/be/,/and/beseech/his/aid/ere/all/is/lost. It's possible that I have solved most of the quote now - and I still have no idea who said it or in what context. Or maybe I can work out something after all? Some descendant of Earendil - but not Elrond or Aragorn. Perhaps someone in Numenor? Didn't Elendil's father, Amandil, try to go on a journey before they left Numenor? Could he have said this?
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Great job, Varna! Most words are correct - three wrong words in the fourth line: 'call' / 'unto' / 'yay'
Yes - Amandil was the speaker!
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/to/sail/into/the/West/,/be/there/way/or/no/,
Hmmm - interesting that I managed to work out logically who the speaker could have been
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Yes.
Both "sail" and "into" are correct, but "way" is not.
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